Assistant Business Unit Accountant

Assistant Business Unit Accountant

The closing date is 01 February 2026

An exciting opportunity within the Corporate business unit to join an existing Research and Development financial management Team. The post will be responsible to the Chief Finance Manager (Corporate) and will be responsible for two members of staff. The role involves managing the overall R&D finance function, producing robust reporting and assurance to R&D Board.

To support the Principal Finance Manager in providing a professional, high quality financial management accounting service to several Directorates.

• To co-ordinate the operation of the Financial Management section, allocating work as necessary.
• Responsible for investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.

Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

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Job Description for full details, role summarised as per below:

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• Provides financial and business planning advice and corporate reports to ensure financial controls are maintained in line with Corporate Governance requirements.
• Ensures statutory accounts & returns are accurate and meet agreed timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these where necessary.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

• Must be actively studying and in final year of Professional Accountancy qualification (e.g. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy or The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants).
• Specialist knowledge in, and experience of, Financial Management is essential, as is experience of staff management. This specialist knowledge and experience should have been acquired through the study of Professional Accountancy Qualifications - to postgraduate diploma level.
• Participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme or equivalent.

• Highly developed specialist knowledge and experience of Financial Management, acquired over a substantial period working alongside other professional accountants, attending appropriate courses and undertaking extended self study.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Financials computer system
• Knowledge NHS financial regimes and legislation

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust