Hospital Accountant

Hospital Accountant | Private Hospital | Management Accountant | Permanent | Full-time | Southampton

Spire Southampton Hospital have an exciting opportunity for a Management Accountant to join our team on a Full Time, Permanent basis. In this pivotal role you will work as part of a team to support accountancy processes for the business.

The main focus of this role is to provide accurate and meaningful management accounts information for the hospitals, focusing on cost control and increasing the level of understanding of spend across all departments.

Spire Southampton Hospital offers world-class care, attracting patients from across the South of England and internationally. We deliver some of the best cardiac surgery results in the country. Our Critical Care department and multidisciplinary team offer you peace of mind for our wide range of treatments.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Delivering month end, including tasks such as preparation of monthly payroll and revenue recognition journals including accruals, prepayments and reconciliation of balance sheet control accounts.
• Preparing cost centre reports and scheduling review meetings with key stakeholders to drive improved cost control and efficiency.
• Functional reporting dashboards and reporting including remedial action tracking and continuous improvement roadmaps.
• Preparing Capital Expenditure requests for submission to central finance. Implementing a capital expenditure 5 year plan review process to be updated quarterly.
• Provide financial modelling to aid decision making to maximise profitability and revenue.
• Provide meaningful and practical information about the hospitals cost base and identify opportunities to drive improvements to deliver increased profitability. Implement and manage these cost control plans to ensure benefit is delivered to the P&L.
• Work with hospital management teams to ensure that locally controlled customer pricing is robust, profitable and all revenue is recognised.

Who we're looking for:

• CIMA / ACCA Part Qualified – aiming for completion by 2026
• Substantial experience in a similar finance/ management accountancy role
• Knowledge of balance sheets, P&L and financial reporting
• Able to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines and escalate issues where appropriate
• PC literate, able to adopt and contribute, where required, to the introduction and development of new systems.
• Intermediate Excel skills
• High degree of accuracy and a methodical approach to workload

Benefits:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free off-site car park

We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Our Values:

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Closing Date: If we have received sufficient applications, this date may be brought forward so please submit your application as soon as possible.