Capital and Treasury Accountant

To provide a high quality and professional financial information, support and expert advice to services and assisting them to achieve their financial objectives through being an integral part of the management team.
To ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of a suite of financial information; ensuring the financial position for your area is fully understood and reported; and to advise and constrain budget managers and holders to allow them to work within the financial parameters set.
To have line management responsibility for members of staff who support the post holder., + To demonstrate a passion for leading and managing the costing and PLICS team.
+ To be responsible for ensuring the Trust complies with NHS costing standards and delivers on the production of accurate and timely statutory costing returns and the provision of quality SLR and PLICS reporting information to internally agreed timetables.
+ To play a lead role in ensuring Costing, SLR and PLICS are integrated into the duties of the Senior Management Accountant., + To produce financial information and advice for own area with particular emphasis on completeness, accuracy and timeliness.
+ The detailed production and review of the monthly budget statements, variance and trend analysis, identification of potential financial issues/risks and working with the division to determine and implement corrective action. Ensuring all accruals, prepayments are correctly accounted for.
+ To produce a robust monthly financial forecast for the area of responsibility in conjunction with the relevant Budget holders, to continually review forecasts and highlighting any material changes in a timely manner.
+ To produce a monthly financial performance report for division that takes into account activity, income & expenditure, CIP progress, forecasts and risks.
+ Co-ordination, production and or review on an annual basis of the budgets for own area to ensure that the budgets identified are a fair reflection of the resources required for the financial year concerned to link into the Annual planning process of the Directorate.
+ To take a lead responsibility for the output of Reference Cost and SLR data for own Service Area and the wider Derbyshire Community Health Services. Work alongside the Lead Senior Management Accountant for Costing to promote and embed the process both within the Finance Department and within their own Service Area to ensure a continual improvement in the accuracy of the data. Proactively use the costing information (Service Line Reporting) to benchmark services and as a tool to determine value for money and to drive out inefficiencies.
+ To act as a key member of the Divisions' Senior Management Team and contribute proactively to the decision making process. This will include attending regular meetings with service heads where highly complex financial matters will be discussed.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.
During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care., Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.
We deliver patient care through 11 community hospitals, 4 minor injury units, 29 health centres and a learning disability centre. Another key part of our service is out in the community where we care for people in their own homes via therapists, health visitors and district nurses, and promoting public health in the wider community. As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.
DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.

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Our vision "to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work"
Our values:
1) To get the basics right
2) To act with compassion and respect
3) To make a difference
4) To value and develop teamwork
5) To value everyone's contribution because everyone matters

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.