Finance Business Partner - Acute - In System
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB
Are you a finance professional looking to make a real impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment? Join our team as a Finance Business Partner, where you will play a key role in delivering excellent financial management services to our Integrated Care Board (ICB).
This is an opportunity to develop your career while working closely with senior leaders, healthcare providers, and stakeholders across the system. You will act as a financial expert and key link across multiple contracts, supporting the business in achieving its performance and efficiency goals.
Main Duties of the Job
To partner with the senior Operational Teams within their dedicated Directorate ensuring they get the business and financial support they need to run their Directorate. The role works in close partnership with the directorate to help drive transformation as well as value for money.
Part of a team of Finance professionals, responsible for the provision of an expert financial management service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporate departments.
To lead and be responsible for the monthly reporting for these areas, income and expenditure, ensuring that information produced is robust, accurate and owned by appropriate individuals.
To support the development of Cost Improvement Programme schemes (CIPs) and the financial modelling of service developments, ensuring that the information produced is robust, accurate and that plans are deliverable.
To support the Head of System Reporting and Corporate with the development and implementation of the ICB's medium to long-term strategy.
To support the Head of System Reporting and Corporate in the delivery of corporate tasks and objectives, assuming responsibility for the delivery of a range of tasks.
Work with and cover Directorate Business Partners to ensure the senior team in the Directorates are supported in the decisions and running of the Directorate.
About Us
In the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers the geography across three counties and aligns with the local authority boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3 acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of public money each year.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Job Responsibilities
For more information about the job, please see the job description attached to this vacancy.
What We're Looking For:
* AAT Qualified or CCAB Part-Qualified or equivalent experience in a similar role.
* Experience in producing finance reports, ledger management, and variance analysis.
* Strong Excel and financial systems skills.
* Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
* A proactive approach to problem-solving and improving processes.
Why Join Us?
* Career Growth: Develop your skills in a supportive and dynamic finance team.
* Make an Impact: Help drive financial efficiency and service improvement across the ICB.
* Work-Life Balance: Flexible working opportunities available.
Person Specification
Experience
* Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner.
* Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and good analytical skills.
* Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to often changing and tight timescales.
* Ability to question and challenge budget holders and other staff where appropriate to hold them to account for budgetary spend.
* Ability to gain clinical engagement.
* Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation with staff on challenging and detailed issues.
* Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to overcome barriers to acceptance.
* Must be able to prioritise own work effectively, manage and motivate a team and review individual performance.
* Excellent Microsoft office skills and advanced Excel.
* Knowledge of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
* Ability to work well with colleagues with diverse identities and contribute to a positive culture.
* Demonstrate professional integrity, civility and respect at the workplace.
Qualifications
* CCAB qualified or equivalent with 2-5 years post qualification experience at a senior level inside or outside the NHS.
* Post qualification experience in a financial management role. 2 years or more.
* Wide knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
* Experience of assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
* Evidenced continuous professional development record.
Equality & Diversity
* The organisation is committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all staff and for those who access services. You must work in accordance with equal opportunity policies/procedures, promote and contribute to the equality, diversity and inclusion plans of the organisation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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