Reporting directly into the Head of Financial Accounting, the Financial Accountant will be responsible for developing an efficient financial accounting function with specific responsibilities for managing capital accounting, VAT and inventory. There will be a heavy focus on reviewing existing processes in these key areas and making recommendations for improvement. You will be responsible for preparing monthly balance sheet and cashflow reports and will be involved in the production of the Trust’s statutory accounts and quarterly returns to Monitor.

The successful candidate is likely to have a background in audit or financial accounting. Coming from either a commercial or NHS organisation, you will be able to demonstrate a strong motivation for the sector. You will have a strong technical skill set, coupled with excellent academics and strong relationship building skills. In person you must demonstrate confidence, initiative, and integrity to work within an established and high profile organisation.

The Trust is comprised of 5 hospitals (St Mary’s, Hammersmith, Charing Cross, The Western Eye and Queen Charlottes & Chelsea), employs over 9,000 staff and has an annual turnover of £950 million.

The “Building World Class Finance” programme provides a unique opportunity to genuinely transform the way Finance & Procurement is managed across the organisation. The programme is based upon the solid foundations of class leading systems and processes supported by an innovative and dynamic approach to financial management.

This role will report directly to the Financial Controller and manage a team with three direct reports.  The Chief Accountant plays a pivotal role in the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial returns.

This is a highly technical role and expert knowledge of the NHS financial regime, capital accounting and VAT is essential.  The successful candidate will be a highly professional, resourceful team player with a strong customer focus, a clear vision for the continuing development of the finance function and the ability to effectively balance competing priorities. 

You will either be currently working within the NHS, or for a professional audit firm where you have had extensive experience of working with NHS clients.

Interested candidates should e-mail their CV and current remuneration to imperialnhs@allenlane.co.uk 

Alternatively for an informal conversation regarding the role call Adrian Watts on 020 7101 8807. More information on this position can be found at www.allenlane.co.uk/imperialnhs   

Allen Lane is managing this campaign on behalf of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Please make applications as soon as possible, as interviews may be brought forward depending on level of response.

Advert Closing Date: 18th March

Imperial Healthcare Interviews: Week commencing 25th March & 1st April

The Trust is comprised of 5 hospitals (St Mary’s, Hammersmith, Charing Cross, The Western Eye and Queen Charlottes & Chelsea), employs over 9,000 staff and has an annual turnover of £950 million.

The “Building World Class Finance” programme provides a unique opportunity to genuinely transform the way Finance & Procurement is managed across the organisation. The programme is based upon the solid foundations of class leading systems and processes supported by an innovative and dynamic approach to financial management.

The aim of the role is to work with key stakeholders within Finance to identify, prioritise and coordinate the delivery of improvement opportunities within Finance to enhance process efficiency and effectiveness. The role will include a strong focus on understanding external trends and leading practices, and ensuring Imperial leverage relevant opportunities.

Striving for best practice, this role will be required to benchmark Imperial against other leading NHS and private-Sector organisations. The individual also needs to foster a culture of continuous improvement, and build and maintain a governance framework that will support this culture.

This is a unique role which will appeal to individuals who enjoy identifying opportunities for process and systems improvements.  The reporting element of this role requires excellent verbal and written communication skills and a confidence when building relationships outside of finance.  You will a qualified accountant who has experience of working in complex organisations.

Allen Lane is managing this campaign on behalf of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Interested candidates should e-mail their CV and current remuneration to imperialhealthcare@allenlane.co.uk

Alternatively call Adrian on 020 7101 8807. More information on this position can be found at www.allenlane.co.uk

Please make applications as soon as possible, as interviews may be brought forward depending on level of response.

Advert Closing Date: 18th March

Imperial Healthcare Interviews: Week commencing 25th March & 1st April

The Trust is comprised of 5 hospitals (St Mary’s, Hammersmith, Charing Cross, The Western Eye and Queen Charlottes & Chelsea), employs over 9,000 staff and has an annual turnover of £950 million.

The “Building World Class Finance” programme provides a unique opportunity to genuinely transform the way Finance & Procurement is managed across the organisation. The programme is based upon the solid foundations of class leading systems and processes supported by an innovative and dynamic approach to financial management.

This position will report directly to the Financial Controller and manage an experienced team of three.  This is a strategic role which provides high-level operational support to the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll Managers and supports the Trust in managing its working capital position.  This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the short and medium term planning of the division and requires an individual who has a clear strategic vision to develop and expand the Trust’s transactional services to a level where they can compete with the best in the commercial sector.

You will be a strong and decisive leader who has an appetite to challenge processes and procedures, has an in-depth experience of transactional areas and the motivation to work in a more strategic capacity.  You will also be a self-motivating, decisive leader with excellent staff management and communication skills. Further you need to demonstrate a strong customer focus attitude and have a proven record of challenging and improving processes and procedures.

Interested candidates should e-mail their CV and current remuneration to imperialnhs@allenlane.co.uk 

Alternatively for an informal conversation regarding the role call Adrian Watts on 020 7101 8807. More information on this position can be found at www.allenlane.co.uk/imperialnhs   

Allen Lane is managing this campaign on behalf of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Please make applications as soon as possible, as interviews may be brought forward depending on level of response.

Advert Closing Date: 18th March

Imperial Healthcare Interviews: Week commencing 25th March & 1st April

We currently deliver the widest range of specialities of any children's hospital in the UK.  Our mission is to provide world-class clinical care and training, and pioneering new research and treatments in partnership with others for the benefit of children in the UK and worldwide.

