Birmingham office
UHY Hacker Young (Birmingham) LLP
9-11 Vittoria Street
Birmingham
B1 3ND
General Enquiries:
Tel: 0121 233 4799
Fax: 0121 233 4794
The Birmingham office of UHY Hacker Young Chartered Accountants offers a range of personal and corporate accountancy services to individuals and organisations throughout Birmingham and the Midlands.
The Birmingham office was formed when accountancy firm Winross joined the UHY Hacker Young Group on 2nd January 2001.
The practice, renamed UHY Hacker Young Chartered Accountants, was established by partners Malcolm Winston and Ann Harrison in 1989. In addition to internal audit and general practice work, we advise a number of plc's and also undertake substantial volumes of activity for The States of Jersey Government. Our partners and twelve support staff spend as many as a hundred days each year working in the Channel Islands.
Our accountancy services include general accountancy practice and advice, tax advice and planning, internal and computer audit, VAT, financial reporting, business planning, bookkeeping and payroll, management accounting and personal financial planning.
Malcolm Winston is the Senior Partner at the UHY Hacker Young Birmingham office. Ann Harrison is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants. She and the firm have successfully created a portfolio of clients in the public sector, including Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Acute Health Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts and Local Authorities.
Specialist areas
Public sector organisations operate in a dynamic and highly regulated environment. Our Birmingham office, through their public sector consultancy arm, FourSight at www.foursightconsultants.com are able to provide expert financial advice on health and Local Government matters, comprising the following:
Health
Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs)
- Outsourcing staff on an interim management basis from one month to one year;
- our specialist staff can undertake financial management consultancy assignments;
- preparing monthly and year end financial accounts;
- managing hosted organisation budgets;
- managing treasury functions;
- assisting with reorganising the commissioning arms of SHAs;
- business case evaluation.
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)
- Interim management support from director of finance position to junior accounting staff;
- providing IFRS implementation advice, including a detailed financial impact assessment and restatement of opening balance sheets;
- providing year end financial and monthly management accounts support;
- performing detailed investigations on the financial effects of implementing changes in Government policy such as the implementation of the New NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare;
- managing primary and secondary healthcare budgets;
- managing the commissioning finance functions
- managing the separation of commissioner and provider functions;
- representing PCT’s on National Finance Groups;
- business case evaluation;
- completion of 5 year financial plans.
Acute and Mental Health Trusts
- Interim financial management support from director of finance to junior accounting staff;
- commissioning reviews to determine the effect of Payment by Results (PbR) on Trusts budgets;
- managing turnaround and recovery process for Trusts;
- developing zero based budgeting models;
- providing financial support for business cases for the modernisation of secondary and primary health care services based on the Treasury Green Book;
- producing reference costs based on standard methodology;
- costing of healthcare services for use in budgets;
- monitoring performance of Service Level Agreements (SLA);
- providing year end financial and monthly management accounts support.
General Practioners
- Developing pricing models for GP practices, to enable GP practices to tender for Equitable Access in Primary Care Medical Services (EAPC);
- preparing monthly and year end financial accounts;
- providing tax advice;
- providing financial advice to GP practices to enable maximisation of income from PCT’s.
Local Government
City Councils
- Project managing the implementation of new financial systems;
- performing financial IT systems reviews;
- managing hosted organisation budgets;
- managing the pooling of budgets in Intermediate Care between the City Council and Health and Social Services;
- interim financial management support.
District Councils
- Providing interim management support;
- undertaking benchmarking exercises to ensure Council activities are efficient and provide value for money;
- providing year end and monthly management accounts support.
Town and Parish Councils
- External auditors to over 350 Town and Parish Councils;
- providing advice on Local Government Standing Financial Instructions.
Graduate Recruitment Enquiries
