Head of Management Accounts

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Finance senior management team as a Head of Management Accounts, at Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS FT. We are looking for a forward thinking, highly motivated qualified accountant to lead our Management Accounts function, which includes responsibility for financial planning, financial reporting and costing.

We are looking for someone who shares the Trusts values and works well with a wide range of people to enable services to deliver high quality care for our service users. Working closely with the Deputy Director of Finance, Head of Contracts and Tender Management, Head of Procurement and Head of Financial Accounts we want the Finance department to continue to be a great place to work to enable us to business partner effectively with the rest of the organisation., The Head of Management Accounts is directly responsible for the Trust's Management Accounting function. The function has six main responsibilities:

o Ensure that the Trust's Annual and long-term Financial Plan is prepared & submitted within the required deadlines.

o Ensure accurate and relevant monthly, quarterly and annual financial monitoring information is produced to enable monitoring against this plan both within the Trust and to NHS England and other external bodies.

o Business Partnering to the organisation services and departments.

o Submission of National Cost Collection and development of Patient/Service level costing and use of benchmarking information within the organisation to enable strategy development, decision making and highlighting efficiency opportunities.

o Finance lead on Contract negotiations and management.

o Projects within Finance department

Although accountable to the Deputy Director of Finance, the post holder will be expected to work autonomously, guided by policies and professional standards.

With the current NHS financial challenge and demand increases for Mental health services you must be able to demonstrate highly developed knowledge, experience and expertise in a complex organisation with the ability to lead a team with numerous competing priorities.

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.