Management Accountant

The R&D Management Accountant is responsible for providing timely and accurate management information to the Trust's budget holders and senior management ensuring that the data is understood and used by non-finance managers allowing them to meet their own performance targets. They will work with minimal supervision, under the direction of the Finance Business Partner to carry out these duties and maintain high levels of satisfaction with a range of stakeholders, including budget holders, PIs, Researchers and colleagues around the Finance department. They will be involved to provide robust financial costing and monitoring of R&D projects undertaken within the Trust. To work closely with the Joint R&D Office at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN) and other research partners. To provide financial advice and guidance to Managers , Research Clinicians and Administrators within the Trust and its Research Partners. They will be involved to assist in production of all external R&D related reporting requirements, including financial statements to NIHR (ASTOXs) and CRN and for other research related projects.,

• Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
• Working closely with the Financial Services Team to prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance
• Producing accurate and timely budgetary control reports.
• Undertake regular meetings with budget holders, PIs and Researchers (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position
• Investigating and analysing variances from budget and reporting and explaining these to budget holders and other senior managers.
  
  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.