Main area Accounts Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (2 days required on site as a minimum) Job ref 412-CORP-7068928
Site Infinity House Town Crewe Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
The postholder will be fully responsible for providing a comprehensive financial management and support service to designated divisions, providing a full range of advice to the Divisional Director and other Senior Managers within the division.
This is a senior role where the postholder will be required to be a member of the Divisional Board presenting highly complex and sometimes contentious information.
To take a prominent role within the Division’s Senior Management Team, which meets weekly to discuss areas of concern within the Division. To recommend new ways of working not just in a financial capacity but also as a business partner– looking at the ‘bigger picture’.
The postholder will operate autonomously in decision making, working with senior management in the decision making process within the context of the Divisional and Corporate objectives ensuring adherence to financial controls.
The postholder will require technical accounting and business knowledge, strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex financial issues effectively to groups and senior non-financial people, including divisional boards and executive teams.
The postholder will also constructively challenge all aspects of divisional performance whilst maintaining a team ethic within the division.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Management Accounts Team for a talented individual to fill a key post as a Finance Business Partner.
The post holder will be responsible for the production of comprehensive financial reports, offering advice and guidance, and delivering highly complex costings to the Operational Teams. We are looking for an individual with strong analytical and reasoning skills, who can work autonomously and as part of a team, and has excellent communication skills.
Applicants must be CCAB qualified with post qualification experience in a senior finance role and have an advanced understanding of financial management. Advanced excel skills are essential to this role.
The team supports a culture of continual learning as part of the finance team ambition to become finance skills development (FSD) accredited to level 3.
Postholder will be required to be onsite for a minimum of 2 days a week.
Working for our organisation
The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
It employs more than 4,500 members of staff, has around 550 hospital beds, and provides a range of services including A&E, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.
The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a new and unique local health partnership that provides a range of community health services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
FINANCIAL
* To provide financial intelligence, advice and to make recommendations to the Divisional Director, Clinical Director and other senior managers within the division. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be taken.
* To take the lead in the formulation of the financial aspect of the divisional business cases in accordance with the Trust’s strategic aims and objectives.
* To play an active member of the Division’s Establishment Control Panel, ensuring that all posts are costed up correctly and that no posts are advertised without the authorisation of the Finance Business Partner.
* To prepare option appraisal reports for presentation to the Trust Board incorporating recommendations and where necessary conveying complex financial issues clearly and persuasively.
* To work with the Head of Management Accounts in the monthly corporate reporting cycle, including explanation of significant variance movements.
* To proactively investigate variances acting as a catalyst when discussing corrective action with managers.
* To develop new costing and budgeting methodologies to provide information for both managerial and commercial purposes.
* To produce a monthly forecast on the expected out-turn of expenditure and miscellaneous income positions of the Division.
* To monitor, analyse and report to the divisional board on divisional activity and corresponding income generation.
* To assist the Divisional Director, Clinical Director and other senior managers in identifying and achieving cost improvement and income generation targets.
GOVERNANCE
* To report monthly to the Divisional Board on Resource Effectiveness.
* To meet monthly with the Division at the Monthly Finance meeting to present the key financial issues facing the Divisions.
* Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
* To ensure that all financial training and budget management is provided to all budget managers.
* To present Financial Awareness sessions to new starters within the Trust.
PATIENT IMPACT
* To look at the bigger picture when working on Service Reviews.
* Benchmarking our services with other Trusts.
* To ensure that the KPI’s within Resource Effectiveness domain of the Clinical Governance Framework are reported accurately.
SYSTEMS AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT
* To monitor the service provided by the divisions to other Trusts in accordance with the SLA agreements.
* To take responsibility for reporting divisional budgetary performance.
MANAGERIAL/LEADERSHIP
* Ensure a healthy, safe and secure working environment, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Person specification
Behaviours
* Evidence that the postholder has acted as a role model.
* Evidence that the postholder does take personal responsibility.
Qualifications / Experience
* CCAB Qualified Accountant with at least 2 year post qualification experience.
Skills and Values
* Excellent communication skills with all levels of staff - written and verbally.
* Ability to prioritise, manage and generate own workloads.
Key Messages
· Please let us know if you require an adjustment to our recruitment process.
· All correspondence will be sent via the email address you have registered as your TRAC account.
· Selection is based on the Trust's values.
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