QAD 1805/1306 Role: Finance Business Partner Contract Length: Anticipated 3 months initially Hours: 37.5 hours per week Location: On-Site, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham Kent ME7 5NY Pay Rate: £35.86 per hour PAYE NHS experience desirable Enhanced DBS required for this role TBC OH Assessment required for this role Summary: The purpose of the Finance Business Partner is to ensure the provision of high-quality information and advice to Divisions and Directorates within the organisation, liaising with external organisations as appropriate. The post holder will look outwards to service providers and advise on budgetary control, efficiency and commercial considerations. The post holder will proactively ensure the appropriate use of resources and the provision of the optimum level of financial information and advice to managers at all levels. Working closely with other senior members of the finance team they will:
* Influence budgetary accountability by means of formal periodic reviews of all financial performance
* Lead and develop their team in delivering first class effective financial advice
* Ensure the financial management function delivers timely accurate information to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders promoting and creating a customer focussed ethos for the function.
* Provide and execute first line support in the development and prosecution of business cases
* Support the identification of cost efficiency and productivity opportunities within their respective Divisions using benchmarking information and being expert in using model hospital data.
* Role modelling efficiency and productivity within the Trust – propagating a culture of investing resource wisely and, first and foremost, preserving resource for high-quality patient care
* Be the communication conduit through which SLR information is developed and ultimately used within operational Divisions, proposing nuanced and prioritised opportunities for improvements in efficiency and productivity.
* Work as a team of Business Partners to upskill Divisional and fellow corporate colleagues in budgetary management and financial understanding
Qualifications;
* CCAB fully qualified
* Master’s Degree or equivalent experience
* Evidence of CPD
* Current member of relevant professional bodies
Knowledge;
* Expert knowledge of accounting policies and regulations
* Knowledge and understanding of strategic NHS issues and priorities
* Detailed knowledge of NHS and private sector financial management techniques and regulations, including investment appraisal, business case preparation and NHS costing methodologies
Experience;
* Expert understanding of the NHS financial regime
* Three years PQE
* Experience of financial management in a complex organisation
* Experience of developing effective internal control environments
* Experience of development of efficiency improvement programmes
Skills;
* Excellent communication skills
* Able to communicate with internal and external senior stakeholders
* Ability to present complex, sensitive and contentious information in a way that is understandable to the reader
* Ability to motivate staff to deliver change
* Capacity to analyse complex information from a variety of sources, both financial and non-financial
* Demonstrate ‘lean’ thinking on the delivery of financial services
* Clear ‘business focus’
* Able to interpret and provide sound judgement on highly complex issues
* Able to manage a multiplicity of targets and objectives
* Provide judgements regarding resource allocation where no precedent exists and where potential for disagreement at a senior level exists
* Required to plan and organise a broad range of complex and technical
Other Attributes;
* Assertive
* Political awareness
* Positive, ‘can do’ attitude
* Ability to cope with difficult people and situations managing conflict appropriately
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