Job Description

Day to Day Duties:

• To lead on group management accounting reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, ensuring management account functions such as monthly reports and forecasts are completed
• Apply best accounting practices to ensure an accurate representation of financial performance
• Use persuasion, motivation and negotiation skills to encourage and influence Management and Budget Holders to ensure cost-effective decision making by management
• Lead the budget setting process ensuring that budgets are reflective of the resources required to deliver services 
• Provide financial support for complex business cases as appropriate, describing the financial implications of the business case and investment appraisal techniques
• Use accounting packages to a high standard, thereby ensuring maximum information is available
• Analyse variances by comparing actual income and expenditure versus budget and/or trend analysis techniques, to take account of the complex interaction between activity and income and expenditure and highlight areas of concern
• Collate cost pressures and other service changes and ensure cost allocations used by the Team Costing reflect, as far as possible, true costs
• Working with the Finance Business Partners to understand the impact of activity changes, calculate appropriate marginal costs for planning and monitor purposes
• Work with the relevant Managers to generate accurate financial forecasts for activity levels, contract income, expenditure and non-contract income. 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities