Main area: Finance
Grade Band: 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working.)
Job ref: 437-6984657
Site: Prestwich Hospital
Town: Bury
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a fully qualified, highly motivated, and significantly experienced finance leader to join GMMH. The role of Senior Finance Business Partner provides high-quality financial management advice and support to managers and clinicians across GMMH’s Care Groups and leadership to the Care Group Finance team.
The person we are looking for:
* Fully Qualified CCAB or ACMA Accountant.
* Highly motivated and proactive
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Experience of working in financial management roles.
* Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing.
* Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
* Ability to manage staff and motivate colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have an excellent understanding of the NHS finance regime, along with strong technical and leadership skills to help the Trust deliver the financial plan.
You will need to possess excellent communication and leadership skills and a real commitment to excellent service delivery. You must be creative and innovative, with the desire and ability to propose changes to working practices and procedures.
The successful person will be responsible for improvements in systems and processes to improve the speed and accuracy of reporting, financial analysis and planning, and internal controls.
You will deliver effective communication and have excellent interpersonal and staff management skills, together with strong negotiating skills. A good understanding of NHS finance, including financial planning, budgetary control and performance management is essential.
The postholder will be a key member of the divisional senior management team and will provide expert finance advice and guidance to divisional colleagues and be jointly responsible with other SMT members.
The postholder will produce reports on the financial plans and the performance of a large Clinical Care Group.
Any applicants will require a full professional accountancy qualification as well as significant post qualification experience working in a senior finance manager role.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford, and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
* 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
* Degree level education.
* CCAB Accountancy Qualification.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
* Ability to demonstrate detailed experience and expert knowledge of the key accounting areas, including the key procedures and policies, NHS financial legislation, key computer systems such as financial ledgers and of providing specialist advice on a full range of financial issues including both revenue and capital.
* Ability to manage a team of finance staff, delivering support, coaching and training, organizing recruitment activities, providing mechanisms for appraisal and dealing with disciplinary/absence issues.
* Knowledge of human resource techniques, required to lead, develop and maximise the performance of subordinate staff.
* Creative and innovative, with the desire and ability to propose changes to working practices and procedures.
* Experience of successfully working with and engaging with senior clinicians, operational managers and other stakeholders to understand data and develop action plans.
* Experience of benchmarking, analysing results, data visualisation and presenting opportunities, using a range of complex data sources.
* A successful track record at a senior level within the NHS.
* Operational management experience including project/change management.
* Track record of stakeholder engagement.
Knowledge
* An appreciation of the NHS financial regime.
* Thorough understanding of NHS targets.
* Seeking out opportunities.
Skills
* Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with all disciplines and seniorities.
* Proven ability to operate/think laterally.
* Strong numeracy and analytical skills.
* A high standard of general computer literacy.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Politically astute.
* Ability to understand and interpret complex financial information.
* Ability to lead team building, coaching and motivating staff both finance and non-finance with regards to their financial responsibilities.
* Ability to take the lead on key developments, acting as a specialist in a particular financial area.
* Ability to balance different aspects of the role, and prioritise work across a wide area.
* Ability to see the wider corporate view, and make decisions which are in the best interests of the organisation.
* Ability to take responsibility for own workload and overseeing that of others, forward planning, working flexibly and prioritising competing demands.
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to chair meetings and deal with issues covering a wide range of parties.
* Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Personal Qualities
* Flexible approach to work.
* Strongly proactive and solution orientated.
* Qualities of perseverance, determination, and adaptability.
* Evidence of strategic thinking and innovation.
* Ability to prioritise and work with imposed deadlines.
* Team player.
* A confident, pleasant approach, willing to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and working with multidisciplinary teams.
* Good personal organisation and planning.
* Creative and innovative.
Other
* This role will involve engagement, virtually and in person, with colleagues at different sites across the Trust’s locations, including: Wigan; Bolton; Manchester; Salford; Trafford; The role may sometimes require travel beyond these areas (e.g. national events and/or conferences).
Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. For further information on the checks required, please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
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