Reporting into the Head of Financial Management & Planning you will be required to lead a team of Finance Managers and Assistant Finance Managers, responsible for the provision of an expert financial management service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporate departments.  You will be required to support the Financial Management Team, with the development and implementation of the Trust’s medium to long term strategy.

The successful candidate will be CCAB qualified accountant, either currently working within the healthcare sector or a similar environment.  You will be a strong leader with sound analytical and problem solving skills.  You will have a strong technical skill set coupled with excellent academics and strong relationship building skills.  In person you must demonstrate confidence, poise, and integrity to work within an established and high profile organisation.

If you are interested in having a further discussion about the role, please send through your CV and supporting statement to adrianwatts@allenlane.co.uk

Appropriate candidates will ideally have first time passes from a chartered background.

Responsibilities will include:

• Management and motivation of the financial accounting team
• Assisting with a review of accounting controls and processes
• Timely and accurate delivery of the statutory accounts
• Working closely with the auditors

Interested applicants will be immediately available with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage a team of two. You will be fully qualified and have a proven track record in statutory accounting.

This role will involve: 

• Providing high level financial management information, analysis and advice to the division
• Working closely with clinical Directors to help them monitor financial performance
• Managing a small team
• Producing financial forecasts
• Developing and monitoring action plans to address income, expenditure and activity variances
• Assisting in preparing the 3-5 year financial plan
• Developing cost improvement programmes and income generation schemes
• Providing financial input into strategic revenue business cases

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant looking for the challenge of a long term contract within a prestigious Foundation Trust – you will have previous experience of management accounting within an acute trust, you will have excellent technical ability as well as strong communication skills.  You will be able to demonstrate how you have developed strong relationships with clinical budget holders and service managers from a professional background and you will be an experienced line manager with excellent analytical skills and the ability to deal with large amounts of complex data.

Responsibilities will include:

• To embed a project lifecycle and gateway process which supports projects from generating the ideas, through to start-up, initiation, delivery and close down
• To embed a suite of PMO controls, including a streamlined and standardised reporting process
• To design an efficient governance structure, including clear terms of reference for all roles, groups and meetings that sets out the responsibilities and accountabilities for individuals
• To identify and address communication and training requirements, tools and ways of working

Interested applications with have excellent communication skills, have worked with staff at all levels within a Hospital environment and will ensure that patient quality and safety is at the heart of programme delivery. 

Using their current systems, IRIS Exchequer and OLE reporting, you will be responsible for developing robust reports that satisfy the needs of the budget holders and board.

The successful candidate will be an expert on Iris Exchequer and OLE reporting with a strong understanding of accounting and management information. Although a strong technical mind set is required for this role, excellent communication and inter-personals skills are also essential.

You will be part of the Academy’s leadership team and will be the leading support staff professional within the organisation, managing a team of four. You will provide leadership and management to school support staff and advising the Principal and Academy Leadership team on how support staff can enhance the effectiveness of the teaching staff in order to achieve high standards of learning & achievement for pupils.

You will ideally hold a degree or a relevant professional qualification, have previous management experience, whilst also having a strong ICT and office based administration skill set. You should also be skilled in producing spread sheet analyses and management level reports with costing’s and recommendations, and it would be beneficial is you have knowledge of school finance processes and procedure. You should be a strong communicator and have the ability to build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

Please apply immediately as this role is moving very quickly.

The most fundamental shift will see the function partner more closely with all parts of the business and increase the value and service levels that it adds with regards to financial support.

You will be required to lead and manage the financial transaction processing teams within Financial Services, whilst also taking full responsibility for planning, managing an delivering the Group-wide financial year end process. You will also lead on maintaining and developing business-wide financial controls, as well as providing financial accounts information to management through the year. In addition you lead on all VAT and tax accounting issues and will be responsible for managing a team of c20.

You will be a professionally qualified accountant who has significant financial management at a senior level as well as experience of managing large and diverse teams.  You should be an inspirational leader, you makes themselves visible to all and has experience of achieving results through a strong performance management culture. You will an excellent communicator who is able to build relationships across the organisation.

Whether currently working in a financial management role in the housing sector, or a similar role else where, this role is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive leading housing association during an exciting time of change.

As Head of Management Reporting, you will lead a team of three across a £300 million income organisation. You will be tasked with effectively managing the business planning, forecasting and lottery and exchequer cash-flows functions. Under your leadership you will build, manage and maintain a strong and effective business partnership service to the directorates.

You will be a professionally qualified accountant who has significant financial management at a senior level.  You should be an inspirational leader, you make yourself visible to all and has experience of achieving results through a strong performance management culture. You will an excellent communicator with a proven ability to successfully build productive relationships with senior figures and external partners.

Whether currently working in a financial management role in the sporting sector, or a similar role else where, this role is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive sporting organisation during an exciting time of change.

Please apply immediately as interviews may take place prior to the closing date.

To assist the Assurance and Risk Manager in overseeing internal control, risk management, and compliance across Media Action. To act as a key point of advice to Media Action’s management on risk management, internal control, and compliance.

Working alongside the Risk and Assurance Manager, you assist in overseeing internal control, risk management, and compliance across the organisation both in the UK Head Office and globally. You will act as a key point of advice to management on risk management, internal control, and compliance, ensuring that the global operations of the organisation are compliant with donor, legal, tax and financial requirements. This will involve visiting overseas offices (8-12 weeks a year expected), reviewing processes and procedures, reviewing field visit and donor reports from others and may involve liaising with other parts of the organisation to carry out internal audits. 

You will ideally be a  qualified accountant or auditor, who ideally has previous exposure to major donors such as USAID or the EU. A  training background in practice with not-for-profit clients would be an advantage. You should also have strong interpersonal skills, being able to establish effective working relationships with financial and non-financial managers at all levels.

This is a  challenging and highly visible position across the organisation, leading on high profile projects and could be a fantastic next step in your career.

This role will involve:

• Providing analysis during in year contract monitoring
• Analysing monthly SLAM data returns
• Investigating areas of under performance and over performance
• Producing monthly reporting packs
• Carrying out adhoc data requests for internal clients and external customers

You will be an experienced information analyst and you will have honed your informatics skills within a PCT, CSU or acute commissioning organisation.  You will have existing knowledge of SUS and SLAM datasets, knowledge of SQL and advanced Excel.  You will have a challenging and enquiring mind, attention to detail and strong communication skills. The successful candidate will have high personal standards in the quality of work produced and a commitment to delivering customer service of the highest standard.

Interested applicants need not have NHS experience but should have at least one year’s previous experience helping to run a finance system on a daily basis.

The role itself will involve the following tasks:

• Changing the tapes on the servers
• Setting up cost centres and accounting codes
• Making sure journals are posted correctly and ensuring that month-end is closed properly
• Answering the queries of up to a 1000 users

Interested applicants should demonstrate a good level of communication skills as the role requires liaising with the users on a daily basis to help resolve queries and solve their technical issues.  They should also be competent enough in their technical skills that they can work by themselves one day a week without the support of the systems services manager.  Finally, an understanding of ‘business objects’ is desirable.

Interested applicants should be part-qualified and should desirably have some previous NHS experience.

The role itself will involve the following tasks:

• Producing and analysing monthly budget statements
• Prioritising and resolving queries from budget holders
• Attending regular budget holder meetings and providing challenge where budgets are overspent

Interested applicants should be able to prioritise and organise their workload so as to be able to keep to tight deadlines.  They should also be able to demonstrate a confident and professional style of communication due to the weekly meetings with budget holders which are necessary.  Finally, a high level of Microsoft Excel skills is necessary and this is something which may be examined at interview.

This organisation is undertaking a huge change programme, at the centre of which is a complete overhaul and upgrade of their Finance System which has 4,500 general users and 14,500 users of its expenses module. An experienced Training Consultant is needed to create a Training Strategy, complete a Needs Analysis and begin rolling out a comprehensive Training Programme.

We are looking for somebody to take a proactive, project management approach to bringing this huge piece of work to a successful conclusion. You will be the drive behind ensuring that the roll out of the new system is a success and this role will suit somebody who is going to relish in both the pressure and challenge behind making sure this is the case.

Key responsibilities are below:

• The creation of a Training Strategy, identifying key stakeholders and the needs of the business and creating a strategy that reflects the changing needs of users, allowing them to exploit the new system in the most effective manner. There will need to be an emphasis on cost effectiveness
• Carrying out Training Needs Analysis, mapping users across the entire organisations and calculating how many users need to be trained at varying levels
• Liaising with senior Finance staff to ascertain what materials and expertise are needed for training, ensuring consistency of message across all training programmes. You will be responsible for the creation of all training material
• Delivery of training programme across the organisation, managing a delivery schedule effectively whilst working closely with Programme Directors and the Director of Finance
• Line management of up to 3 direct reports

Person specification:

• Previous experience of the following in a large, complex and multi-faceted organisation:

- Creating a Training Strategy 

- Undertaking of a Training Needs Analysis

- Experience delivering a Training Schedule

- Creation of Training Materials

• Demonstrable knowledge of financial administration processes
• Previous line management experience

If you have a strong track record in Training Management within a large organisation, can display the above qualities and would thrive in a progressive, fast paced and commercial environment then apply now, we would love to hear from you. Please note that applications will be considered upon receiving them and as such, immediate application is recommended.

You will play a major role in the organisation’s administration of a new government scheme whose external customers are businesses, local authorities, housing associations etc. You will lead a team of five who are responsible for making payments, for producing and checking management information, including financial projections, staff resource projections and payment forecasting. They are responsible for developing financial reports, overseeing the production of data reports and for providing an appropriate format to those liaising with clients and stakeholders. You will ensure the work is delivered accurately and to performance targets and that information is provided in a format which is accurate, easy to assimilate and appropriate for the audience. You will also support the Head of Finance in short term budget management and longer term budget forecasting including development of corporate plan figures.

You will come from a background of managing high volume payment processing and be wanting to move into a dynamic and fast paced environment in a new and challenging project. You will have experience of leadership in an operational service delivery, as well as a strong track record of delivery against operational targets and meeting challenging deadlines. You should have an understanding of SQL in order to produce information from the scheme’s CRM system and to maintain an interim management information model.

Please apply immediately as interviews may take place prior to the closing date.

Employing more than 4,000 people in a wide variety of roles, they are currently seeking to appoint an outstanding Head of Finance to support the Director of Finance as the organisation continues its growth and development.

Managing the large central finance team and all financial processes, your responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining effective financial systems and processes and overseeing the production of the statutory accounts
• Reporting the charity’s progress against budget
• Developing a more sophisticated cost analysis and cash flow reporting model
• Composing reports monitoring the charity’s progress towards the objectives set in the strategic plan
• Preparing the charity’s annual budget

The successful candidate will be an intelligent, self-motivated, qualified accountant with outstanding technical accounting skills, honed preferably within the charity sector. You will be a highly credible individual, a confident communicator, and an experienced team leader and developer of talent. You will be well-versed in managing key internal and external stakeholders including the auditors, and committed to improving and maintaining high standards developed over a number of years.

Interested candidates should email a CV with a covering letter expressing their reasons for interest and current salary details to mariecurie@allenlane.co.uk. For an informal discussion regarding the position, please contact Maurice Goldstone at Allen Lane on 020 3031 9630. 

Closing date for applications: Sunday 5th May 2013.

They are looking to appoint a Head of Finance, who will be responsible for the leadership of the finance and accounting function, ensuring it provides a high quality service. Reporting into the Director of Finance and Resources, you will be in charge of day-to-day financial management, including  all financial systems and processes, the provision of management information and supervision of the statutory reporting requirements. In addition, you will be the key link between finance and the external auditors, bankers, insurance brokers and other external advisors. You will also be required to manage and develop a small team of three, ensuring that the function uses it resources in an effective and efficient manner.

You must be a fully qualified accountant, with a thorough practical understanding of the principles and techniques of management accounting, budgeting and planning, financial controls and processes, and an ability to prioritise a significant workload. The role requires someone with initiative and business awareness, capable of building internal relationships and understanding how Global Witness works and where finance can help add value. You should be an excellent communicator, with the credibility to work alongside and influence senior individuals.

Whether you are currently in the not-for-profit or commercial sector, this 360 degree finance role will be one of the most challenging and rewarding of your career.

To apply, please email your CV to gw@allenlane.co.uk. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact David Godfrey on 020 3031 9627 or 07515 754573. 

The closing date for the post is Wednesday 8th May 2013.

Global Witness values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

All third party applications will be forwarded to Allen Lane.

Reporting in the Head of Management Accounts and Business Analysis, and managing a team of two, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing reporting packages both internally to each division of the organisation and externally to the Board of Trustees and the Audit, Risk & Finance Committees.  You will be expected to work closely with other finance professionals in the organisation, with Divisional Directors and other Senior Managers (DMT) as your key stakeholder group. Your key areas of responsibility will be the Production of Monthly Management Accounts, the Management of Restricted Funds, and the production of the Annual Budget.

To succeed, you must be a professionally qualified accountant (or equivalent experience) with an analytical and collaborative approach to finance. You should be an exceptional, natural communicator adept at building rapport with, influencing and challenging non-finance stakeholders at all levels. Strong written and excel skills are also essential.

Whether currently working  in the not-for-profit sector, in practice, or in a similar role elsewhere, this role is an exciting opportunity to join a national charity during an exciting time of change.

Please apply immediately as interviews may take place prior to the closing date.

Local Services Clinical Support Unit (CSU) has an opportunity for an experienced NHS professional to join the team as a Business Manager.  Local Services has a total expenditure budget of £70million, and are made up of three services lines - Inpatients, Communities, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and are provide care within Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We are looking for a proactive leader who is able to build and bring a team along with them so that they can implement new ways of working in order to improve the delivery of the finance function.  The Management Accounts function is embedded within Local Services which provides a closer link to our budget holders in order to enable us to facilitate with the running of the business.  You will lead this team as well as acting as the lead Business Manager for finance queries from the CSU.

You will use your CCAB Financial knowledge or significant Financial Management experience to lead a team of four accountants in order to successfully deliver the reporting timetable.  This knowledge and understanding will also help you to support the Head of Finance and Business throughout the annual contracting cycle.  Your experience of costing and involvement with Business Cases will enable you to support our Deputy Director with Service developments.  You will either come from the NHS, wider public sector or commercial business.

If you would like to talk about this vacancy or arrange an informal visit please send your CV to adrianwatts@allenlane.co.uk

Local Services Clinical Support Unit has an opportunity for an experienced NHS professional to join the team as the Directorate Accountant.  Local Services has a total expenditure budget of £70million, and are made up of three services lines - Inpatients, Communities, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and are provide care within Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We are looking for a proactive individual who is confident in their own ability so that they can implement new ways of working in order to improve the delivery of the finance function.  The Management Accounts function is embedded within Local Services which provides a closer link to our budget holders in order to enable us to facilitate with the running of the business.

You will be part-qualified CCAB qualified and use this knowledge in order to successfully deliver the reporting timetable.  This is an excellent opportunity to work within a developing finance team where you can build your experience up quickly.

If you would like to talk about this vacancy or arrange an informal visit please send your CV to adrianwatts@allenlane.co.uk

Our vision is to beat blood cancer – 100% survival and 100% quality of life for patients.  Many health charities may have a similar vision, but what distinguishes us is the way in which we intend to achieve it. Through innovation, impact and thought leadership, we will bring about positive change not only for blood cancer patients, but for the wider world.

This exciting role has been newly created to spearhead the development of a management accounting function. The successful Management Accounting Manager will pioneer this change working closely with the Head of Finance and Director to create these new systems and capacities, and adding significant value in terms of management information and insight in order to positively influence and improve financial literacy and decision-making at all levels in LLR.

The Management Accounting Manager will act as a true business partner and provide a solid framework that will under pin long and short-term planning, reforecasting and reporting of actual performance by providing regular and ad-hoc reports.  You will be involved in the strategic development of finance, improving systems, processes and tools both within Finance and across the organisation, whilst also positioning finance at the heart of the organisation through effective business partnering with non-finance budget holders.

You will be a fully qualified accountant who is forward thinking and well organised, with a proven track record in developing and delivering management accounting services and with the ability to see the big picture. You should have experience of working directly with and effectively managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, being able to challenge and influence at all levels across the organisation. You should be a proactive individual who has a high level of commercial awareness and a strong understanding of the commercial principles that drive business performance.

We’re an ambitious, innovative, fast-paced organisation, and there’s never been a better time to be a part of what we do. Whether you are working within the not-for profit sector or within the private sector, this is a fantastic opportunity to join the leading charity in its field at an exciting period in its history.

To apply, please e-mail your CV and suitability covering letter to davidgodfrey@allenlane.co.uk

For a confidential discussion about the position call David Godfrey on 020 3031 9627 or 07515 754 573.

The closing date for the post is Monday 3rd June 2013.

Our vision is to beat blood cancer – 100% survival and 100% quality of life for patients.  Many health charities may have a similar vision, but what distinguishes us is the way in which we intend to achieve it. Through innovation, impact and thought leadership, we will bring about positive change not only for blood cancer patients, but for the wider world.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an influential Head of Finance to continue to drive the transformation of the department to become a critical support service where the successful Head of Finance will proactively share insight with all areas of the business in order to influence decisions made across all functions and ultimately add value.

The Head of Finance will form part of the wider leadership team and be effective at managing and inspiring a strong influential finance team which is fit-for-purpose for the emerging organisational needs. You will be required to work closely with the Finance Director to develop and implement the finance strategy of LLR in support of the organisation’s overall strategy, whilst also positioning finance at the heart of the organisation through effective business partnering with non-finance budget holders. You will take responsibility for the day to day financial management of LLR including the provision of all financial, statutory and management reporting, as well as making continuous improvements to systems, processes and tools both within Finance and across the organisation in order to improve efficiency and support better decision-making.

You will be a fully qualified accountant who is driven and well organised, with a proven track record in managing teams, delivering financial and management accounting services and with the ability and potential to work effectively at a strategic level. You should have experience of working directly with and effectively managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, being able to challenge and influence at all levels across the organization. You should be a proactive individual who has a high level of commercial awareness and a strong understanding of the commercial principles that drive business performance.

We’re an exciting, innovative, fast-paced organisation, and there’s never been a better time to be a part of what we do. Whether you are working within the not-for profit sector or within the private sector, this is a fantastic opportunity to join the leading charity in its field at an exciting period in its history.

To apply, please e-mail your CV and suitability covering letter to davidgodfrey@allenlane.co.uk

For a confidential discussion about the position call David Godfrey on 020 3031 9627 or 07515 754 573.

The closing date for the post is Wednesday 22nd May 2013.

Responsible to the Head of Financial Management for the day to day running of the area, the post is specifically aimed towards co-ordination, collection, analysis and presentation of income and expenditure and manpower information.  Furthermore, the post holder will have specific responsibility for maintaining and reconciling the Trust’s budgets and central provisions.  As such, you will provide financial management support and advice to designated directorates within the Trust.

The primary responsibility is to work with the relevant directors and managers to ensure financial targets are achieved.  This will include production of accurate and timely budgets, monthly accounts and forecasts, investigation and advice on highly complex issues.

You should be an established accountant with substantial experience of working with corporate budgets in an NHS environment, preferably in a senior Management Accounting or Finance Manager role.  Key to the role will be liaison with executive staff, so strong communication skills will be essential. Owing to a challenging budget schedule, you will need to hit the ground running.

The role is likely to give you exposure to the whole trust, offering the right person a great opportunity to understand the whole business whilst adding weight to their CV.

As the head of the Purchasing Department the post holder will provide and manage a professional procurement service to the Trust, contributing to the development and achievement of the corporate objectives.  This will include ensuring that the service is sensitive, responsive and flexible to the changing needs of the users, balanced against the need to remain cost effective.  The main task is to provide strong and effective professional management, leading to the achievement of associated targets, efficiencies and added value initiatives.  You will be expected to present the department as a progressive, proactive, responsive and innovative concern in order to generate and drive uptake of negotiated contracts.  Working closely with stakeholders to influence choice, deliver savings and make process improvements, it should be a rewarding position.

You should be a CIPS qualified, or equivalent, established Head of Procurement with exposure to an Acute Trust environment, where your experience should span clinical supplies, stores and strategy. Significant procurement managerial experience at a senior level and demonstrable achievements are essential.  Strong communication skills will be very important and you will play a leading role in influencing and negotiating both externally and internally.

The role will play a large part in making sure the trust is operating efficiently in the face of tightening NHS budgets and will allow the medical staff to deliver more to the community they serve.

This organisation has an excellent reputation for enabling genuine career progression and is currently expanding into new business areas, hence the need to strengthen its financial resources. As such, they are seeking a qualified accountant to work directly with a Finance Director on an interim basis.

This role has a big emphasis on improving accounting standards across the organisation, with this role in particular focusing on further improving fixed asset reporting. You will have scope to take this forward as you deem fit.

Key duties include:

• Preparation of annual consolidated financial statements in line with the Higher Education SORP and other current accounting regulations
• Capital accounting in accordance to the relevant accounting standards, including identifying and accounting for additions and disposals, calculation of depreciation, maintenance of the fixed asset register
• Period end accounting including reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts, the collection, monitoring and review of account reconciliations prepared outside the Finance Division and the preparation of key balance sheet figures plus supporting analysis
• Monitoring spend against budget from capital grants and providing management information
• Complete financial ownership and company secretary responsibilities for a number of subsidiary organisations including maintenance of the accounting records, preparation of the annual financial statements, period end accounts, regular cash flow forecasts, budgets, income and expenditure forecasts and preparation of quarterly VAT returns

 Person specification:

• You will be a fully qualified CCAB accounting, preferably ACA
• Demonstrably strong Excel skills
• Exemplary communication skills
• Experience working within a finance department
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively in a fast paced, pressurised environment

If you would thrive in a role that will be demanding, testing yet ultimately rewarding and will undoubtedly add experience to your CV that can set you apart from the rest then we would love to hear from you.

My client is committed to ensuring it is able to ensure that they are in a place where business and enterprise can flourish, where communities are supported to be more resilient and where strong partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sector are secured to drive joint outcomes.

The Director of Commissioning - Economic Growth and Communities is a key, senior leadership role spanning commissioning for broadly defined strategic objectives and outcomes relating to all economic and community priorities, with a high degree of autonomy in setting objectives and taking action to deliver.

You will have experience gained form both Local/Central Government and a proven track record in the development and execution of a strategy, focusing on Integrated Outcome based commissioning, to secure economic growth and community outcomes.

You will be a strong negotiator, advocate and have experience of influencing at board/Director level.

You will contribute to policy formulation at a strategic level and provide advice and guidance to the Executive Director and to Members

You will be required to apply significant judgement, drawing on their understanding of the bigger picture and longer term policy developments to evaluate and consider the best commissioning approach locally.

This will be an ideal role for someone who has worked at Director Level, and commissioned services ideally from Regeneration Background.

They are also looking at different ways to deliver their services for the future, including Local authority trading companies, partnerships and joint ventures.

These roles will provide them with additional expertise and capacity within their People Relations and Reward centre of expertise team, to lead on aspects of this work. 

Essential experience:

• You will be a subject matter expert on Organisational design and will have a track record of delivering this type of change in a large organisation
• You will have a strong commercial or local authority background and experience of advising in changing organisations
• Strong advising, influential, communication and project management skills are essential
• Experience of creating and implementing user friendly pragmatic policies and guides to help managers and employees understand complex matters in simple terms
• Highly commercial and able to align HR practice to business objectives
• Experience of working with an organisation going through radical change

This is an organisation wide, culture transformation programme.

You will:

• Lead and deliver the programme
• Develop an engagement strategy to identify key OD and change interventions
• Plan and deliver a comprehensive OD consultancy service to meet the needs of the Business Support project, adhering to a culture which is results orientated, customer focused and forward looking
• Work with L&D to create a new performance framework
• Embed the councils change management framework
• Work with a number of teams and stakeholders, conduct change readiness and change impact assessments before transformation maps and project plans
• Promote the OD service through the appropriate communication of key achievements and successes and develop a culture of feedback which will enable on-going improvement of the OD service
• Work with Executive Directors, senior managers and all stakeholders to monitor and evaluate effectiveness of business process improvements

The successful candidate will need to be:

• A highly credible HR/OD practitioner with knowledge on the best of current thinking with the OD and business improvement areas
• Have the intellectual capacity to demonstrate or acquire an understanding of the broader operating context of the Council
• Knowledge of the practical application of business improvement processes
• Knowledge of project management techniques
• Experience of successfully managing business improvement processes and supporting change in a large and complex organisation
• Proven success in instigating and facilitating change in culture, behaviours, thinking and project management

Exciting recent change has resulted in the creation of this business partner vacancy. The successful individual will support the delivery of Action on Hearing Loss’s  business aims by providing strategic, operational and financial planning and analysis as a “critical friend” to the Directors and Heads of Service within Commercial Services.  You will work with the Executive Director to build a stretching but achievable 5 year financial strategy, whilst also building budgets to deliver the 5 year financial strategy.

To succeed, you must be a professionally qualified accountant (or equivalent experience) with an analytical approach and ideally experience of the following: budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, scenario modelling, financial analysis, competitor analysis and pricing modelling. You should be an exceptional, natural communicator adept at building rapport with, influencing and challenging non-finance stakeholders at all levels. Strong written and excel skills are also essential.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a dynamic and high impact charity, in a commercially-focused business partnering role.

Closing date:  28th April.

Please note applications will be assessed as soon as they are received, and preliminary interviews may take place prior to the closing date. As such early application is recommended.

For further information or for an informal discussion, please contact David Godfrey on either 0203 031 9627 or davidgodfrey@allenlane.co.uk

Action on Hearing Loss promotes equal opportunities and is positive about employing those with hearing loss or impairment.

Reporting into the CFO and acting in a No.2 capacity, the Group Financial Controller will oversee a team, having overall responsibility for financial operations and accounting, reporting (management and statutory), business planning, budgeting, forecasting and audit.  You will take ownership of the budgeting process, working closely with the finance business partners, the CFO and the Senior Management Team.

You will be a professionally qualified accountant, ideally from a Big 4 or similar background, who has significant financial management experience at a senior level as well as experience of managing large and diverse teams.  You will have experience of leading monthly/annual reporting cycles for a large business. You should be an inspirational leader, who makes themselves visible to all and has experience of achieving results through a strong performance management culture. You will be an excellent communicator who is able to build relationships across the organisation.

Whether currently working in a senior finance role in the not for profit sector, or a similar elsewhere, this role is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive thinking charity during an exciting time of change.

Please apply immediately as interviews may take place prior to the closing date.

The role itself will involve the following tasks:

• Providing a small amount of Personal Assistant support to some of the operational managers
• Helping out with the preparation of various presentations, providing ideas, proof-reading and editing
• Using organisational skills to help out such as diary management, minute-taking, etc.

Interested applicants need not have NHS experience, although this would be ideal but should be competent within the administration field or work.  They should be able to demonstrate a high level of organisational and communication skills, and must not shy away from taking on responsibility and reaching deadlines.

