Financial Management Trainee – Corporate

The role has been designed specifically with the objective of providing the post holder with the relevant practical experience and support to progress to Senior Management Accounts Officer level and support them with their academic studies. 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.

Trainee Financial Management Accountant

The FPBU’s Corporate Team is looking to recruit to 2 new B4-6 Trainee Financial Management Accountant posts to work across all Corporate functions. Working alongside the Deputy Corporate Accountants you will have the opportunity to gain experience working across all Corporate functions including, HR, Finance, Medical Director, Informatics, and IM&T within a group organization that covers many hospitals and sites.

Our team is innovative and continually challenges itself to provide services that 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 interpersonal 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.

For more information and an informal chat please contact Ray Chikwale or Tehmena Ishtiaq, [email protected] or Tehmena@[email protected].

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 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 programs. 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 shape the future of our organization 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.

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