We are recruiting for a Deputy Head of Reportingwho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
An opportunity has arisen for a 12-month secondment or fixed term contract for an experienced individual who would like to develop their financial management and leadership skills in a large acute Trust.
As Deputy Head of Reporting within the dedicated and dynamic management Accounts team, your role will be pivotal in ensuring that the Trust produces accurate and timely financial reports. A key focus of the role will be to ensure that the department continually assesses opportunities to automate and improve its month end processes.
You will have significant experience of management accounting and financial reporting and should be able to demonstrate a track record of successfully implementing improvements to core financial processes.
You will be an ambitious, motivated and an experienced Finance professional who is keen to support the finance department and our key operational and clinical stakeholders.
The Finance department is close to achieving "One NHS Towards Excellence Accreditation level 2" and offers excellent opportunities for training and professional studying.
This role will be Hybrid working to include office attendance 2 to 3 days a week.
Our Values areInclude,Respect, andImprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
To provide, in conjunction with the Head of Reporting, a full and comprehensive service to ensure the accurate and timely reporting of the monthly financial position.
To develop, improve, automate and standardise month end processes to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the reporting section.
To liaise with the Divisional Finance Teams to ensure that all budget holders are met regularly and have appropriate training, and that any queries are promptly and appropriately resolved or escalated as appropriate.
To be responsible for the day-to-day line management, and development, of the management accounts apprentices.
Provide highly complex financial advice and information to one or more areas through the investigation, analysis, manipulation and presentation of data from integrated finance and information systems.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Sep 2024