The role will involve :

• Supporting commissioning for all the CCG’s clinical activity
• Delivering robust contracts against a challenging financial backdrop
• Leading a large negotiating team
• In year contractual performance monitoring
• Ensuring contracts deliver to the level negotiated
• Developing relationships with CCGs to understand their contracting priorities and limitations
• Developing a negotiating strategy to deliver robust affordable contracts for CCGs
• Developing effective commissioning relationships with providers, understanding financial drivers
• Ensuring that providers deliver high quality, clinically effective services that meet the expectations of CCGs

The successful candidate will have specialist knowledge of commissioning, procurement, contracting and performance management either within the NHS or a sector with similar complexity.  You will have expert knowledge of NHS finance and operating framework policies and strategic issues that affect commissioning.  You will have excellent client management relationship skills, and you will have  proven track record in developing strategic supplier relationships, market testing, tendering and joint improvement.  You will be a critical thinker with strong analytical and numeracy skills and excellent leadership and people management skills.

You will provide financial support while the organisation goes through a period of change and, as a result, the work is likely to be varied.  The key project initially will be to develop the costing and tariff for the Private Patients Unit of the hospital because the existing one has become outdated in terms of the figures and services it covers.  Your input and insight will help to make sure that the management team has high quality information upon which to base its decisions.  Acting as valued partner to the business, you will ensure an accurate reflection of performance in the accounts and best practice in financial management of the business.

You should be an experienced, ideally qualified, senior management accountant with exposure to an acute NHS environment.  Importantly, you will have significant experience around the costing of services, reflected perhaps in the management of the reference costing process.  First rate communication skills will be crucial in order to quickly build the effective working relationships required to get to grips with the work.

This role offers the opportunity to lend your experience to a changing environment and bring a pragmatic perspective to bear.

The organisation is seeking to commercially develop the large amounts of intellectual property it holds and is establishing a team to examine how they might best approach it. Key parts of the position will include the analysis of potential ventures to understand their potential, followed with the management of the budgets attached to each project and both the development and vetting of the individual business cases depending upon their stage in the cycle. For the developments that make it to the later stages, it is highly likely that you will play a key role in the negotiation of financial agreements.  Key challenges in the position will be in assimilating a large amount of data quickly, being able to identify trends and deliver well thought out advice.

You should be a qualified accountant with excellent academic achievement and significant exposure to the venture capital or incubator industry. Additionally, you are likely to have worked in financial practice and have experience of providing financial advice to different sized businesses. Exposure to the healthcare industry would be an added benefit. Strong written and verbal communication skills are very important owing to the breadth and varying levels of contacts you will have to maintain.

This position offers a very rare opportunity to guide the set up of a team, its remit and its processes and ultimately, the provision of a new service to this organisation.

Working closely with an external firm of consultants, this role will include:

• Delivering a Strategic Outline Case
• Completing Due Diligence
• Developing an Outline Business Case and Full Business Case and supporting documents, including the Strategy for the joint entity and a Post-merger Integration Plan
• Providing risk assurance of the proposed acquisition
• Advising on organisational readiness and cultural “fit”
• Plans for post-merger integration and organisational structure.

The successful applicant would be a senior finance professional, holding a CCAB qualification with significant costing, modelling and due diligence experience, ideally with the NHS or Healthcare sector.  You will have exceptional communication skills and the credibility to successfully influence and report on issues relating to the merger with the Trust’s Executive Team.  You will be able to demonstrate experience of strategic financial modelling at a high level and the ability to carry out effective assessment of impact to income and  expenditure, balance sheet and Financial Risk Ratings.  You will have common sense, professionalism and initiative as well as experience of due diligence and merger and acquisition activity within a public sector context.

Your responsibilities will include managing the charity’s financial resources, overseeing all financial reporting, statutory accounting and business planning, as well as ensuring the integrity of financial control and transactional financial activity.  You will work closely with the Chief Executive and leadership team to ensure the financial strategies are well aligned to those of the organisation, identifying financial risks, and maximising established systems and procedures.

To succeed, you must be an ambitious, professionally qualified accountant with significant experience operating at a senior level either within a charity or international business. You will have strong leadership skills and be a confident and assertive communicator and business partner. Your strengths will include change management and your track record of improvement will be needed as you influence the wider change undertaken by the charity by influencing at all levels and in particular, how your departments operate in a more effective manner.

Interested applicants should be part-qualified and should have some previous NHS experience.

The role itself will involve the following tasks:      

• Producing and analysing monthly budget statements
• Prioritising and resolving queries from budget holders
• Attending regular budget holder meetings and providing challenge where budgets are overspent

Interested applicants should be able to prioritise and organise their workload so as to be able to keep to tight deadlines.  They should also be able to demonstrate a confident and professional style of communication due to the weekly meetings with budget holders which are necessary.

Key responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for the financial management and analysis for the £45 million division
• Lead on relationships with Senior Management Team providing crucial business partnering
• Provide business case analysis for new ventures
• Implement and adapt financial processes to respond to organisational changes

The successful candidate will be fully qualified with an impressive academic background. Coming from a complex commercial or Not-for-Profit environment you will have already developed a strong sense of best practice in management accounting. Strong Excel skills and a robust personality are also essential.

Interested applicants should be part-qualified and should ideally have some previous NHS experience.

The role itself will involve the following tasks:

• Completing the Agreement of Balances as required by Department of Health
• Assisting in producing the quarterly returns and year-end accounts including providing detailed working notes
• Producing and clearing out balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis and investigating variances along with providing explanations and solutions

Interested applicants should be able to demonstrate pro-activity in their approach to work and should be able to take on added responsibilities outside of their work, when needed.  They should also show their ability to look at data in detail and be able to give valid examples of when and how this has been done in the past.

