Recruiter: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Job Summary
The postholder will be a qualified accountant playing a crucial role in providing comprehensive and high-quality financial and business support to the Division. You will be able to provide expert financial advice and training to a range of managers and clinicians within the Division, including the ability to present complex financial information to non-finance staff ensuring understanding and engagement. Working closely with the leadership teams across the division to ensure the consistent achievement of financial performance and outcome targets that supports the delivery of high-quality patient care.
This is a challenging role and a great opportunity for someone to be a part of a high-performing, dynamic and motivated finance team. You must be able to demonstrate the ability to:
1. Support the Business Advisor in providing a robust financial planning and reporting service to a Division including month-end closedown, financial forecasting, and risk assessment.
2. Manage a small team of staff ensuring priorities are delivered to expected standards and timescales and that staff receive regular appraisals and development opportunities.
3. Communicate effectively and build positive working relationships with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds and professions.
4. Deputise for the Business Advisor as required, including representation at a number of senior forums.
Proficient in the use of a wide range of IT systems including financial ledger is essential.
Main Duties of the Job
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled, and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries about the expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net.
About Us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch, and Worcester. Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
* Best services for local people
* Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
* Best use of resources
* Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services, and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job Responsibilities
Job Purpose
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Business Advisor (Clinical Division) in providing a comprehensive financial management and business support service to the Division. The Senior Divisional Finance Manager will be expected to deputise for the Divisional Business Advisor as and when required. This will therefore require knowledge of all services within the Division.
The post holder will be responsible on a day-to-day basis for the management of the Divisional Management Accounts team providing financial planning, reporting, training, and business support to the Division. The Senior Divisional Finance Manager will be responsible for recruitment, training, development, performance, and disciplinary issues of the staff accountable to them.
Key Duties
Financial Planning and Reporting:
1. Produce accurate, timely, and appropriate monthly financial and performance management information for the Directorates, including the monthly management accounts within Trust agreed timescales supporting the Business Advisor (Clinical Division) in providing financial support to the Division.
2. Quality assures accruals, prepayments, and adjustments to be reflected in the monthly management accounts and maintains a clear audit trail by means of adherence to financial procedures.
3. Ensure that reports are of the highest quality by actively contributing to the quality assurance process and producing key validations and reconciliations.
4. Lead, coordinate, and manage the process of annual financial planning and budget setting for Directorates and the Division working within an agreed corporate framework advising on short, medium, and long-term strategic, financial, and business planning issues.
5. Work closely alongside the Directorate and Divisional Managers, Clinical Service Leads, Senior Nurses in the annual financial planning process for the group, including identifying, coordinating, and quantifying Service Developments, Cost Pressures, Cost Improvement Programmes (Cash Releasing Efficiency Savings), and Capital Bids to support the annual objectives.
6. Support the development of the annual business plan for the Directorate and Division, including the setting of objectives to achieve key performance targets and facilitate the delivery of national targets.
The range of duties outlined above is not exhaustive and are subject to modification in light of changing service needs. In addition to the above, the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
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