The Trust is entering an exciting phase and has a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our Capital Finance team as a Deputy Finance Business Partner. Working closely with a wide range of people including Operational and Senior Managers, to support the growing Capital Programme.
This is a once in a lifetime to play a part in building the new multi million pound hospital in Crewe, Cheshire. If you are looking for an opportunity to be part of a large capital programme this could be the perfect role for you - the programme offers an excellent development opportunity within a friendly and supportive team.
Days and hours of work for this post are flexible and we would welcome discussion around this. Hybrid working is supported but some attendance to site will be mandatory.
This post offers experience across both Financial Accounts and Management Accounts and so would be ideal for a rounded financial professional.
The team supports a culture of continual learning as part of the finance team ambition to become a finance skills development (FSD) accredited to level 3.
The Deputy Finance Business Partner - Capital is responsible for co-ordinating with Estates, IT and operational teams to produce the rolling capital programme and report against the monthly performance escalating exceptions to the sub-committees of the Trust Board. It will involve the liaison with the Integrated Care Board and regulators to ensure the Trust remains within it’s capital resource limits and meets its obligations with Nationally Funded schemes.
The role will be responsible for ensuring that the application of the accounting principles surrounding capital are complied with.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).
The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff.
An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.
We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
The Deputy Finance Business Partner - Capital is responsible for co-ordinating with Estates, IT and operational teams to produce the rolling capital programme and report against the monthly performance escalating exceptions to the sub-committees of the Trust Board. It will involve the liaison with the Integrated Care Board and regulators to ensure the Trust remains within it’s capital resource limits and meets its obligations with Nationally Funded schemes.
The role will be responsible for ensuring that the application of the accounting principles surrounding capital are complied with.
SERVICE DELIVERY
1. Responsible for the preparation of the Trust’s monthly financial report to the Trust’s regulator, NHSE/I. This often entails sense checking complex financial information, such as consistency checking of capital forecasts to the year to date position.
2. Produce the monthly capital report, which analyses committed expenditure by scheme and present the position to the Capital Infrastructure Group (CIG), with escalation of exceptions to the Estates, Safe & Sustainable Executive Group (ESSEG), a sub-committee of the Trust Board.
3. Maintain proper capital accounting records to recognised standards in order to produce accurate capital scheme reporting on a monthly basis and achieve annual statutory accounts requirements.
4. Liaise with the Estates, IT and Operational team in producing the capital elements of the Trust’s 3 year operating plan, ensuring the capital plans are realistic and tie into the Trust-wide vision and strategy.
5. Lead on the process for the valuation of the Estate, provide reports and information in respect of capital and fixed assets in a timely manner to enable the production of the annual statutory accounts.
6. Monitor the progress of capital schemes in financial terms including monthly capital commitments and accruals, liaising with project directors as necessary and providing year end forecasts to ensure achievement of the capital programme in financial terms
7. Review all capital expenditure to ensure the correct coding and the correct treatment of any related VAT.
8. Ensure that in year capital expenditure is profiled accurately in support of effective cash management
9. Ensure all of the Trust’s assets are correctly recorded on the Fixed Asset Register in a timely manner including additions, impairments, accelerated depreciation, revaluations and disposals
10. Lead the asset verification process, ensuring that the physical existence of the Trust’s capital assets is verified on a rolling 12 month basis
11. Lead the process of reconciling the Trust’s revaluation reserve to a high standard, ensuring it is correctly accounted for following each revaluation exercise and there are no anomalies.
12. Ensure that all Right of Use assets are appropriately accounted for and recorded on the Trust’s asset register, working closely with the Lead Accountant Financial Accounts to deliver compliance with IFRS 16.
13. Ensure that the revenue consequences of approved capital and major revenue investments are recorded and communicated to other staff in the section as part of the annual budget setting exercise.
14. Provide forecasts of capital charges for budget setting and calculate the annual Public Dividend Capital and interest on capital loans and the managed equipment service finance lease
This advert closes on Monday 27 Jan 2025