Assistant Finance Manager (Financial Management)

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Wakefield is seeking an Assistant Finance Manager to join their award-winning Finance Team. The role involves providing financial support to various departments, assisting in budget calculations, and driving innovative solutions within the finance sector. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in handling complex financial information. The Trust offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development, including funding for accounting qualifications and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Generous study package for accounting qualifications

NHS pension plan

Employee health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience handling complex financial and non-financial information.
• Ability to design and format spreadsheets to meet specific requirements.
• Experience in reconciliation and reporting procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing financial support and advice.
• Budget calculation and input to financial systems.
• Attend management meetings and provide financial support on business cases.

Skills

Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel

Excellent inter-personal and communication skills

Ability to analyse and interpret complex information

Education

Part qualified CCAB or equivalent experience

Job description

Assistant Finance Manager (Financial Management)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the award winning Finance Team at The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust as Assistant Finance Manager.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, forwarding thinking individual to provide a first class service for the NHS. The department is looking to inspire, encourage and support individuals in their development either through on the job learning and/or through supporting more formal development.

We offer a generous study package for individuals wishing to pursue their accounting professional qualifications. This includes 100% funding for tuition, revision and exam fees with paid study leave.

We recognise the need to develop modern working practices to enable our employees to maximise their performance and productivity whilst maintaining a good work life balance and have adopted an Agile working methodology.

You will be joining a dynamic and forward thinking Finance Department with a strong emphasis on innovation and continuous improvement. We have achieved Level 2 One NHS Finance Accreditation and are looking to secure Level 3 accreditation in the near future.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist in the provision of financial support and advice to Trust Directorates working with non-finance leaders, which include Associate Directors of Operations, Divisional Leads and Directorate managers to establish a sound basis for the planning and development of service changes.

In doing so the post will ensure the department supports the Trust in the achievement of its statutory financial duties, and helping us on our journey to make the Mid Yorkshire Finance Department a great, innovative and diverse place to work.

Key Result Areas:

• Budget calculation and input to financial systems
• Costing of service and directorate based budget holder services & developments
• Investigation of expenditure and category C income financial codes
• Detailed analysis of complex service areas
• Identification and calculation of prepayments and accruals
• Attend management/budget holder meetings
• Provide financial support on business cases, value for money exercises and national returns
• Day to day Staff supervision
• Reconciliation of control accounts
• Year End Accounting

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities

Qualifications

• Part qualified CCAB or experience at the appropriate level

Experience

• Experience within a role handling, validating and processing complex financial and non-financial information
• Experience of handling confidential information
• Experience in a range of financial and non-financial areas (e.g. reconciliation and balances, finance computer systems, coding structures, spreadsheets, finance ledgers, reporting and procedures)

Specialist Knowledge/Skills

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel
• Knowledge of accounting legislation that is relevant to financial management (e.g. IFRS)
• Ability to design and format spreadsheets to meet specific requirements and handle large amounts of data

Personal Attributes

• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills using persuasion and negotiation to good effect
• Ability to analyse and interpret information which is often complex
• Ability to work to own initiative and organise own workload without supervision, both working to specified timescales and fulfilling ad hoc requests, adhering to relevant policies and procedures
• Self-aware and committed to continual professional and personal development
• Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision

Other Requirements

• Committed to continual quality and service improvement

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.