Management Accounts Officer

NHS; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Manchester is looking for a Financial Management Officer to handle budget management and support the Finance Team. The role involves month-end tasks and ensuring high-quality financial reporting. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and strong IT skills, specifically in Excel. This full-time position offers flexibility in working arrangements and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Management Accounting experience with monthly budget statements.
• Knowledge of financial management and budgetary management.
• Experience in an acute trust setting.

Responsibilities

• Support financial budgeting and reporting duties.
• Coordinate the production of income and expenditure budgets.
• Maintain effective working relationships with non-finance managers.

Skills

Strong IT skills

Good communication

Interpersonal skills

Ability to analyse financial information

Education

CCAB professional qualification to certificate level

Tools

Microsoft Office suite

Integra Financial Ledger System

Job description

Go back Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Financial Management Officer to join the Financial Management function in Specialist Hospitals Clinical Group (SHCG). Based out of Oxford Road Campus, the Financial Management Officer will support our Finance Team and Directorate operational teams. If successful, you will be a key member of our Team with responsibility for the completion of month end tasks and supporting operational managers with day to day budget management. You will also contribute to the development of the Finance Team and lead and support other aspects of the wider finance agenda.

The closing date is 13 October 2025

Main duties

• The post holder will be required to support the FBP and DFBP in maintaining the Trust Directorate budgets.
• Plan own work to ensure deadlines are met.
• The post holder will be required to communicate with all staff groups within the finance function. The role will also demand communication/negotiation and effective working relationships with staff from all disciplines, providing and receiving complex and confidential financial information.
• Lead on ensuring that the reporting of month end information is available with pre-determined deadlines, ensuring high quality information.
• Responsible for co-ordinating the production of information relating to the Directorate budgets and provide advice to the appropriate budget holders.
• Work within a customer focused culture with a particular emphasis on providing clear and timely information to non-finance managers.
• To continually review work procedures and make changes to improve the information provided to budget holders.
• The post holder must be able to use their own initiative and work with limited supervision.
• The post holder will need to be competent in the use of spreadsheets, databases and word processing software.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll 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].

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• CCAB professional qualification to certificate level, NVQ Level 5, AAT Member, or equivalent. Alternatively, equivalent job-related knowledge and experience

Experience

• Management Accounting: Coordinates the monthly production of income and expenditure budget statements.
• Detailed understanding of software packages used
• Knowledge of financial management and budgetary management.
• Experience of working in acute trust
• Working knowledge of Integra Financial Ledger System.

Skills

• Strong IT skills and a thorough knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite with excellent skills in Excel.
• Good communication, interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to interpret, compare and analyse complex financial information and problems.
• Understanding of current issues in the NHS and the effect these have on the organisation.
• Identify and take responsibility for own development.
• Awareness of the need to put "the customer" first.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working