Management Accountant
County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Darlington, DL3 6HXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
26 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a suitably experienced and motivated Management Accountant to join our successful team within the award ...
The successful applicant will work within a smaller team of 5
people, providing comprehensive financial management and business advice
1. Budgetary
control
2. Financial
advice and support
3.
Monthly reporting
prepare / distribute monthly clinical care groups / corporates financial
reports with the support of the Senior Management Accountant.
To input
into the Oracle Financial Management System (I.e. Journals, budgets and data
from feeder systems (Payroll/Stock/Debtors/Creditors)
provide information and support to allow identification and interpretation of
variances from budget. Assisting the provision of monthly commentaries on the
key financial issues for the Senior Management Accountant to ensure any trends
are identified.
Assists
the Senior Management Accountant / Associate Care Group / Deputy Corporate
Accountant in the preparation of annual budgets, ensuring that budgets reflect
service requirements.
Represent
the department at internal finance discussions with the support of more senior
finance staff as required with senior grade Healthcare Professionals to
collect/clarify financial information.
Helps
ensure all Income is accurately identified and invoices are raised in a timely
manner.
Liaise
with Financial Services to ensure all income and expenditure is correctly
coded.
the control and accuracy of budgets as directed by the Senior Management
Accountant / Associate Care Group / Deputy Corporate Accountant ensuring that
budgetary controls are reconciled and balanced off on a monthly basis.
To
provide ad-hoc costing information as requested by budget managers
to and support the development and improvement of financial procedures to drive
efficiency and quality.
To work
as part of the overall financial management department and to develop close
working relationships with other Accountants.
develop effective working relationships, providing advice and answering
financial queries for key personal of various levels of seniority working
within the Trust.
Assist in
the production of working papers where required to the Trusts statutory annual
accounts.
To ensure
that departmental standards and agreed deadlines are met.
deputise for the Senior Management Accountant as required.
perform any other duties as may be delegated from time to time.
If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.
You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.
Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.
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Special Requirements
Essential
- Good team player with ability to work collaboratively to achieve shared objectives.
- Ability to work under pressure, achieving tight and often conflicting deadlines.
- Ability to work on own initiative with minimum of supervision.
- Positive attitude.
- Flexible and responsive.
- Ability to continuously reassess and strive to improve working practices to improve efficiency and performance in self & others.
Experience
Essential: - Experience within a finance function.
Desirable: - Experience of working within NHS finance.
Special Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- The ability to provide and receive complex financial information to/from financial and non-financial staff orally, in writing or electronically in a professional manner.
- Good computer skills with experience of the Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word.
- The ability to input into and interrogate the Finance General Ledger to obtain standard and ad hoc reports.
- Has the ability to quickly learn new skills and tasks as and when required.
- Ability to work to all routine and ad hoc deadlines.
- Ability to identify and act to remedy circumstances that mean a deadline is at risk.
- Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to provide training, advise and review the work of more junior team members.
- Must have good analytical skills.
- Possesses basic organisational skills.
Desirable: - Has an appreciation of the NHS finance regime.; - Experience of Oracle Finance Ledger system.
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of 5 GCSEs / O Levels (A* - C) including Maths and English.
- Demonstrates a track record of academic achievement or has experience of working within a finance function.
Desirable: - Experience of working within an NHS finance function.; - Studying towards a professional accountancy qualification.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
9 October 2026
Last checked
13 October 2026
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