An exciting opportunity has arisen within South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to recruit a Band 8a Productivity & Costing Finance Manager to join our Finance team. The successful candidate will assist the Senior Finance manager to provide accurate, timely and meaningful financial information and advice to a range of individuals.
Staff are the most important asset of our organisation. The success we continually achieve is built on their passion and commitment. Our strong foundation of engaged and highly motivated staff, combined with a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, enables the trust to drive productivity, deliver high quality care, and support partners across health, social care, and the voluntary sector.
The productivity agenda is high on the Trust’s and NHS as a whole’s agenda. Sitting within the Financial Information Team, this new post will bring together data and people to embed an understanding of productivity, cost and activity data across the Trust, supporting staff to deliver continuous improvement and innovation.
The successful candidate will have strong Excel and costing skills, an understanding of the complexities of NHS finances and how operational practices link to financial and activity data, great communication skills, heaps of enthusiasm and a passion to make a difference.
Responsibilities
1. Utilising and providing highly complex, sensitive data, contained in various IT systems.
2. Managing production of national and system returns (including the National Cost Collection submission and NHS England Provider workforce and agency returns) with a high degree of autonomy.
3. Writing papers for the Finance & Performance Executive & other Executive & board level meetings with regard to the development and improvement of costing & productivity opportunities within the organisation.
4. Providing analysis and narrative to advise directors regarding complex issues (e.g. business implications in the review of services).
You Will
1. Be a qualified accountant with a proven track record of working collaboratively with senior, multi-disciplinary individuals on both an internal and external basis.
2. Have the ability to analyse and interpret highly complex and highly sensitive data and communicate complex financial analysis and interpretation to non-finance colleagues.
3. Have the competency to negotiate and influence staff and overcome barriers to accepting the analysis provided.
4. To gather, produce, interpret and report upon highly complex and sensitive financial and activity information.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Vicky Gunewardena
Job title: Head of Financial Information
Email address: vicky.gunewardena@swft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01926 495321
#J-18808-Ljbffr