Management Accountant

Package Description

As a Management Accountant at HCRG Care Group, you will play a pivotal role in our Finance team.  In addition to this impactful position, you will have access to a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including:

• Salary of between £40,000 - £45,000 with group pension 
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

HCRG Care Group is a leading national provider of health and social care services. We are committed to making a positive difference in communities by delivering high-quality, effective, and sustainable care. We’re seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Management Accountant to join our team on a fixed-term contract, supporting the financial performance of two key Business Units within our organisation.

As a Management Accountant, you will play a vital role within our finance team, delivering impactful financial analysis, supporting decision-making, and enhancing the performance of the business units. Working closely with a diverse team, you’ll serve as the first point of contact for financial support for operational teams and senior stakeholders, providing insights and analysis to drive performance, manage costs, and support financial reporting.

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact within a collaborative team and are passionate about using your financial expertise to support high-quality care services, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a positive difference in communities.

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact within a collaborative team and are passionate about using your financial expertise to support high-quality care services, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a positive difference in communities!

Base

This roles offers hybrid working between Homeworking and County Hall, Chelmsford. 

This role is a Fixed-Term position until July 2025, and requires a driving license and access to a car for work purposes 

Main Responsibilities

• Provide proactive and reactive financial analysis to support business performance.
• Improve and standardise financial reporting across the organisation.
• Conduct ad hoc financial analysis for key stakeholders.
• Support monthly service and business unit performance reviews.
• Manage and monitor workforce spend against budget.
• Act as the main financial contact for operational teams, with regular site visits.
• Assist Group Finance with accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Coach non-financial staff on understanding financial results.
• Maintain procedural notes for cross-team support.
• Collaborate with the Finance Control Team on revenue, cash flow, and compliance.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

To succeed in this role, candidates should meet the following essential and desirable criteria, demonstrating both technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills:

Essential

Technical

• Minimum AAT qualified with extensive experience in a similar role
• Experience of accounts preparation from TB to final accounts
• Advanced Microsoft Excel user
• Fully IT literate, able to adopt new systems with ease
• Driving license and access to car

Capabilities

• Positive attitude and ability to work in a team
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure of tight deadlines
• Ability to work in a dynamic reporting environment and adapt to change
• Confidence to challenge operational management when appropriate
• Ability to build strong relationships with site based operational contacts
• Must be able to clearly explain/interpret complex financial issue to non-financial operational contacts

Desirable

• Relevant systems experience (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Proactis, iTrent)
• NHS/Care sector experience

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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