Senior Financial Accounting Assistant- Treasury Management
Closed for applications on: 8-Apr-2024 00:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Apr-2024 00:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- Finance and Procurement Business Unit, Trafford General Hospital
- Address
- Moorside Road
- Town
- Davyhulme, Manchester
- Postcode
- M41 5SL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Finance
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Accounting Assistant to join our busy Financial Services Team.
We’re excited to be recruiting for a passionate and driven Senior FInancial Accounting Assistant to be an integral part of a high-quality Financial Services Function.
We are looking for an individual who is an experienced, highly organised and motivated individual, who likes to work on their own but can work well as part of a team with a ‘positive can-do attitude and a passion for giving back. You’ll be responsible for providing financial support to the Deputy Financial Accountant and Financial Accountant, managing your own workload and providing complex information as required.
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These duties cover tasks relating to financial accounting, treasury management, staff management and other general responsibilities.
Please see job description for further details.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Support the Deputy Financial Accountant to drive process improvement within the Financial Services team
- Responsible for the coordination of all Financial Services management information required for inclusion in the Monthly Board reports
- Where required ensure the production of other Financial Services Reporting is in line with requirement e.g. FOI requests
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. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
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!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- ECDL
- Part qualified CCAB/CIMA or AAT qualified
Desirable criteria
- CCAB qualified
- Demonstrable post qualification development and achievement of CPD
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of the NHS and the Trust Financial Regime
- • Understand and be able to interpret relevant accounting standards and other guidance.
- • Knowledge of matters relating to Indirect Taxation.
- • Demonstrable experience of working at a senior level across a range of finance functions.
- • Demonstrable experience of working with a computerised accounting package.
- • A knowledge of all applications found in “Microsoft Office”.
- • Ability to create complex spread sheets.
Desirable criteria
- • Understanding of the “benefits system” and the criterion for eligibility.
- • Knowledge of the Data Protection Act and legal requirement under Probate.
- • Working knowledge of Integra Ledger system.
- • Staff management experience.
- • Experience of working within an NHS Finance Department.
Numeracy Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the ability to complete complex calculations.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyse and interpret financial information.
Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to communicate facts and ideas to others effectively in both written and verbal form.
- • Ability to lead a team that works with others cooperatively in a way which secures a high level of commitment, trust and energy.
- • Positive, ‘can do’ attitude.
- • Good customer service skills and the ability to deal objectively with complaints.
- • Commitment to own personal development and that of the wider section.
Others
Essential criteria
- • Ability to plan and organize time in order to deliver quality output to agreed timescales and resources.
- • Strong project management skills.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alex Clements
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Financial Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07495774112
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Parkway 1
- Parkway Business Centre
- Recruitment Office 1st Floor
- Princess Road
- Manchester
- M14 7LU
- Telephone
- Resourcing Department: 0161 276 6198
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