Financial Management Assistant

Job summary

The role has been designed specifically with the objective of providing the post holder with the relevant practical experience and support in Financial Management. The post-holder will work within a team, assisting Accountants and Accounts Officers in the provision of high quality and accurate financial information to internal and external stakeholders. This objective will be achieved through a combination of financial systems work, e.g., General Ledger and ESR (Electronic Staff Record), project work and the utilisation of Microsoft Office products such as Excel and Word. The post-holder will also undertake specific directed tasks such as data entry as well as the preparation of spreadsheets and other financial information. The post-holder will be required to communicate, both verbally and in writing, with operational staff, budget-holders and other staff within the Finance Department.

Main duties of the job

The FPBU's Corporate Team is looking to recruit a B4 Financial Management Assistant work across the Informatics Division. Working with the Deputy Corporate Accountants and Accounts Officers you will have the opportunity to gain experience across Informatics, HIVE and IM&T Group which covers many hospitals and sites.

Our team is innovative and continually challenges itself to provide services which support Corporate Directors to assist them manage their departments and to support them in providing high quality patient care. Innovations such as Day 1 monthly reporting are routine, and the successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment.

Excellent inter-personal and communication skills are essential with the ability to communicate financial issues effectively with both non-finance and finance staff. Strong analytical skills are also critical.

Please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification for further information.

For more information and an informal chat please contact Tehmena Ishtiaq on Tehmena@ishtiaq@mft.nhs.uk or Ismail Diwan on Ismail.Diwan@mft.nhs.uk .

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 28,000 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.