Key skills to include:

• Negotiating with developers and housing associations to secure the appropriate level and mix of affordable housing on development sites
• Conducting financial appraisals of development schemes to assess scheme viability to ensure the maximum level of affordable housing is provided, and as part of options appraisals for new development models or use of existing assets
• Experience of financial appraisal using GLA development control toolkit and/or Proval or similar
• Negotiating amendments to nomination agreements and S106 agreements and instructing Legal officers in the same
• Experience of housing development procedures from pre-planning application to practical completion stage, including land acquisition and the planning process for submission of applications for residential developments
• Experience of securing funding for affordable housing from various sources, including the Homes and Communities Agency procedures
• Project management of housing development projects including the above processes
• Appointment of consultants and contractors for housing development schemes

You will have extensive experience in a similar role preferably from a Local Authority background.

Providing financial support to the business transformation team, you will provide analysis and mapping of the current global business operations.

The successful candidate will be ACA qualified and have a strong grounding in process improvement and documentation. The ability to build and understand complex Excel spread sheet models is essential.

You will work closely with the clinical staff within the directorate, supporting them in the following ways:

• Financial management and reporting on income and expenditure
• Line management of 2 staff
• Advising on procurement and business cases
• Developing cost savings plans for the directorate
• Developing strong relationships with clinical service colleagues and the wider finance team
• Forecasting and financial planning

You will be a qualified accountant with experience in Senior Financial Management within the acute sector, ideally for a complex clinical directorate.  You will be familiar with NHS income and Payment By Results, reporting and forecasting.  You will be confident and approachable in developing relationships with clinical leads and you will be self sufficient and used to working on your own initiative.  You will have a common sense approach and experience in working with clinical directorates to successfully reduce costs without affecting patient care.

Due to the promotion of the previous post holder, my client requires a highly motivated and exceptional individual to take on the post, ideally with relevant Trust experience.

Reporting to the Director of Finance, responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring and reporting of the overall financial performance of the Trust whilst also reviewing their CIPs targets
• Ensure efficient and effective operational management of the Finance, Procurement and Commissioning teams, ensuring that key priorities are met within timescales and budget
• Deputise for the DIrector of FiInance on a whole range of their portfolio when needed
• Support the Director of Finance and and Executive Board with their Foundation Trust application

Applicants must be able to demonstrate significant experience and expertise in NHS Finance and ideally within a complex and high performing organisation. They must also have a strong business acumen and knowledge of the Foundation Trust process.

The Resources Directorate provides the majority of central support services (such as Finance, Human Resources, Legal and IT) to the rest of the organisation. The project looking at the future shape of the Directorate is currently undertaking an options appraisal for future delivery models such as the transformation of existing services, outsourcing, partnering and sharing central support services in the medium term.

You will be working with the Project Manager to understand the current cost base of these services and to evaluate future costs under different scenarios and options to include in the initial Business Case.

Key Skills:

• A fully qualified CCAB accountant

• Experience of providing financial support and advice to medium/large complex and politically sensitive projects
• Advanced technical financial skills such as options appraisal, financial modelling, scenario planning, and activity based costing
• The ability to intelligently extract, manipulate and question relevant financial data from the core financial system (working knowledge of SAP Financials is desirable)
• Knowledge of other financial and support systems is desirable
• A self-starter able to work on their own initiative

My client is looking for someone who can start as soon as possible for a period of three months (highly likely to extend for a further month) while they undertake the recruitment to the permanent role.

As the first appointment of the new CEO, you will directly report to this position with a remit to influence and effect change throughout the business and indeed the industry. You will have a demonstrable record in 'Pure Change' with capability to lead on organisational, cultural and IT change programmes. Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with Enterprise Architects to establish a clear vision, outcomes, and deliverables for the programme
• Ensuring an appropriate target data strategy, design, and execution plan is established
• Develop and manage the programme delivery strategy and roadmap
• Develop the multi-phase programme implementation plan and rigorously monitoring progress, identifying issues and constraints and escalate as required to remove any roadblocks or resolve any issues
• Develop, issue, and manage requirements specifications for CRM, Case Management, and Document Management
• Develop, issue, and evaluate invitations to tender for a third party client partner, solution providers, and a systems implementation partner and associated commercial negotiation
• Develop and manage the programme business case, and associated costs and benefits
• Identify and manage intra-programme and other dependencies (including interfaces with other systems)

To apply for this exciting position that can be considered as a contract or permanent post (depending on the applicant), please submit your CV with a supporting statement covering your aptitude and relevance to the above paragraph.

Key duties:

• Be responsible for a minimum of 2 major ICT projects, ensuring successful transformational change through implementation of new policies, systems and procedures across the full range of public facing and back office services
• Support key areas and performance management of the Council’s ICT projects portfolio, as assigned
• Provide a professional, proactive and commercially focused approach to ICT project delivery across all Council Departments through the agreed service standards set out in the ICT Strategy and other service transformation strategies

You will have a proven track record of IT project delivery, and come from a technical background, with ideally local government or public sector experience.

Strong stakeholder engagement and experience of managing third party suppliers is also key.

Working with the finance team primarily and other stakeholders across the organisation, you will be responsible for ensuring that the data being delivered by the PLICS system is robust enough to go out to the business.  Beyond this, the position will include improving the system to ensure the accuracy and credibility of information, which is needed to bring improved management tools to the organisation.  This will lead to the analysis of information and the examination of business impacts.  This is an excellent and rare opportunity to become involved in an interesting project which aims to work towards a leading Patient Level Information Costing System.

You should be an experienced costing accountant with substantial exposure to PLICS, gained within the NHS.  This is important because the trust is seeking to step up from its current SLR systems and wants to bring in this experience.  Previous exposure to B-Plan, PSCAL or Civica would be helpful. You should be able to demonstrate initiative and a track record of adding value to projects and attention to detail.  Key to the position will be good communication skills as you will be working with a wide range of people at different levels.

This represents a terrific opening at a forward thinking Trust and would add weight to your resume.