Trainee Management Accountant

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who will provide support to the Finance Business Partner for the MEDicine Care Care Group and provide high quality financial management information and advice to the Care Group at at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

You will be a compassionate, accountable individual who treats all colleagues, patients and service users with respect and seeks to deliver excellence in their role. You will share the Trust values and be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

This is a really interesting and varied role where you will have a lot of opportunity to work closely with service managers and senior clinicians to support them in delivering the Trusts objectives.

As a Finance team we actively support those that are studying for accountancy qualifications and potential study support is available.

You will be pro-active, comfortable with working with a wide range of people from both a finance and non-finance background, and able to work autonomously. Attention to detail and an ability to work to deadlines are essential.

You will also be required to provide, interpret and advise upon good quality reliable financial information in order to facilitate sound and effective management of the Trust at all levels and to enable the Trust to operate at both operational and strategic level.

Sheffield Children's is one of three independent, specialist paediatric hospitals in the country, providing dedicated healthcare for children and young people across community, mental health and acute specialist settings.

We have three overarching aims that set the direction for the Trust in our vision "to create a healthier future for children and young people."

• Outstanding patient care
• Brilliant place to work
• Leader in children's health

Our commitment to rewarding colleagues is demonstrated through our brilliant reward and benefits offer including; generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme and access to salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and lease cars.

We are committed to supporting colleagues from different heritages and lifestyles while at work. This is supported through the offer we have in place for flexible working and the three equality network groups we have in place. Colleagues are encouraged to join these groups and request flexible working.

• Maintain the ledger by preparing and entering journals as directed by the Finance Business Partners. Ensuring all system procedures are adhered to and that information held on the finance system is accurate and the month end reporting deadline is met.
• Investigate variances from approved income and expenditure budgets as directed by the Finance Business Partners.
• Administer the finance led tasks in the Trusts vacancy control process, keeping a log of all requests, validating the source of funding for the role/variation and proactively managing each request through the process.
• Maintain the approved funded establishment for the services by updating spreadsheets and performing recalculations as and when required by the Finance Business Partners, highlighting variances against budgets.
• Meet with budget managers on a monthly basis to discuss their financial position and to provide high quality budget reports and analytical reviews to assist them in discharging their duties.
• Maintain a record of adjustments to Care Group budgets for budget manager’s information and to help ensure that where any new funding has been allocated part-year that this is adjusted to allocate the full-year budget in the following financial year.
• Assist with any work required as part of in-year non recurrent bids or business cases as directed by the Finance Business Partners and the Head of Financial Management.
• Provide ad-hoc costings to managers as required. This requires a knowledge of the payroll rates and allowances for a range of staff in addition to a knowledge of the applicable rates of superannuation and employers’ national insurance contributions which need to be kept up to date.
• Raise invoices for Trust to Trust Services and Service Level Agreement Income, responding to queries arising where appropriate. Review invoices received for services provided to the Trust, ensuring they are accurate, all inaccurate invoices should be barred and held and a satisfactory explanation and resolution sought.
• Collate activity information for cost centres as directed by the Finance Business Partners for use by the Principal Income and Cost Accountant in the production of Reference Costs information and PLICS.
• Support the Finance Business Partners with the development of Service Line Reports by inputting monthly support service recharges. Annually to provide data to assist with the formation of activity plans and unit cost for such services, plus the uploading of phased income and expenditure budgets.
• Assist the Finance Business Partners / Principal Income and Cost Accountant / Principal Accountant (Financial Accounts) in compiling and collating data needed for statutory returns and requests for information as required, including Freedom of Information Requests.
• Support the Head of Financial Management in the production of the monthly finance report to Trust Board and TEG by providing appendices in tables and graphical formats.

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert atCatherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

• Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
• Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
• Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
• Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care