Management Accountant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a qualified accountant supporting the Finance Business Partner in providing financial management services. The post holder will contribute to budget setting, financial reporting, and monitoring returns to Welsh Government. They will also maintain and develop financial management systems, provide strategic financial advice, and manage staff within the Management Accounts section. The role involves working independently at a senior level and providing financial management support to a significant service area.
Key responsibilities
- Contribute to the preparation of the Health Board's annual budget setting, monthly finance reports and financial monitoring returns.
- Take the lead role in the maintenance and development of sound financial management systems.
- Provide strategic financial and business case advice, analysing complex financial information.
- Manage staff within the Management Accounts section.
- Be responsible for financial reporting and providing advice for revenue budgets and development proposals.
- Proactively contribute to the management of financial performance for a portfolio of budgets.
Essential criteria
- Qualified (CCAB) Accountancy Qualification.
- Management accounting experience
- Significant experience of budgetary management
- Use judgement on day-to-day priorities and operate on an individual basis
- Making decisions based on judgement and experience where there exists a wide range of options and where there is often highly complex and contradictory information to inform the situations
- Ability to work with and analyse a wide range of both financial and non financial information in order to present meaningful information with a view to influencing decision making
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues
- Excellent interpersonal skills to understand, influence and persuade internal and external parties effectively
- Ability to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation in both verbal and written form.
- Ability to analyse and interpret results and explain to non-finance staff
- Ability to work independently with minimal day-to-day supervision.
- Able to work on own initiative, organise and prioritising own others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines
- Flexible approach to workload
- Ability to manage time to allow the progression and completion of multiple ongoing tasks
- Attention to detail Self motivated with ability to work on own initiative
- Demonstrate PTHB Values
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience of, and exposure to NHS Financial management accounting systems
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate
- Ability to speak Welsh
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £50,129 – £57,365 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 5d ago · Closes in 10d
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Powys Teaching Health Board
Management Accountant
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant, this post supports the Finance Business Partner to provide sound Financial Management services to meet the requirements of financial reporting and control at Health Board and service level.
The post holder will be required to:
Contribute to the preparation of the Health Board's annual budget setting, monthly finance reports and the production of the monthly financial monitoring returns to Welsh Government.
Work unsupervised at a senior level and use own initiative to make decisions with only occasional reference to own line manager.
Take the lead role in the maintenance and development of sound financial management systems and will have specialist knowledge of all aspects of financial management within the NHS regime.
Provide strategic financial and business case advice and will be expected to analyse and interpret highly complex financial management information to provide policy direction for the Health Board within areas of expertise.
Develop plans and persuasively communicate complex financial information.
Manage staff within the Management Accounts section.
Within agreed areas of accountability, be responsible for financial reporting and the provision of advice to others, for revenue budgets and the financial im
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