R&D Management Accountant | South and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Job Purpose

To provide 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.

To 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 and colleagues around the Finance department.

• Support the Finance Business Partner, ensuring the effective provision of a comprehensive management accounting service.
• Prepare the monthly trust accounts in line with requirements as set out by the Associate Directors of Financial Services and Operational Finance.
• Produce accurate and timely budgetary control reports, and produce the directorate performance packs within the agreed timetable.
• Undertake regular meetings with budget holders (without supervision) to review accounts and support their understanding of the financial position.
• Investigate and analyse variances from budget and reporting and explain these to budget holders and other senior managers.
• Participate in the costing and pricing of the Trust’s activity.
• Review financial transactions to ensure that they have been correctly processed and recorded.
• Produce accurate year‑end forecasts.
• Produce monitoring returns to external bodies as and when required.
• Assist managers in developing business plans for their areas of responsibility.
• liaise with internal departments and external agencies to obtain relevant information in a timely manner.
• Support Finance Business Partner in implementing Service Line Reporting.
• Maintain adequate records for audit purposes.
• Ensure work structure information (ESR) reconciles with budgets and ensure the efficient processing of authorisation requests on the Trust recruitment system (currently TRAC).
• Ensure the budget is kept updated for alterations throughout the year in line with budget rules and Standing Financial Instructions.
• Work through complex financial and non‑financial workloads with minimal supervision or support.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, engaging with a range of internal and external customers with different backgrounds and sometimes competing objectives.
• Assist in other ad‑hoc financial exercises as required.
• Undertake any other duties applicable to the grade/post as required.
• This post involves the use of display screen equipment as a significant part of normal work and the job holder will be a user as defined in the Health & Safety Policy on work with DSE.

The post holder will either be AAT qualified or actively pursuing a recognised accounting qualification. The candidate should be self‑motivated with good communication and spreadsheet skills.

South London and Maudsley NHS FT are part of the South East London Finance Academy. The Academy is committed to fostering professional development and career growth for all, particularly enhancing opportunities for under‑represented groups and improving the diversity of our finance community.

This permanent role is advertised with the flexibility of a potential secondment opportunity. If you would like to explore this flexibility, discuss with your current line manager and raise it with the recruiting manager; this will not adversely affect your application. All secondments will require agreement from both the host and receiving organisations, and all organisations within SEL are committed to approaching this conversation positively.

If successful, and you would like to take up the secondment, you will need to complete the Secondment Request Form. On successful completion, and in collaboration with your receiving organisation, you will have the opportunity to convert the secondment to a substantive appointment.