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An opportunity has arisen for a Financial Management Officer to join the Financial Management function in Clinical and Scientific Services (CSS). Based out of Trafford General Hospital, 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.

• Support the Finance Business Partner and Deputy Finance Business Partner in maintaining the Trust Directorate budgets.
• Plan own work to ensure deadlines are met.
• 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.
• Continually review work procedures and make changes to improve the information provided to budget holders.
• Use own initiative and work with limited supervision.
• Understand accounting policies and procedures used and be able to discuss with colleagues and budget holders.
• The post will demand a significant amount of time to be spent at VDU using keyboard skills; speed and accuracy is required to enable deadlines to be met whilst maintaining the quality of the information provided. The ability to concentrate on complex information/problems is imperative.
• Competent in the use of spreadsheets, databases and word processing software.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & 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 brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve 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 new Green Plan which will set 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.

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.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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 [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!