Job Title: Senior Finance and Performance Analyst
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working pattern - 3 days office based in Nuneaton - 2 days home based)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £37,338- £44,962 per annum
Closing Date: 9th February 2025
Interview Date: 26th February 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Dependent on the successful candidates existing qualifications, skills and experience, a development pathway towards future higher banding possibilities will be created to support their ongoing development and their ability to apply their skills and experience across the Trusts financial functions. The successful candidate must be willing to undertake a development pathway and hold a CCAB qualification or be willing to work towards.
Main duties of the job
Are you a finance professional with NHS Experience?
Recently qualified or finalist accountant?
Want to work in an award-winning team, passionate about creating change and making a difference?
Then this could be the role for you!
* Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner you will be working with our Surgery & Clinical Support Services Directorates (circa. £75m expenditure budgets).
* Providing accurate and relevant financial information to operational management teams, and holistic financial advice on all business related aspects of their services, including budget management (income & expenditure), capital investments, development of business cases, identification of savings programmes, service re-designs etc.
* Supporting service leads to understand, monitor and actively manage their monthly financial performance ensuring issues or queries are addressed and/or escalated if necessary.
* Working closely with service leads, enabling them to interpret financial information and control financial variances, offering guidance & advice, allowing potential financial issues to be identified early, and for effective mitigations to be put in place.
* Supporting the financial monitoring of Cost & Productivity Improvement Programmes, ensuring schemes are identified with clear rationale, and measured appropriately and in a timely manner.
Job responsibilities
* To provide financial management support for one or more Directorates providing high quality information, support, and advice ensuring a cohesive approach to activity, income, expenditure, and workforce.
* To work closely with the clinical & operational managers and relevant budget holders.
* To support the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial and strategic issues.
* To support the Head of Financial Management in providing financial reporting, planning, forecasting, and advisory service at a Directorate level to the senior management team and Directors.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
* Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
* Evidence of experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
* Experience of supporting the annual financial planning and budget setting process
* Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
Desirable
* Acute Sector experience
* Experience of procurement
* Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
* Experience of staff management
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Understanding of NHS planning and reporting processes
* Able to create and develop spreadsheets
* Able to apply appropriate costing methodologies in accordance with best practice
* Ability to contribute to the understanding of financial information of CBUs and the Trust
* Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
* Good interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills
* Ability to develop innovative problem-solving approaches and to work to demanding timescales
* Detailed knowledge of General Ledger systems and reporting tools. Able to handle large quantities of data and evaluate complex financial problems
* Good report writing skills
Desirable
* Application of change management tools and techniques
* Programming or software knowledge working with highly complex systems and a variety of information sources
* Ability to handle complex budgets and manage change
* Experience of supporting the production of financials for business cases
* Ability to make judgements, assess and quantify risk and determine the impact of decisions and actions on the organisation
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Professional and personal credibility and integrity
* Team player
* Able both to lead and to support others to achieve objectives
* Calm and resolute under pressure
Employer details
Employer name
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Address
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street
Nuneaton
CV10 7DJ
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