Senior Management Accountant

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Dumfries, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Management Accountant for a contract until 31st March 2027 on a rate of £350 – £375/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid based with a minimum 1 day a week in the office.  
 
Responsibilities  
 
– Responsible for producing the financial management reports of a range of services and departments within the Acute and Diagnostics Directorate. This will include attendance at management team meetings and budget meetings as required, engaging with senior management. 
– Responsible for budget setting and development of financial plans for these budget areas.  Production of financial plans to reporting timescales and adjustment and development on an ongoing basis. 
– Working with General and other service managers, develop sound business cases for service changes within areas of responsibility.  
– The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery. 
– Working closely with the budget managers, ensure financial control is maintained within all aspect of their areas of budgetary authority including managing resources within budget and compliance with Standing Financial Instructions. 
– Production, coordination and interpretation of accurate and timely financial information to budget managers, Divisional Finance Manager for Acute and Diagnostics, Director and the Deputy Director of Finance. 
– Responsible as a line manager for the small team of management accounting staff on a day to day basis including aspects  of sickness absence, appraisal, disciplinary, recruitment and selection decisions and departmental workload allocation and reallocation.  
– Working with service managers to develop robust forecasting and planning mechanisms for all cost activity to continually improve the Board financial monitoring process. 
– Support the Divisional Finance Manager for Acute and Diagnostics in the production of activity and cost data for the Scottish Government cost book process. 
– Lead on the preparation of monthly budget statements for budget managers, including both financial and non-financial information, reporting on current financial position and preparing accurate outturn projections. 
– Work as part of the relevant directorate management team providing financial support in all areas including the costing of services, development bids and proactively suggesting and supporting implementation of ideas in which the service can improve and redesign. 
– This includes providing proactive, high quality and comprehensive support and advice relating to the secondary care prescribing budget, linking with the wider clinical and pharmacy teams to highlight significant issues and report the key variances to the annual budget. 
– Support the development of new business cases and their efficacy and impact upon existing services. 
– Provide the necessary project support to the Divisional Finance Manager for Acute and Diagnostics in the costing and analysis of information required for the development of the Remobilisation and Recovery Plan. 
– This will involve detailed costings and modelling of activity and workforce estimates related to the changes within the changing clinical model, liaising with key project partners in coordinating the relevant financial tasks involved in progressing the overall project plan. 
– Co-ordination of tasks and workstreams specific to the financial consequences of the clinical change model to strict deadlines, prioritising workload as required to achieve the timelines of the project plan.  
– Be responsible for planning and organising work activities and formulating programmes of works for the various project workstreams, including the production and updating of project programmes. 
– Produce detailed financial models, including the relevant scenario assumptions to mitigate the uncertainty of current planning assumptions. 
 
Essential Skills: 
 
– A recognised Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) or CIMA accountancy full qualification or finalist (CCAB requires degree level entry plus normally 3 to 4 years’ study to qualification to become qualified). 
– Spreadsheet preparation, analysis and presentation 
– Report writing skills 
– Ability to present and explain numerical data and finance issues to non-finance staff 
– Proven experience at a senior level within a similar sized organisation for a number of years 
– Management accounting experience including production of monthly accounts, budgeting and forecasting  
– Staff management experience 
– Ability to work on own initiative and take proactive approach 
– Ability to prioritise strands of work and meet agreed deadlines 
– Ability to work in a team and take account of various stakeholder perspectives 
– Ability to influence others 
– Ability to develop strong working relationships across multi-disciplinary teams 
 
Desirable Skills: 
 
– Similar environment accounting experience 
– Knowledge of the accounting framework 
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.