Income and Commissioning Accountant: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

As the Income and commissioning accountant your role is to

• Negotiate and liaise with Commissioners and other external organisations to ensure the Group receives the appropriate level of clinical income.
• Scope and provide contracting and financial advice, modelling and information to enable effective negotiation and monitoring of contracts.
• Highlight risks and opportunities within the commissioner contracts
• Support the internal SLR process, together with the costing and information teams.
• Manage the system for monitoring, reporting and reconciling income in line with contracts to ensure the Group receives the correct level of income.
• Ensure clinical income forecasting is robust across the Group
• Represent the finance department internally and externally on financial and performance monitoring groups.
• Management of the Income Team across the Group
• Deputise for the Assistant Director of Finance, as required.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder needs to use their expertise as a CCAB qualified accountant and specialist expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime to:
  • Ensure robust processes are in place to manage the Trust’s monthly and quarterly reporting obligations to both internal and external bodies, ensuring that the requirements of contracts with external bodies are achieved.
  • Negotiate with commissioners at a senior level to ensure the Trust receives the appropriate level of income and forecasts of income, risks and opportunities across both Trusts are robust.
  • Provide high quality financial advice and data to enable the effective commissioning with all commissioners.
  • To establish and maintain robust policies and procedures to ensure financial systems provide robust information
  • To communicate complex financial issues to non- finance professionals.
• The post holder is required to maintain membership of a CCAB accountancy body and undertake structured continuous professional development (CPD) as specified by their accountancy body.
• The post holder is required to undertake CPD in order to maintain an expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime, a detailed knowledge of NHS management/policy issues and to ensure other management skills are kept at a high level.
• Needs an excellent understanding of IT systems including the financial ledger, SLAM, databases and complex spreadsheets enabling the finance team to fully exploit the benefits of any Trust information systems.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• Full CCAB qualification

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential

• Senior accounting experience, ideally with a focus on NHS income and contracts.
• Post CCAB qualification experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, manage and develop finance teams.
• Expert Knowledge of the current NHS financial Regime
• Working knowledge of Commissioning processes.
• Advanced IT skills (MS Office products, particularly Advanced Excel for complex formulae/modelling, bespoke financial software)

Desirable

• Management Experience within NHS Finance
• Substantial post qualification experience in an NHS environment

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Essential

• Experience collaborating with external commissioners and non-finance personnel.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of staff within different NHS disciplines
• Report writing skills and experience interpreting highly complex financial data and translating it into actionable plans.
• Negotiating and influencing skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of general ledger and contracting reporting requirements
• Knowledge of Civica’s SLAM system.
• Knowledge of Service Line Reporting

Special Attributes and other

Essential

• Honesty and integrity
• Creative and innovative
• Excellent analytical skills

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel as requires office days in Grimsby Hospital

Closing Date: 15 November 2026