Management Accountant (Sponsorship Available) at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

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Are you looking for a fresh and exciting new challenge?

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity in its newly restructured, award winning Financial Management team supporting a £365m turnover high performing Foundation Trust.

To deliver its strategy, the Trust is looking for a Deputy Finance Business Partner to support the delivery of monthly management accounts across one of its Clinical Service Units (CSU).

The successful candidate will be a key part of the finance team providing financial stewardship to the organisation and supporting the achievement of the finance team vision.

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is seeking applications from individuals who have the drive, passion and ability to make a difference.

Job Details

• Employer: North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

• Job Title: Management Accountant

• Location: United Kingdom

• Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year

• Job Type: Full-time

• Closing Date: 11 November 2026

Main Duties of the Job

An excellent opportunity is available to support the Financial Management team reporting to the Deputy Finance Business Partner.

The post holder will support the Financial Management team in providing support to budget holders and ensuring information and data is accurate and up to date.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring accuracy within the General Ledger and associated financial systems in order to improve the level of services (quality, relevance, accuracy and timeliness of information) and increased efficiency to allow the wider Trust to manage its budgets and deliver the FT financial regime.

About North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, the ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring the right staff are in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

University Hospitals Tees is committed to supporting its staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

University Hospitals Tees is committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those whose first language is not English.

University Hospitals Tees supports the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• To assist in the preparation & distribution of monthly directorates financial reports.

• To input into the Oracle Financial Management System (I.e. Journals, budgets and data from feeder systems (Payroll/Stock/Debtors/Creditors).

• To assist in providing information and support to allow identification and interpretation of variances from budget. Provision of monthly commentaries on the key financial issues for the Deputy Finance Business Partner to ensure any trends are identified.

• Assists the Deputy Finance Business Partner in the preparation of annual budgets, ensuring that budgets reflect service requirements.

• 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.

• Maintaining the control and accuracy of budgets as directed by the Deputy Finance Business Partner ensuring that budgetary controls are reconciled and balanced off on a monthly basis.

• To prepare ad-hoc costing information as requested by budget managers under supervision.

• Contribute 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 financial management assistants.

• To develop effective working relationships, and under supervision, provide advice and answer financial queries for key personnel at various levels of seniority working within the.

• To ensure that departmental standards and agreed deadlines are met, deputising for the Deputy Finance Business Partner as required.

• To perform any other duties as may be delegated from time to time.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office functions, particularly MS Excel.

• Ability to input into and interrogate a finance general ledger, to obtain standard and ad-hoc reports, whilst producing / utilising working papers and audit trails for month end.

• Ability to provide and receive complex financial information to/from financial and non-financial staff orally, in writing or electronically in a professional manner.

• Ability to work under pressure and flexibly to deal with changing priorities and tight deadlines.

• Must have excellent prioritisation and organisational skills.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Oracle Cloud and its Financial Reporting Workspace.

• Knowledge of Standing Financial Instructions, Standing Orders and Schemes of Delegation.

• Knowledge of NHS Finance and Payment Scheme.

• Knowledge of calculating and processing tax, NI, superannuation and VAT.

• Knowledge of the production, monitoring and reporting of service level agreements.

Qualifications

Essential

– AAT Part Qualified and minimum of 2 years’ experience in Financial Management.

Desirable

• AAT Qualified.

• NHS Experience.

Experience

Essential

– Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Financial Management.

Desirable

– Previous NHS experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.

Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

How to Apply

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