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Job overview

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated management accountant to work in the corporate accounts team within the finance department of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB.

The successful candidate will have completed their level 4 AAT and/or be working towards a CCAB or CIMA qualification, with financial management experience in a large organisation and knowledge of the NHS finance regime. They will have excellent I.T. and communication skills and experience of managing and developing staff.  They will have demonstrated the ability to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.

The Corporate Accountant will report to the Assistant Head of Finance. This is a key role providing a comprehensive financial management service for the corporate pay and non-pay accounts, including the ICB running costs.

Main duties of the job

The Corporate Accountant’s main duties will be to:

• Provide expert financial advice and oversight of financial management for their areas of responsibility
• Contribute to the month end reporting process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting of the monthly financial position both internally and externally to the organisation.
• Monitor financial performance against agreed budgets, analysing and reporting on variances and assisting in formulating corrective actions.
• Assist with co-ordinating the budget setting and forecasting processes.
• Ensure the provision of high quality financial reporting to budget holders and other non-finance managers.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships to enable effective working. The post holder will be expected to liaise with both internal departments and external bodies.

Working for our organisation

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population. 

We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS’ priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan). 

The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.