Managerial responsibilities:
1. Communication and Relationships: Provides complex and sensitive information. Discusses and provides advice on potentially difficult financial and corporate issues to both non-financial Managers and Senior Finance staff. Advising on financial budgets (including staffing levels) ensuring these meet the Trust objectives.
2. Analytical and Judgemental Skills: Interpreting complex facts or situations to enable judgements to be made, which require the analysis and comparison of a range of options. This includes advising on the setting and monitoring of budgets, developing cost saving programmes, forecasting strategic and operational financial income and expenditure based on detailed information and assumptions gained through close working relationships with Divisional Management. Analysing complex financial trends involving lots of data sources and dealing with conflicting information and operational vs financial conflicts.
3. Planning and Organisation: Take the lead on planning and organising various finance projects, and assist management of a range of complex financial systems to ensure the accurate, timely and appropriate recording, monitoring, and reporting of Directorate costs and activities. Prepares budgets and financial estimates for service provision that forms the medium term to long term financial strategy of the Division. Balance conflicting priorities and alters plans frequently to incorporate both internal and external requirements.
4. Support and Advice: Provides support and advice to the Directorate Managers regarding the options available to rectify variances from plan, detailing the likely implications on workload capacity and the ability to meet agreed Directorate performance targets. Helps develop the most appropriate system to provide support and information for effective decision-making. To have a significant input alongside the Finance Manager in designing, implementing, and interpreting performance management systems to provide prompt feedback when plans are not being achieved and which provide details of the likely year-end position based on the best available information. Supporting and leading where appropriate the development and use of appropriate processes and structures within the Division to agree and monitor financial performance. Works closely with the Finance Manager to assist the Divisional Managers in the drawing up of budgets, business plans, and forecasts to deliver the best value services that meet the Directorate and Trusts objectives.
5. Authorised Signatory: Authorised signatory/approver for routine directorate expenditure, such as staff change forms and approvals for recruitment; prepares regular financial monitoring reports for both Division and Senior Finance Staff and contributes to budget setting. Requires a working understanding of the Trusts corporate objectives and strategy so as to be able to assist the Directorate Service Managers in translating these into objectives and strategies. Practical advice will cover such items as the financial framework, standing financial instructions and the use of business skills such as benchmarking.
6. Deep Dive Investigations: Undertake deep dive investigations using complex financial and operational information to ascertain service profitability through Service Line Reporting and support the Directorates in implementing improvements identified. Responsibility for Information Resources.
7. Data Management: Creates computerised databases and spreadsheets for the interpretation and presentation of financial and performance data for use by directorate colleagues.
8. Freedom to Act: Works to broad objectives and priorities set by the Finance Manager to then act without further reference to Manager. The postholder is expected to work within broad principles and policies of the Trust and the Finance Department and use their discretion to target their workload on the key issues which may change on a daily basis.
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