Senior Accountant

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive - and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you., As a Senior Accountant you will be responsible for the management and delivery of key finance processes relating to Primary Care. This will include assessing the impact of policy change and ensuring that accounting processes are aligned accordingly. Also there will be close working relationship requirements with key process suppliers such as the NHS Business Service Authority to ensure effective delivery of their services. The work will cover the key primary care finance elements of general practice, dentistry, ophthalmic and pharmacy, This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities. You will:
1. Have a CCAB qualification. The post holder will support the team to understand primary care policy and processes and provide verbal and written monthly updates to the wider primary care community.
2. Provide accounting analysis from the variety of sources within primary care to ensure stakeholders deliver within NHSE's documented policy and financial controls.
3. Support the Finance Manager to ensure the regions and local offices are fully supported to resolve operational primary care transactional issues.
4. Support the team to assess and review primary care improvements, engaging and working with colleagues to ensure best practice process adoption.
5. Support the team in a range of business initiatives and projects using strong communication skills to provide guidance on primary care operational finance delivery.

The Primary Care Operational Finance Team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is recruiting a Senior Accountant. This is a fantastic opportunity to ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget, report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year and explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money., The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
+ Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
+ Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
+ Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
+ Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
+ Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band., NHS England