Senior Assistant CSU Accountant: Sponsorship Available

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Job Summary

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for a highly motivated and proactive Senior Assistant CSU Accountant to join our high performing Management Accounting Team supporting the Leeds Children’s Hospital CSU.

This is a key role in providing excellent financial management and leadership skills, working closely with both clinical and corporate departments to ensure sound financial decision-making. You will play a vital part in budget planning, financial analysis, and reporting in a fast-paced and rewarding environment.

What Were Looking For:

A passionate and enthusiastic finance professional who wants to make a difference

Strong financial management and accounting experience

A team player with a proactive and resilient approach

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to communicate complex financial information effectively

A relevant accounting qualification (or working towards one) is desirable

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, helping to shape service delivery and make a real impact in the challenging financial environment of the NHS.

Expected Shortlisting Date

28/04/2025

Planned Interview Date

14/05/2025

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the Senior Assistant CSU Accountant role is to:

Support the Senior CSU Accountant in providing financial support and advice to managers and clinicians in a number of business units.

With support from senior staff, to promote the active engagement of business units in delivering sustainable financial improvement.

Assisting both managers and clinicians in developing plans to meet savings targets;

Monitoring and reporting on the results of intended actions

Communicating the Trusts financial strategies and policies and how their actions impact upon it

Providing financial analysis and information to support their understanding of current performance and how this can be improved

The development of business cases for service change.

Person Specification

Other Criteria

Essential

  • The ability to analyse and interpret very detailed financial information and perform complex calculations and reconciliations in an environment of ever changing priorities and demands.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Education and knowledge equivalent to the postgraduate diploma level of a professional accountancy qualification.
  • 5 GCSE Grade 4-9 (old system A*-C) or equivalent, to include Maths and English.

Desirable

  • Part qualified status (of CCAB or CIMA)
  • AAT qualified or equivalent

Skills and Behaviours

Essential

  • A confident, pleasant approach with a ability to build excellent working relationships and to engage with a wide range of colleagues both internal and external confidently and diplomatically.
  • A customer focus, acknowledging the importance of service quality and the need to add value to customers, monitoring quality and acting upon feedback appropriately.
  • Commitment to taking responsibility and facilitating the successful achievement of desired outcomes, facing competing challenges in a calm manner and coordinating input from a number of sources.
  • A commitment to reviewing own performance, assessing own strengths and weaknesses, taking corrective action and identifying areas for personal and professional development.
  • Ability to stand up for a personal point of view, even against articulate and powerful opposition.
  • Ability to handle confidential, sensitive and contentious information appropriately.

Experience

Essential

  • Knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel.
  • Specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures.
  • Detailed understanding of financial ledgers and finance software business tools and how to use these to produce bespoke reports and analysis.
  • The provision of management accounting information and advice to managers and other staff.
  • Substantial experience of working in an office environment, within a finance discipline which has included experience of a range of accounting areas and financial systems.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in finance within the NHS.

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).

Closing Date: 24 April 2025

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.