Senior Management Accounts Assistant

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Chester; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 4 Senior Management Accounts Assistant to join the Finance team in Chester. This NHS role offers an opportunity to develop your career within a supportive, multi-site environment and to contribute to timely management information across services.

You will assist with budgets, provide monthly and ad hoc financial data to clinical and non-clinical services, and liaise with budget holders to investigate variances, ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience in a financial environment.
• Knowledge of financial systems and NHS finance regime.
• Advanced Excel and Access skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation and compilation of budgets and provide monthly and ad hoc financial information for Care Groups or Clinical Support services.
• Communicate with budget holders to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and budget variances, providing trend analyses and reconciliations.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Budgeting

Education

5 GCSEs incl Maths & English

Tools

General Ledger software

MS Access

Job description

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Management Accounts Assistant

The closing date is 18 November 2026

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity to join the Finance team as a Band 4 Senior Management Accounts Assistant.

This role provides an excellent platform for an ambitious professional looking to develop their finance career within a strong team. The team structure provides a clear route of progression in a rewarding and challenging environment. We are also proud to hold a Level 3 Towards Excellence Accreditation from OneNHS Finance/Skills Development Network.

The Senior Management Accounts Assistant will play a key role in the Management Accounting Team and provide support in providing timely, relevant and accurate financial information to clinical and non-clinical services.

Main duties of the job

To assist the Business & Value Partner in the preparation and compilation of detailed budgets, provide monthly and ad hoc financial management information for budget queries in a tactful, timely and efficient manner for both information and planning purposes for the Care Group or Clinical Support service.

To communicate with budget holders in all aspects of budget management, to analyse, investigate and resolve financial queries and budget variances. To provide managers with the relevant information, including sensitive information such as staff pay costs through supplying trend analyses and reconciliations to enable budget holders to take corrective action on under/overspent budgets.

About us

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you'll find something to suit you at CWP.

Job responsibilities

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: [e-mail] or by calling 01244 393100.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the essential criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer YES to the question: Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £15 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above (including Maths & English).
• Proven commitment to Continuing development.

Knowledge & Expertise

• Knowledge of financial systems.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Intermediate Access with advanced keyboard skills where speed and accuracy of data entry are necessary.
• Awareness of the NHS Finance Regime and the working of NHS bodies
• An understanding of NHS accounting policies and procedures.

Experience

• Previous experience of working within a financial environment.
• Experience of using General Ledger and periphery electronic modules.
• Familiar with working in a multidisciplinary environment/team.

Trust Values

• Demonstrate alignment with Trust Values (6 C's: Commitment, Communication, Care, Courage, Compassion, Competency)

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.

Employer name

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Redesmere, Countess of Chester Health Park

Redesmere, Countess of Chester Health Park