Management Accounts Assistant

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
The finance team of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group has an opportunity for a motivated individual with relevant experience to join the team as the Management Accounts Assistant for the Group Corporate Services Team.

The post holder will assist in the provision of a comprehensive, effective and efficient Financial Management Service to various department and the managers within them.

**Main duties of the job**:
The role will support the organisational aims and objectives by being flexible and responsive, and by ensuring that high quality support is delivered to the Team. This involves working closely with colleagues both in finance and the organisation as a whole.

You will also support the finance department in the process of meeting its objectives and assist in the preparation of budgetary and reporting systems and implementing procedures that enable an effective financial management service to be provided to various departments and the managers within the Divisions.

You will be proactive and highly motivated with strong IT skills and competent in the use of Microsoft Office.

You will also require a good understanding of the accounting function and should be able to plan your workload in order to meet both strict and conflicting deadlines.

You will be educated to GCSE level and ideally studying for an AAT qualification with experience of working within a finance department.

This is an exciting opportunity to join and contribute to a forward thinking, quality focused organisation and will provide excellent experience to someone who is looking to start their career in finance.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Education / Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- GCSE - Maths & English

**Desirable criteria**:

- A Level
- AAT Studying

**Knowledge & Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Understanding relationship and role of finance to the organisation
- Good time management and allocation of resources to meet deadlines
- Able to input data to financial systems with accuracy and speed

**Desirable criteria**:

- Finance Department
- Management Accounts
- Finance systems

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to plan and prioritise workload
- Able to work within a team
- Good level of analytical skills
- Good level of communication skills

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