Finance Administrator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Finance Team at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a Finance Administrator. This important role sits at the heart of our Enabling Services, providing high-quality, service-focused administrative support that helps ensure the smooth and effective running of our Finance operations. Working closely with the Business Co-ordinator and colleagues across Financial Management, Financial Accounting, and Transactional Services, you will play a key part in coordinating essential processes, maintaining accurate information, and enabling timely reporting.

As a trusted first point of contact for routine enquiries into the Finance Department, you will bring excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and a strong customer-focused approach. You will support the team by maintaining key records, producing routine data and reports from systems such as ESR, Roster and Integra, and ensuring efficient organisation of meetings, documents, and administrative workflows. This role is perfect for someone who is proactive, well-organised, and enjoys working as part of a friendly and supportive team within a busy and dynamic environment.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high-quality administrative support across the Finance Department, including diary management, meeting organisation, note-taking, document handling, and general office coordination.
• Act as the first point of contact for routine enquiries, delivering excellent customer service to internal staff and external stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate records and undertake routine data entry, including sickness/leave records, invoice logs, trackers, and other departmental spreadsheets.
• Retrieve, input, and report information from key systems such as ESR, Roster, Integra, and Microsoft Office, supporting routine reporting and data collection requirements.
• Support team operations through effective communication, maintaining filing structures, assisting colleagues, providing training on systems where required, and working autonomously to manage workload in line with Trust procedures.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.