Management Accounts Assistant

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to 'support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities'. We are rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission, 'Outstanding' for Caring and 'Outstanding' for our Urgent and Emergency Care. Our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.

Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.

Job overview

• Band 4, NHS Agenda for Change
• £21,892 - £24,157
• Permanent, full time contract (37.5hrs per week)
• Base location: Crawley HQ
• If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zon e
• Please note we retain the right to close this advert early should we receive enough applications.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity in the SECAMB Finance Team based in our Crawley Headquarters for a Management Accounts Assistant.

The Management Accounts Assistant will be responsible for supporting the Finance Business Associate in the the production of accurate and timely monthly management accounts, the analysis of key variances and help to develop realistic forecasts. The successful applicant will also be expected to have strong IT skills and possess the ability to create and manage complex spreadsheets.

Working for our organisation

• New NHS employees will be eligible to join the NHS Pension Scheme
• A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years' service
• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes
• Access to occupational health and counselling services
• Award winning wellbeing hub
• Back up buddy App
• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description.

Applicants should be AAT or part qualified CCAB or equivalent, and will have the ability to create effective working relationships and have the communication skills and other personal qualities necessary to support the Finance Business Associate in engaging effectively with non-financial managers and their teams.

We welcome applications from any candidate that can demonstrate their suitability for this challenging role, regardless of background.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• AAT or part-qualified CCAB or equivalent

Skills
Essential criteria

• Competent IT user, in particular Microsoft Excel
• Able to clearly communicate finance and non-finance issues
• Able to identify and investigate key variances

Experience
Essential criteria

• Experience of preparing monthly accounts including variance analysis, accruals and prepayments, and forecasting

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of NHS policies and procedures

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you're applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

If you have previously applied for this role and were deemed not appointable at any stage of the recruitment process, you cannot normally apply for the same or similar role for a minimum of six months from the date of application. This is to allow time for the candidate to receive feedback and undergo the appropriate development.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact recruitment@secamb.nhs.uk stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years' history.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. If you are currently paid under Annex 5 and this post is the same banding as your current role, you can request to remain on Annex 5, or move to Section 2.

Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zon e .

Follow our recruitment on Twitter @SECAmbRecruit and check out our Facebook page - SECAmb NHS Recruitment. You can also find us on Linkedin under South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

Documents to download

• Management Accounts Assistant ( PDF , 103.9 KB )
• Employee information privacy notice ( PDF , 175.8 KB )