RELATIONSHIPS To support and develop the Finance Business Partners and Management Accounts teams ensuring strong and highly effective relationship between finance and the operational managers. To support in ensuring Care Group Management Teams have an excellent understanding and take ownership of all elements of their current and future financial performance. To challenge all operational managers wherever possible to provide best value for money whilst upholding patient safety andmaximising the quality of care. To ensure a highly effective working relationship exists between the Management Accounts team and the Finance Business Partnerteam BUSINESS PLANNING To support in guiding and influencing Care Group(s), Service Lines and Executive Management Teams in all aspects of financialstrategy. Assisting the Associate Director of Finance Financial Performance in the preparation, validation and presentation of baselinebudgets, cost pressures and developments. Work with the Head of Financial Management to ensure the team work to a strong and efficient budget setting framework, and clearworkforce planning assumptions. Work with the Associate Director of Finance Contracts and Trustwide to ensure the team work within a clear framework for capacityand demand planning. To ensure that the budget framework is well understood by Operational managers. Manage the Finance Business Partners and Management Accounts team to ensure capacity plans, contract levels and budgets are setaccurately. Encourage and influence Care Group and Service Line Management Teams to ensure cost-effective decision making by management,using highly developed persuasion, motivation, and negotiation skill. To support and influence Care Groups to identify, develop and implement Financial Saving Plans. FINANCIAL REPORTING To manage and assist in developing the Management Accounting team to deliver accurate budgets, in month financial reporting andannual forecasts. To work closely with the Associate Director of Finance Financial Performance to develop the accuracy and efficiency of monthly financial reporting for Service Lines, Care Groups and Executive Teams. Produce or assist in the production of reports to the Trust Board. FORECASTING To work in alignment with the Associate Director of Finance Financial Performance to create a strong and efficient forecastingframework To ensure that the forecasting framework is well understood by the Management Accountants, Operational Managers and Clinicians. Work with Operational Management Teams to generate annual forecasts of Service Lines financial performance as required,considering likely profiles of activity, cost behaviours, savings plans and other influencing factors. To review Care Group(s) and Service Line forecasts and challenge the financial assumptions made within them ensuring consistencyand maximising accuracy. To support the development, implementation, and monitoring of corrective action plans to ensure that financial targets are delivered. SPECIALIST BUSINESS ADVICE Utilising advanced specialist knowledge of complex NHS/Trust accounting systems, processes, regulations, financial techniques, andrelevant legislation; NHS Tariff guidance and Contractual requirements, together with general commercial awareness, for individualServices to: To influence and support the development of Care Group financial strategies ensuring that services provide value for moneyand are financially sustainable whilst delivering key operational standards. Utilise the Model Hospital, GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) information and other available benchmarking to work with Care Groups and Service Lines to identify and deliver improvements, reduce variation, and improve efficiency. Work with Care Group Managers and Directors on developing their Financial Improvement Programmes, assisting with oversight and challenge to support the Associate Director of Finance Financial Improvement. Ensure the team accurately measure, monitor, and forecast achievement. Work with Care Group Managers and Directors to assist them in their oversight, clarity and understanding of the service line viability position for their service lines. Encourage and influence Service Line Management Teams to ensure cost-effective decision making by management, using high developed persuasion, motivation, and negotiation skills. Investigate highly complex financial queries on income and expenditure, conducting regular complicated analytical reviews of the Service Line financial position, predicting income, developing, and using complex models and multiple inputs including activity projections and case mix issues. To have an understanding and strive to improve the accuracy and integrity of your Care Group/s Service Line financial information including profitability reports and National Cost Collection/Patient Level Costing returns. Ensure monthly reconciliation of all changes to service line positions, working closely with the Costing Team and Finance Business Partners. Provide advanced financial support for business cases as appropriate describing the financial implications of the business case and investment appraisal techniques. Present business cases to groups of people conveying the financial case clearly and persuasively. Work with the Associate Director of Finance Contracts and Trustwide to ensure visibility of contractual issue for your Care Groups, and that Finance Business Partners assist to construct any papers required. Ensure Service Lines accurately record all activity performed, and work with the Associate Director of Finance Contracts and Trustwide to ensure it is properly priced within contract monitoring. Working with the Associate Director of Finance Contracts and Trustwide to understand the impact of national tariff guidance across Care Groups. Interpreting guidance to assist Care Groups and Service Lines in understanding changes in guidance each year and the impact upon their services. Represent the Trust at meetings with Commissioner Colleagues as required to support any contractual issues within your Care Groups. Support the Associate Director of Finance Financial Improvement with the production of information, provide specialist financial advice to meetings and jointly work with the Service Lines on their Clinical Strategy. OTHER DUTIES Utilising professional and specialist finance knowledge and general management skills, for the Finance Directorate to: Deputise for the Associate Director of Finance Financial Performance Manage all aspects of own workload and the organisation of their teams workload to balance frequently changing prioritiesto deliver work within tight deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality of information and meeting the needs of ServiceLine/Care Group Management Teams. This will include using time management skills to ensure that workload and individualprojects are delivered in a timely and accurate manner and balancing the demands of the Service Lines requirements withmonth end and year-end financial reporting timetables. To coordinate with Service Line staff and Finance staff to ensure smooth delivery of deadlines for all aspects of work. Take responsibility for developing and implementing discrete areas of financial policy and processes in line with latestaccounting standards. To act in a professional manner at all times and instil the same standards in members of staff. To input and manipulate financial data in highly complex computer spreadsheets and reports, where speed and accuracy areessential. To undertake light physical effort and extended periods of computer use in an office environment. To concentrate when inputting data, checking, and reconciling information and making calculations. To cope with unpredictable work patterns and respond flexibly to queries and requests from Senior Finance and CareGroup/Service Line Managers and Clinical leads. To work under intense pressure on occasions and to concentrate on highly complex accounting information for prolongedperiods of time on a frequent basis. To supply internal and external auditors with any information and explanations they require regarding any aspects of theabove. To act on own initiative and to carry out the above duties in accordance with broad professional accounting standardswithout reference to line manager. The postholder will be required to travel on occasion. COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS Internal Face to face, Telephone, and virtual calls/meetings Executive Directors Chief Finance Officer Director of Operational Finance Associate Director of Finance Financial Performance Associate Director of Finance Contracts and Trustwide Associate Director of Finance Financial Improvement Associate Director of Finance Financial Reporting Head of Financial Management Head of Performance and Management Information Accountants Finance Business Partners Assistant Finance Business Partners Care Group Directors Cluster Group Managers Clinical Directors Service Line Managers Heads of Department Specialty Leads Specialty Managers Budget Holders Commissioning, Finance, and contracting colleagues from Commissioning Organisations Procurement and Logistics Managers and staff Other Service Line staff Other Trust staff as required Executive Board External - principally telephone and virtual calls/meetings Financial Shared Services Staff Other Providers Local ICBs NHS England Department of Health Trust debtors and creditors Other outside agencies including the external auditors, local authorities/social services Internal Training delivery Finance Staff Service Line Staff Budget Holders Trainee Managers Junior Doctors