Facilities Finance Business Partner

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Manchester is seeking a Financial Management Accountant to provide financial support to Estates and Facilities functions. The ideal candidate will be CCAB qualified with strong numerical and analytical skills. This full-time fixed-term role offers a salary between £55,690 and £62,682 per year and requires experience in leading change within the NHS environment.

Qualifications

• CCAB Qualified Accountant, with evidenced ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
• Understanding of the NHS and its infrastructure.
• Experience in leading change management regimes.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial information support to the allocated Estates and Facilities functions.
• Ensure accurate delivery of financial information.
• Act as the Financial Management Accountant for financial balance.

Skills

Strong numerical skills

Strong analytical skills

Negotiating and influencing skills

Ability to use written communication

Good IT skills

Education

CCAB Qualified Accountant

ECDL or equivalent IT Skills

MBA or similar (desirable)

Job description

Job summary

The post-holder will provide high quality financial information support and advice to the allocated Estates and Facilities functions, thereby assisting the Managers to achieve their financial objectives.

In performance of these duties, to ensure the accurate and timely delivery of a suite of financial information that enables the allocated Facilities functions, and the Trust, to provide an efficient and effective service within the resources available.

Main duties of the job

Budgetary Control and Financial Advice

To act as the Financial Management Accountant with the objective of ensuring that the Facilities function achieves financial balance in accordance with the Trust's corporate financial objectives.

To formulate, agree and set realistic and deliverable activity (where applicable), income and expenditure budgets for the Facilities functions in consultation with the Facilities functions' Management Teams and Directorate Management Teams, in accordance with Trust policies and strategies.

To provide active support to ensure that all Facilities functions' savings targets are underpinned with substantive, recurrent and deliverable solutions, reporting progress against such targets, whilst proactively seeking solutions for forthcoming saving targets.

To promote and lead financial awareness amongst staff across the Facilities functions' and provide training as appropriate. To ensure that awareness of the Trust's Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions and financial procedures is promoted and to ensure the Finance team and Facilities functions' business processes enable these to be adhered to. To work with the Trust's Internal Audit function to ensure that any recommendations relating to the efficiency and probity of control functions are implemented.

To negotiate with other organisations over any financial aspects of service delivery.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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 30,000 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.

Details

Date posted: 01 October 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 6 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 349-COR-7518097C-RL4

Job locations: Cobbett House, Manchester, M13 9WL

Job 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• CCAB Qualified Accountant, with evidenced on-going Continuing Professional Development
• ECDL or equivalent IT Skills

Desirable

• MBA or similar

Specialist Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the NHS, its infrastructure and partner organisations
• Understanding of the wider NHS Management and Modernisation Agenda
• Understanding of the NHS and Foundation Trust Financial Regime
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment
• Experience in leading change management regimes

Desirable

• Experience of working in the acute sector
• NHS General Management experience
• Experience of finance support to estates & facilities
• Experience of PFI contracts or other complex SLAs

Skills

Essential

• Strong numerical skills
• Able to deduce key points from large/complex volumes of numerical and other data
• Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture including future scenario planning
• Able to use written communication to present relevant information in a concise format
• Ability to engage verbally and effectively with disciplines at all levels within the organisation
• Negotiating and influencing skills of the highest order
• Ability to use a range of computerised systems to a good level
• Understand and interpret Department of Health Guidelines

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.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.