Finance Assistant

at  Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Management Accounts team at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Finance Assistant.
The successful candidate must possess excellent communication and organisational skills and experience of working in a busy finance office would be beneficial. You must be capable of working to tight deadlines whilst ensuring consistency and accuracy, be able to prioritise workloads and work with little supervision.
We would need the postholder to be ambitious and willing to show initiative in their work area with excel skills being essential
While the Trust operates an agile working policy, the postholder will be required to be office based for the initial period of their employment
This is a hybrid working arrangements and will require attendance on site, for a minimum of 2 days per week (however, attendance full time on site for the probationary period to allow training and team integration).

Maintaining establishment control processes
Assisting with month end and year end duties
Input and verify data into the general ledger
Maintain operational reporting logs and issue statements within specified timeframes
Administration of base budget spreadsheets to support Assistant Management Accountants
Ad hoc analysis and administrative support to the team
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children’s health.
The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.
At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.
To assist the Finance Business Partner in the annual budget setting process.
To assist the Management Accounts team in carrying out month end duties to ensure budgetary control measures are in place.
To input and verify data to assist with the smooth running of the Management Accounts Department.
To deal with ad-hoc queries generated by the Management Accounts Team that assist in meeting service needs.
To provide a reliable and efficient, administrative and analytical support service for the Management Accounts department.
To ensure discretion is used at all times as some issues may be of a confidential natur