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Join Our Finance Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated finance professional to join Norfolk and Suffolk ICB Mental Health & Corporate Finance Team as a Lead Management Accountant.
This key role will provide high-quality financial management support across a portfolio of services within the Corporate & Mental Health directorates, helping to ensure the delivery of financially sustainable healthcare services across the system. Reporting within the Finance & Contracts Directorate, you will play a leading role in financial planning, budget management, financial reporting, business case development, and service improvement initiatives.
If you are a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills, experience of management accounting, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading management accounting support for designated service areas (Corporate)
- Producing accurate and timely financial and activity reports
- Supporting annual budget setting and financial planning processes
- Monitoring financial performance, risks, and cost improvement programmes
- Providing financial input into business cases and service developments
- Undertaking month-end processes and contract validation activities
- Managing complex financial queries and advising budget holders
- Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes and reporting
- Supporting staff development and contributing to a high-performing finance team
Interested?
If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can use your financial expertise to support better outcomes for our population, we'd encourage you to apply.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact
James Grainger : james.grainger1@nhs.net
Mark Clinton: mark.clinton1@nhs.net
About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9 billion to commission safe, high quality and accessible health services for 1.7 million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.
We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.
Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joined up care.
Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an older than average population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.
Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joined up, patient centred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to high quality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Details
- Date posted: 10 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Flexible working
- Reference number: D0003-ICB021
- Job locations: Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH, United Kingdom, Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board, Endeavour House, Russell Road, IPSWICH, IP1 2BX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Ability to travel to places of work that may not be accessible by public transport.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or plus further management experience or training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent.
- CCAB or CIMA qualified (evidence of membership) or significant equivalent experience.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level.
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Understanding of the public sector.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.
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This advert is for NS 22.30 Lead Management Accountant with NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board in Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board; Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Band 7 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Aug 2026.
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