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**:
**Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance.**
**As a care organisation we have our own Financial Management Team and we have a vacancy for a Management Accounts Assistant.**

The Finance Directorate actively promotes training and development within the team, across the Trust and externally.

We are an active member of the FSD Network, Future Focused Finance, and Towards Excellence scheme. As a Financial Management team we also have embedded a culture of strong teamwork and promoting change to continually work more efficiently.

**Main duties of the job**:
The role will report to a Budget Manager and will working closely with other areas of the team within the Care Organisation as well as across the Northern Care Alliance wider Finance Directorate. You will provide a high quality, accurate and timely financial management advice, monitoring and reporting service to a range of non-financial colleagues including month end reporting and budget queries.

Supporting the Budget Manager you will assist the team in providing an effective monitoring and reporting service and be an integral part of the finance team, being a point of contact for budget holders and managers.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

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

- 5 GCSEs - including Maths & English

**Desirable criteria**:

- A Level
- NVQ3 / AAT Studying
- ECDL

**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 experience
- Management Accounts experience
- Finance systems experience

**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
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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