Temporary Management Accountant | Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Temporary Management Accountant

DepartmentFinancial Management

Band 4  £14.52 - £15.93 Per hour

Hours 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working

To apply, you will be an enthusiastic individual with accounting experience, adept at Excel, and have a team player attitude.    

As post holder, you will support the financial management team by contributing a key role in month end, forecasting, business cases and budget setting to ensure the team report accurately and to deadline.  You will form relationships with divisional, service, corporate and clinical managers to support them in planning their resource needs whilst staying within budgets.  

As the successful candidate you will have good inter-personal skills and be able to communicate with staff across all levels of the organisation.

For further information, please contact Sarah Green via email Sarah.green@MKUH.NHS.UK 

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Interview 30th October 2026

To provide direct financial support to the Finance Business Partner, Division and CSU ensuring the Division is fully compliant with best financial practice in the areas of: 

Financial budget reporting 

Business case development 

Activity and capacity planning 

Maximisation of income (particularly with regard to National Tariff) 

Budgeting 

Forecasting of expenditure and activity income 

Service line reporting 

 

Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a “Good” rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.

As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.

We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre.  We have just opened the Oak Wards - a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards.

Further investment is underway, including the recently approved Women and Children’s Centre, set to open by 2030.

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Managing Services:

•    Assist in the production of monthly financial reporting packs which set out clearly performance in all aspects of finance, activity and contractual targets delivery, ensuring a clear story of outcomes and causal factors is provided.

•    Undertake management accounting tasks to deliver month end reporting (i.e. budget journals, accruals etc.).

Improving Services:

•    Assist in the Production monthly financial reporting packs which set out clearly performance in all aspects of finance, activity and contractual targets delivery, ensuring a clear story of outcomes and causal factors is provided.

•    Assist the Finance Business Partner in developing business cases as necessary in line with prescribed Trust format and process. Ensure that content of cases is robust and reflect full consideration of options to deliver best value.

Working with others:

•    Be able to work effectively under the direction of the Finance Business Partner or Associate Finance Business Partner as well as independently

•    Encourages, supports and facilitates divisional and CSU staff to contribute and innovate for the improvement of patient care and the efficiency, safety, quality and effectiveness of services; finding ways to empower staff to implement their ideas for improvement.

Demonstrating personal qualities:

•    The post holder will be expected to operate with discretion and without direct supervision to deliver the requirements of both the finance function and the Division/CSU. This will necessitate skill in balancing priorities

•    Acts as a role model to demonstrate the Trust’s values and behaviours at all times.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details.

 

This advert closes on Monday 26 Oct 2026