Management Accountant (Sponsorship Available) at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job Summary

An opportunity has arisen for the role of Management Accountant at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, playing a key role in managing and reporting the financial position of the organisation.

The Trust is looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic individual who is ready to develop their career in an acute healthcare provider with a strong track record of delivering five-star quality care for its patients.

The post holder will provide expert financial advice to operational colleagues and play a key role in providing an effective financial management and reporting service.

They will support and work closely with the Senior Financial Management team to generate, analyse and report financial information to stakeholders internal and external to the Trust.

The successful candidate will hold a CCAB or CIMA qualification, with financial management experience in a large organisation and knowledge of the NHS finance regime.

They will have excellent I.T. and communication skills and experience of managing and developing staff. They will have demonstrated the ability to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.

Please note: The Job Description and Person Specification are subject to AfC review.

Job Details

• Employer: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

• Job Title: Management Accountant

• Location: United Kingdom

• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year

• Job Type: Full-time

• Closing Date: 28 October 2026

Main Duties of the Job

The Management Accountant’s main duties will be to:

• Provide expert financial advice and oversight of financial management for their areas of responsibility.

• Lead aspects of the month-end reporting process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting of the monthly financial position both internally and externally to the organisation.

• Monitor financial performance against agreed budgets, analysing and reporting on variances and assisting in formulating corrective actions.

• Coordinate the budget-setting and forecasting processes for their areas of responsibility.

• Ensure the provision of high-quality financial reporting to budget holders and other non-finance managers in order to support delivery of the Trust’s strategic, corporate and financial objectives, including delivery of Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) efficiencies.

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships to enable effective working. The post holder will be expected to liaise with both internal departments and external bodies.

• Manage and develop staff.

Job Responsibilities

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• CCAB/CIMA Qualified or equivalent experience.

• Demonstrable evidence of continuous personal and professional development.

Knowledge

Essential

• Expert theoretical knowledge of accounting, NHS accounting and Public Sector accounting policy.

• Significant Financial Management experience.

• Knowledge and experience of strategic and business planning and investment appraisal process.

• Experience within a finance function of a large organisation.

• Knowledge and experience of performance management techniques.

• Specialist knowledge of capital, expenditure and revenue budgets.

• Experience of budget setting to prepare plans for financial and human resources.

Desirable

• Experience of managing and developing finance staff.

• Experience of formulating and developing long-term strategic plans, often involving uncertainty that may impact on the whole organisation.

• NHS Finance experience.

• Experience of contract monitoring and reporting.

• Experience of the Oracle General Ledger System.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse, investigate and interpret financial information and queries.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to report and present financial information to both finance and non-finance individuals (internal and external).

• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.

• Well organised, able to prioritise own workload to deliver tight deadlines.

• To be able to carry out business ensuring all accounting treatments are adhering to Generally Agreed Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Accounting Standards (IAS).

• High level of ability in designing, developing, managing and maintaining complex computerised financial systems, spreadsheets and databases.

• Proven high level of communication skills using a range of methods, e.g. written, verbal presentation to Executive Management Team as well as budget holders of all levels.

• The ability to manage conflicting priorities.

• The ability to formulate arguments and express them clearly to lay people and to persuade clinicians and senior management over a course of action.

• The ability to deal with highly complex facts or situations, including those relating to business case development.

• The ability to make judgements where there is no precedent and where other leading opinions conflict.

• Ability to influence, command respect and establish credibility quickly.

• Ability to work effectively with directors.

• To display good negotiation skills.

• Ability to plan and organise a broad range of highly complex plans and adjust these through time.

• ECDL or equivalent is essential – i.e. experienced in the use of financial systems/spreadsheets/databases/word processing.

• Advanced keyboard skills essential.

Other Essential Requirements

• Team player.

• The ability to get on with others and build good relationships with a wide variety of people both internal and external to the organisation.

• Evidence of continued professional and personal development and learning through the PDR process.

• Willingness to travel.

• Self-motivated and able to work to tight deadlines.

• Concentration required for effectively multi-tasking, analysing data, writing detailed reports, etc.

• The post holder has to be able to work successfully under pressure of time and resources.

About Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9,000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

The Trust strongly believes that the communities it serves should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Services Provided by the Trust

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all Trust sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire.

The inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients.

The Trust also provides urgent care at its Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

The Trust provides the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Trust Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018.

• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal).

• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Recruitment Dates and Application Information

The job description also provides the following recruitment dates:

• Advertising Date: 9 September 2026

• Closing Date: 16 September 2026

• Shortlisting Date: 18 September 2026

• Proposed Interview Date: 25 September 2026

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.

Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

How to Apply

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