Total 4 finance banking insurance job vacancies in wigan wn1 1bh

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a detail orientated individual looking to grow your career in finance? Do you want to make a difference in the education sector? The Rowan Learning Trust are seeking to appoint a dedicated Finance Assistant to join our dynamic central team. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work within a supportive team environment and contribute to the success and stability of our Trust.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Management

• Input orders and invoices into the finance system
• Manage petty cash and process staff expense claims
• Handle credit card transactions and assist with accounts receivable, including raising invoices, chasing outstanding payments and reconciling payments

Financial Reporting and Analysis

• Provide regular and timely cost centre reports
• Assist with month-end reviews of outstanding orders and reconciliations
• Prepare schedules and undertake general finance admin duties

Liaison and Communication

• Work internally with our schools and staff and with external agencies to manage financial queries and transactions
• Liaise with schools regarding trips, Peri Music, events, and charity monies collection and banking

Administration and Compliance

• Handle day-to-day finance admin tasks, including document management and ensuring GDPR compliance
• Assist with the security of all cash held in schools
• Annually prepare bulk requisitions for expected budget costs such as phones and utilities
• Deputise for the Finance Officer if required

About You:

Essential skills and experience

• GCSEs in English and Maths (Grade C or above) or equivalent
• Previous financial background with knowledge of banking procedures, purchase and sales orders, and invoice processing
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong organisational skills and a methodical approach to tasks
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Professional approach with a keen eye for detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Flexibility in day-to-day working patterns
• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality
• Enthusiasm for the work and a sense of humour
• Empathy with children

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience in creating and updating financial spreadsheets
• Working knowledge of IT packages for statistical and financial data presentation
• Experience in a local government financial environment
• Knowledge of education finance software

What the school offers its staff

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a Trust that is dedicated to making a difference for its students and staff
• This is an impactful role - you will play a vital part in supporting our schools and helping to make a difference in education
• Every day is different, with a range of challenges to keep you engaged
• Local government pension scheme with generous employer contribution rates
• Support for further qualifications and your CPD
• A network of staff for sharing best practices
• A growing organisation with plenty of future career development opportunities

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (Murphy) is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs around 3,600 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. #MoreToMurphy
D365/ Finanace Systems Manager - Based at Wigan ( WA3 3JD)The Finance Systems Manager reports to the Head of Business Systems and is responsible for ensuring Murphy’s Finance systems are operationally stable, developed and improved. Working closely with key stakeholders to get the maximum value from the Finance systems investment. The main purpose of the role is to provide task management and scheduling, supplier engagement, identification and delivery of continuous improvements into the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations system for the Murphy business key stakeholders in Finance, Procurement, Commercial and Operations. The role needs to combine application management capability with good customer engagement skills and a working knowledge of finance.

What you will be doing

- Engage with key business stakeholders (process owners) to gain an understanding of relevant business processes and identify current pain points / opportunities for improvement.
- Translate business requirements, working with the key stakeholders and 3rd parties, to technical deliverables to achieve the business goals and objectives.
- Manage and co-ordinate tasks and activities through our partners, e.g. Annata / Panamoure, to deliver project tasks and BAU support activities.
- Develop key metrics and reports in partnership with our 3rd parties to give visibility to IT and key stakeholders in our performance and forecast capacity including delivery roadmaps
- Keep up to date with the D365 Finance & Operations product capabilities, its features and planned changes in the Microsoft Roadmap, looking for opportunities to assist in improving functionality or efficiency of the finance functions
- Provide operational escalation and management to the business in relation to the support of systems within the Financial Systems team’s remit
- Plan and own the release process for D365 to best support the business priorities, balancing stability, risk, benefit and cost
- Manage the D365 Environments ensuring development and support capability is available within the correct cost parameters
- Manage unit testing and ensure the provision of support for full user acceptance testing for system upgrades, fix deployments and enhancements
- Schedules and agrees operational releases for D365 working with key operational stakeholders
- Support the IT project management team by providing resource, knowledge and solution advice to assist in the successful delivery
- Programme Management Team to ensure when we commit resource to projects it is effectively scheduled.
- Undertake work as directed by the Head of Business Systems.
- Manage the wider finance systems (i.e. Syrinx) through the outsourced support teams and vendors ensuring responsive support and
- Implement information security best practices business-wide in order to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company data, systems and infrastructure.
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate documentation is produced and maintained to support the ongoing service and maintenance around D365, ensuring agreed Murphy best practices and standards are followed.

Who we are looking for

- Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365) management support experience is essential
- Demonstrable experience in effectively supporting finance teams and the ability to articulate the service demands and proposed solutions
- Good working knowledge of business finance operations and processes
- Experienced with Financial Systems, including business requirements analysis and the use of an IT Service Management tools
- A personable, approachable character will work well in this environment. Someone who can empathise and provide solutions
- Application Management (Enterprise scale D365 Solution) experience including supplier management
- Construction Industry experience working in Finance Systems
- Management understanding of D365 Finance & Operations, its implementation, configuration and usage.
- Experience in LCS and Dev/Ops for D365
- Supplier and team management, specifically managing off-shore teams
- Experience of supporting Financial Transactional Processing and reporting functions with good process knowledge

A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


We are looking for a full time (37.5 hours per week) Deputy Divisional Manager in the Finance Department.

