Finance Manager - Financial Accounts

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Clitheroe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local health care trust in Clitheroe seeks a Financial Accountant to manage staff and oversee financial accounting processes. Key responsibilities include supporting the formulation of balance sheet forecasts, managing capital budgetary control, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. This role offers excellent development and training opportunities within a supportive environment. The ideal candidate will have a degree in finance and proven experience in financial analysis and team management.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in managing financial accounts and staff.
• Strong understanding of capital budgeting and reporting.
• Ability to facilitate training sessions.

Responsibilities

• Manage staffing and performance reviews.
• Support financial accounting and forecasting.
• Ensure regulatory compliance in capital asset management.
• Prepare annual accounts for the Charity Commission.

Skills

Team management

Financial analysis

Budgetary control

Communication

Training development

Education

Degree in Finance or related field

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manages, organises and supports staff effectively through work planning, 1:1 meetings and appraisals, including performance and productivity monitoring, and undertakes sample checking to comply with service standards and audits.
• To take a leading role in systems redesign across financial accounts. This will include the use of new technologies, systems and workflow techniques.
• To provide a comprehensive financial accounting and support service to the Trust, providing a full range of advice, information and analysis as required.
• To support the Financial Accountant in the formulation and co‑ordination of balance sheet and cash flow forecasting whilst adhering to corporate standards and timetables.
• To take active steps to encourage, support and promote a culture of development, improving and learning, ensuring that effective personal development and appraisal systems are used as part of the Directorate’s training plan to enable continuous improvement in performance standards, training and development of Financial Accounts staff.
• To support senior finance staff in the completion of the Trusts capital reporting requirements.
• To support Capital and Divisional Managers with maintaining capital budgetary control, including the provision of training and development and resolving issues.
• Responsible for the maintenance of the Trusts capital asset register and capital charging systems in accordance with the DOH Group Accounting Manual. To update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information to monitor capital spend and ensure the financial reporting systems reconcile monthly.
• Responsible for supplying capital information (acquisitions, disposals, transfers, valuations) for the completion of the Trust’s accounts and to advise on the financial implications of disposing and purchasing assets.
• To manage the timely submission of the Charitable Fund annual accounts and related returns to the Charity Commission, external auditors and the Charitable Fund Committee together with the provision of all financial information required for the Charity’s Annual report.

Do you want to work at a trust which is at the heart of the Greater Manchester health and social care network – but that is as friendly as a district general hospital or local health centre?

Are you looking for a place to work that is classed amongst the best in the region for several of the services it provides – but without having to travel into the city centre every day?

Are you interested in some of the best training opportunities in the North West, with leading consultants in a trust developing its research portfolio – but with a management team who value the personal approach?

Then look no further than Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. Situated in a borough of 275,000 people, the Trust is part of the expanding ‘Northern Powerhouse’.

Contact for further details

Name: Sharon Freeman, Job title: Financial Accountant, Email: [e-mail], Telephone number: 01204390390. Call me on Teams