Management Accounting Assistant | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Liverpool, L9 7AL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Nov 2026
Closing date:	2 Dec 2026

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Summary

The post holder will provide support to the Divisional Accounting Assistant in the delivery of financial and statutory obligations of the Trusts Financial Management function.

Responsibility for producing financial information and providing support to a group of clinical and departmental budget holders.

To be a key member of the Trust’s Finance Department and contribute to the delivery of its overall objectives.

They will be a member of the divisional team, providing financial and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues. They

will support aspects of service area financial and business performance and financial management processes to ensure efficiency and

effectiveness.

Working with the Divisional Accounting Assistant, the post holder will develop and produce information to support accurate and timely monthly performance reports for presentation at service meetings and to feed into the Trusts position for internal and external corporate reporting. There will be a requirement to discuss this review with budget holders.

To achieve this, the post holder will be expected to work with the clinicians and budget holders within the service area to model financial

information to enable informed decision making on business processes and plans, which improve and enhance the overall productivity of the

Trust.

The post holder will provide detailed information to support the development of robust financial forecasts. They will support the annual planning process and associated work streams.

They will deputise for the Divisional Accounting Assistant as and when necessary.

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

To oversee and maintain spreadsheets and records to assist the Directorate Accountants in ensuring that income and expenditure is

recorded accurately. To discuss routine queries with internal managers and external bodies where necessary. Financial information and reports

are produced in a timely and accurate manner. Queries are dealt with in a timely and professional manner.

- To take a lead role in analysing income and expenditure, identifying variances, investigating where necessary and reporting to the

Directorate Accountants. High quality information is provided to Directorate Accountants for review.

- To reconcile the control accounts on a monthly basis and maintain appropriate documentation on file. All control accounts are fully

reconciled and signed off in line with the agreed timetable for completion.

- To ensure that budget reconciliation’s are completed on a monthly basis, and that appropriate documentation and analyses are kept on file.

All Budget Reconciliation’s are fully reconciled and signed off in line with the agreed timetable for completion.

- To develop a detailed understanding of the General Ledger, to be able to use the system to ensure that data is input and information

accessed where necessary. Confident working knowledge of Oracle General Ledger.

- To develop a detailed understanding of the recharge system, assist the Directorate Accountants in setting recharge budgets and oversee the

monthly input of recharge information between Directorates. To be able to respond to queries from the budget holders regarding there recharges

and resolve queries from other Trusts. To complete all necessary work in respect of recharge systems in line with the agreed timetable, to

respond to all queries effectively.

- To raise ad hoc requests for invoices to be raised and to ensure the income is recorded Invoices are raised within the agreed timetable

- To assist in the Annual budget setting process for Directorates, develop an awareness of the Business Planning process and support the

Directorate Accountants in producing financial information relating to it. Recognition from Directorate Accountants of support provided.

- To produce the budget information in Excel format from the General Ledger system on a monthly basis, ensuring that all data is reconciled

and updated prior to being sent to the Directorates. Financial information is produced to a high level of quality in terms of presentation, within

agreed timescales.

- Assist in the provision of reference cost and financial flows information. Develop sufficient knowledge and provide support when required.

- Contribute to the smooth and efficient functioning of the finance function by performing ad hoc duties as and when required especially to

ensure the fulfilment of any statutory financial information requirements To be responsive and flexible when required

- Provide financial information to, or answer queries from the Directorates when requested in a timely manner and when requested, attend

meetings in the absence of the Divisional Accounting Assistant. Directorates are satisfied with responses received.

- Assist the Directorate Accountant where necessary in the provision of information and costs relating to specialist contracts. Develop

sufficient knowledge and provide support when required.

- Assist the Directorate Accountants in calculating and monitoring costs of projects. Develop sufficient knowledge and provide support when

required

- Support the training process when required, both in terms of finance and non-finance staff. Favourable feedback where training is undertaken.

This advert closes on Monday 16 Nov 2026

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