The post holder will provide day-to-day financial support and advice to colleagues within the Medicine division. This will cover all aspects of budgetary control and performance including investigating complex financial enquiries, providing support & advice as required; and ensuring work is completed in line with financial timescales and legal requirements.

Reporting directly to the Divisional Finance Manager, this is an excellent opportunity for an individual with previous Management Accounts experience. The post holder will work closely with budget managers, clinical professionals and other members of the finance team within the organisation to provide timely and accurate information and help develop and further improve information systems.
The post holder must have access to transport to enable travel between hospital sites. The post is advertised as full time.

To provide financial information and advice to the Deputy Director of Performance and other managers within the relevant Directorates. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be effective.

To have overall responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monitoring of performance and providing advice on corrective action as necessary. To take a lead role in the Division in annual budget setting process.

This vacancy is open to all internal and external candidates.

Choose Well – Choose WWL



Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.



WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.



On-Call

Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

Key results from the job holder
• To provide financial information and advice to the Deputy Director of Performance and other managers within the relevant Directorates. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be effective.
• To have overall responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monitoring of performance and providing advice on corrective action as necessary. To take a lead role in the Division in annual budget setting process.
• To undertake lead responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of recharging mechanisms to improve budgetary control. To take responsibility for the authorisation of specific expenditure within the Directorates (e.g. Works recharges) and the authorisation for the advertisement of vacant posts to ensure that funding is available.
• To actively participate in and contribute to the formulation and implementation of the Divisional Business Plans in accordance with the Trust's strategic aims and objectives. To provide support and advice on financial and non-financial aspects of the Business Plans.
• To provide the Associate Director of Finance with the information necessary to enable corporate financial reporting. This will include explanation of significant variance movements for inclusion in the Trust Board Report.
• To provide monthly financial performance reports that take into account activity, income & expenditure, CIP progress and encompassing risks & forecasts.
• To assist Directorate and Service Managers in identifying and achieving cost improvement and income generation targets, undertaking reviews of all existing practices with the aim of improving efficiency.
• To participate in the development of new costing and budgeting methodologies to provide information for both managerial and commercial purposes.
• To review, for the relevant Directorates, the Trust's costs relative to national norms and other provider units and establishing verification of significant variations.
• To monitor the service provided by the relevant Directorates to other Trusts in accordance with the Service level Agreements. To discuss and renegotiate these SLAs as necessary.
• To take financial responsibility in the competitive tendering process to ensure that best value is achieved. To prepare financial option appraisal reports for presentation to the Trust board incorporating recommendations.
• To assist the Associate Director of Finance in the management and reconciliation of the Trusts reserves.
• To participate in the provision of Financial Awareness Training to non-finance staff within the Trust and to organisations utilising the Trusts on-site training facilities.
• To provide input as required to the Trust's statutory financial reports.
• To ensure that the Trust's standing financial instructions and codes of procedures are adhered to at all times.
• To open and acknowledge the receipt of tenders in accordance with the Trust Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions.
• To assist generally in the financial management of the Trust.
• Deputise for other senior colleagues as required.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of accounting systems.
• Make recommendations to reduce costs and enhance value.
• Undertake other duties as agreed with the Associate Director of Finance.


This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jul 2024

Key results from the job holder To provide financial information and advice to the Deputy Director of Performance and other managers within the relevant Directorates. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be effective. To have overall responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monitoring of performance and providing advice on corrective action as necessary. To take a lead role in the Division in annual budget setting process. To undertake lead responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of recharging mechanisms to improve budgetary control. To take responsibility for the authorisation of specific expenditure within the Directorates (e.g. Works recharges) and the authorisation for the advertisement of vacant posts to ensure that funding is available. To actively participate in and contribute to the formulation and implementation of the Divisional Business Plans in accordance with the Trust's strategic aims and objectives. To provide support and advice on financial and non-financial aspects of the Business Plans. To provide the Associate Director of Finance with the information necessary to enable corporate financial reporting. This will include explanation of significant variance movements for inclusion in the Trust Board Report. To provide monthly financial performance reports that take into account activity, income & expenditure, CIP progress and encompassing risks & forecasts. To assist Directorate and Service Managers in identifying and achieving cost improvement and income generation targets, undertaking reviews of all existing practices with the aim of improving efficiency. To participate in the development of new costing and budgeting methodologies to provide information for both managerial and commercial purposes. To review, for the relevant Directorates, the Trust's costs relative to national norms and other provider units and establishing verification of significant variations. To monitor the service provided by the relevant Directorates to other Trusts in accordance with the Service level Agreements. To discuss and renegotiate these SLAs as necessary. To take financial responsibility in the competitive tendering process to ensure that best value is achieved. To prepare financial option appraisal reports for presentation to the Trust board incorporating recommendations. To assist the Associate Director of Finance in the management and reconciliation of the Trusts reserves. To participate in the provision of Financial Awareness Training to non-finance staff within the Trust and to organisations utilising the Trusts on-site training facilities. To provide input as required to the Trust's statutory financial reports. To ensure that the Trust's standing financial instructions and codes of procedures are adhered to at all times. To open and acknowledge the receipt of tenders in accordance with the Trust Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions. To assist generally in the financial management of the Trust. Deputise for other senior colleagues as required. Contribute to the effectiveness of accounting systems. Make recommendations to reduce costs and enhance value. Undertake other duties as agreed with the Associate Director of Finance.