Facilities Finance Business Partner | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Manchester is seeking a Financial Management Accountant to deliver high-quality financial information and support. Responsibilities include formulating budgets, ensuring financial balance, and providing training to staff. Candidates should have experience in financial management, especially within healthcare. The Trust offers a supportive culture and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Inclusive workplace

Work-life balance support

Qualifications

• Experience in financial management within healthcare settings.
• Ability to deliver timely financial reports.
• Strong understanding of financial procedures and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure financial balance for Facilities functions.
• Formulate and set budgets for Facilities functions.
• Provide financial awareness training to staff.
• Work with Internal Audit to implement recommendations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budget management

Communication

Negotiation

Training others

Job description

Overview

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.

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 MFT

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn 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 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.

Candidate Information

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 [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025