Head of Financial Accounting

3 weeks ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom Derbyshire Support Facilities Services Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the finance team to help shape our next chapter as we continue to grow as a team.

The Head of Financial Accounting is a key member of the finance and wider leadership team. This role acts as the lead for all aspects of financial accounting with responsibility for financial reporting and governance, technical accounting advice and leading the year end accounts process.

You will be a qualified CCAB / CIMA accountant (or Masters equivalent) with at least 5 years post qualification experience at a senior level, show evidence of leadership training and staff management, have excellent communication skills and display a passion for staff development.

Salary depends on experience and also has a competitive company matched pension via secure government NEST scheme.
- To lead and manage the Financial Accounting function to deliver a top-quality service.
- Develop and maintain effective reporting of group financial accounting information to Trust regulators, Derbyshire System and a range of internal stakeholders including the Trust's Director of Finance, Hospital Leadership Team, Finance and Performance Committee and Trust Board.
- Leadership and responsibility for the capital, financial systems, payroll, and financial services teams.
- Ensure that a robust financial governance framework exists and ensure tax compliance with HMRC.
- Provision of expert financial accounting and technical advice and support for complex business cases.
- Provide strong leadership to the team including staff management and development, ensuring that training needs are identified and met, that effective succession planning is introduced and that the staff are equipped to deliver high quality services.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

For full details of this exciting role please refer to the full Job Description and Personal Specification attached to this vacancy.



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