Financial Accountant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Financial Accountant to join the Financial Services Team at Milton Keynes University Hospital. The role involves producing accurate and timely financial reports, managing financial cycles, and compiling forecasts. Key responsibilities include preparing annual accounts for the Trust, its subsidiary, and charity, and managing the Trust's provisions. This hybrid role requires a driven individual with strong accounting knowledge and management experience.
Key responsibilities
- Lead on planning and production of working papers for statutory in-year and annual accounts, adhering to IFRS and NHS guidelines.
- Populate monthly NHSI PFR returns according to submission deadlines.
- Oversee and review the NHS agreement of balances exercise for in-year and annual accounts.
- Provide detailed working papers for audits and resolve auditor queries.
- Lead on coordinating the month-end process for financial accounting, ensuring timely task completion.
- Manage the Trust's provisions in accordance with IAS 37, including annual valuation of Pension and Injury Benefit provisions.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject (e.g. accountancy or financial discipline) or equivalent knowledge and experience.
- Professional CCAB Accountant qualification finalist/part qualified
- Up-to-date knowledge and experience of financial reporting Standards.
- Experience of producing annual accounts in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS] and statutory requirements.
- Able to ensure target dates are adhered to through organisation of own workload.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, and be able to communicate both verbally and in writing complex, technical, sensitive or contentious financial information, to Finance Managers and Committees.
- In depth knowledge of financial and accounting procedures.
- Significant experience of capital accounting using a capital asset system including provision of working papers for statutory accounts.
- Through significant experience, demonstrate excellent Financial Analysis and Interpretation skills including an ability interpret complex data and provide summarized information to a range of users.
- Expert analytical and reasoning skills supported by attention to detail and the ability manage and manipulate vast quantities of data
- Demonstrable experience of liaising with Internal and External Auditors.
- Experience of managing, motivating and developing staff
- Proven ability to prioritise and delegate in a demanding environment and to tight deadlines
- Strong analytical, financial reporting, and presentation skills with the ability to present complex issues clearly and concisely
- The desire to accept ownership and accountability, whilst getting things done well and meeting challenging goals
- The ability to think ahead and decide on courses of action, ensuring that the resources required to implement the action will be available, and scheduling work required to achieve an end result
- Skills for managing people ensuring they perform to a high standard and meet team objectives and deadlines.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and analyse areas of work to identify those which would benefit from continuous improvement.
- Able to interpret guidelines and implement appropriate changes to working practices.
- Strong IT skills particularly spreadsheets
- Prepared to challenge and be challenged.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service depending on monthly, quarterly and annual cycles.
- The ability to originate, introduce and be open to, new practices, concepts, ideas and change and to continuously improve.
- Be able to manage time effectively, prioritise and deliver to agreed deadlines
- Be prepared to constructively question and challenge the performance of team members, and other stakeholders
- Frequent requirement for concentration when inputting data, checking and reconciling information, making calculations and when answering queries from staff, audit and managers
- Often required to switch tasks at short notice.
- Frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when analysing complex data and preparing reports
- Leads by example and instils a team approach to workload.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- The ability to work co-operatively and flexibly with others, both within and outside the organisation, demonstrating an understanding of effective team working and partnerships
- Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- Ability to represent Finance at internal meetings
- Ability to explain complex financial terminology to both finance and non-finance colleagues
- Able to perform the duties of the post with reasonable aids and adaptations
- Proactive, flexible, enthusiastic, confident and highly motivated individual who demonstrates a commitment to Trust objectives and the NHS as a whole
Desirable criteria
- Some relevant experience of working in an NHS organization.
- Production of NHS accounts.
- Advanced IT literacy with experience of using Oracle accounting system including Business Intelligence reporting.
- Experience of NHS VAT rules
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Financial Accountant
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Financial Accountant
Department: Finance
Band 7 £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum pro rata
Hours: 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Financial Accountant role within the Financial Services Team at MKUH. This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual, who is an excellent team player, to support the Financial Services function.
The Financial Services Team includes capital, charity, subsidiary, accounts payable/receivable, treasury, governance and statutory returns.
The position reports to the Deputy Financial Controller, and the role covers the production of accurate and timely financial reports and information throughout the year, which enable the requirements of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial cycles to be met. The compilation and completion of relevant forecasts, and the maintenance, monitoring and development of the forecasts throughout the year liaising with colleagues over reporting. This will ultimately culminate in the production of the Trusts annual accounts, the Trust subsidiary (ADMK Ltd) accounts and the Trust charity accounts.
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