Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bury Care Organisation Town Bury Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/07/2025 23:59
Business Accountant
Band 8b
Job overview
As a result of career progression of the existing postholder, we have an opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to join the Northern Care Alliance finance team. 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 progress their career in finance.
The role is the Business Accountant to support a clinical division. This post is an integral part of the management team of a high profile and complex division. The post holder will support the organisation’s aims and objectives by ensuring a high quality finance service is delivered to the division to allow for continuous improvement. The successful candidate will be flexible and responsive to change.
Main duties of the job
The role involves working closely with colleagues, both in finance and the organisation as a whole. The post holder will support the finance department in the process of meeting its objectives. This includes the preparation of budgetary and reporting systems, and implementing procedures that enable effective financial management and efficient use of resources.
This is a pivotal role to contribute to helping the organisation to ensure it maintains its high quality of clinical services whilst identifying ways in which to safely reduce costs.
You will be proactive and highly motivated with strong IT skills, competent in the use of Microsoft Office and computerised ledger systems.
You will 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 a CCAB qualified accountant with post qualification management experience.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
In line with the Trust's Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, marital status, social background or trade union membership.
Person specification
Qualifications
* CCAB
* Evidence of CPD
Experience
* Including providing financial support and advise to managers of complex services / in a complex organisation, contribution to productivity and efficiency initiatives, use of SLR / PLICS data to drive change.
* NHS experience
Skills
* Evidence of excellent written communication skills
* Evidence of ability to work as a team member and to lead a team
* Ability to build effective working relationships
* Evidence of ability to negotiate with a variety of staff members to reach an agreed goal
* Evidence of being motivated and proactive
* Evidence of flexible working practices to meet service needs
* Evidence of ability to organise work independently and adapt to changing priorities using own initiative
* Evidence of ability to problem solve and produce solutions
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.
For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.
The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here .
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