Job summary
Employer heading
Management Accounts Officer
Band 5
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Financial Management Officer to join the Financial Management function in Clinical and Scientific Services (CSS). Based out of Trafford General Hospital, the Financial Management Officer will support our Finance Team and Directorate operational teams. If successful, you will be a key member of our Team with responsibility for the completion of month end tasks and supporting operational managers with day to day budget management.
You will also contribute to the development of the Finance Team and lead and support other aspects of the wider finance agenda.
Main duties of the job
· The post holder will be required to support the FBP and DFBP in maintaining the Trust Directorate budgets.
· Plan own work to ensure deadlines are met.
- The post holder will be required to communicate with all staff groups within the finance function. The role will also demand communication/negotiation and effective working relationships with staff from all disciplines, providing and receiving complex and confidential financial information.
- Lead on ensuring that the reporting of month end information is available with pre-determined deadlines, ensuring high quality information.
· Responsible for co-ordinating the production of information relating to the Directorate budgets and provide advice to the appropriate budget holders.
- Work within a customer focused culture with a particular emphasis on providing clear and timely information to non-finance managers.
- To continually review work procedures and make changes to improve the information provided to budget holders.
- The post holder must be able to use their own initiative and work with limited supervision.
- The post holder will need to be competent in the use of spreadsheets, databases and word processing software.
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their career goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from an extraordinary scale of opportunity.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB professional qualification to certificate level, NVQ Level 5, AAT Member, or equivalent. Alternatively, equivalent job-related knowledge and experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Management Accounting: Coordinates the monthly production of income and expenditure budget statements.
- Detailed understanding of software packages used
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of financial management and budgetary management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of NHS finance would be advantageous
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- As per person specification
Desirable criteria
- As per person specification
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zubair Wali
- Job title
- Deputy Finance Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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