Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To work as part of the Financial Management team to provide financial advice, support and guidance to the directorates in accordance with the Trust's policies and procedures for financial management and corporate governance.
2. To attend meetings on behalf of the Senior Finance Manager as and when required.
3. Working closely with other Financial Analysts, Management Accounts Team and Financial Accounts team to ensure that accurate financial reports are completed within agreed deadlines.
4. Providing analyses as required to the Senior Finance Manager, Head of Financial Management, Directorate Managers and Budget Holders to support the monthly Directorate reports including:
* Variance analysis
* Analysis of actuals versus forecast
* Monthly/quarterly reforecast
* Analysis of significant accruals
* Narrative report focusing on key issues and risks
1. To provide comprehensive financial support to the Clinical Support Services Division including the month end processes, raising of research related invoices, tracking of billing and income.
2. To work closely with members of the research services and research delivery teams to ensure studies are costed correctly and liaise with support departments to capture costs and attribute income.
3. To hold regular meetings with Budget Holders to review their monthly financial position and discuss areas of over-spend and mitigations.
4. To ensure that budgets are accurately input into the ledger and that a full audit trail exists for changes to budgets.
5. To review transactions continuously within Directorate to ensure compliance with delegated limits and approved processes ensuring that, where breaches have occurred, appropriate disclosure is made and action taken to prevent recurrence.
6. To assist in the identification of efficiency savings. To give guidance on the implementation of cost improvement programmes and recovery plans and to facilitate the delivery of a cost efficient and effective service.
7. To ensure that all accounting adjustments are appropriately authorised and disclosed.
8. To assist the Senior Finance Manager and Financial Accounts in the dissemination of financial policies and procedures to appropriate staff and managers. To assist actively in the training of non-financial staff in developing a wider understanding of financial policies and procedures and the financial circumstances of the Directorate.
9. To assist the Financial Planning Team in the preparation of annual financial budgets for the Directorate and clearly understand the planned activity these resources are intended to support.
10. To maintain budgets in the ledger to reflect accurately the Directorate's activity, income and expenditure plans.
11. To maintain cost centre budget establishments reconciling to the budget in the ledger and work with the HR Workforce Team to reconcile to ESR.
12. To assist in the development of training of managers throughout the directorate in the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions and core financial and budgetary procedures.
13. To support the Senior Finance Manager in ensuring effective communication throughout the Directorate on relevant and key issues for finance.
14. Provide ad-hoc costing information or financial analysis to Budget Holders and Senior Finance Manager as and when required.
Person specification
Essential
* Be actively studying for a CCAB qualification, for at least one year, or be part qualified.
* Experience in the full financial management cycle for a division or equivalent, including budget setting, savings plans, budget management, staff costings and year-end accounts.
* Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment, and to strict deadlines.
* Highly experienced user of MS Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Desirable criteria
* Experienced User of Reporting Systems (e.g. Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Qlikview).
* Oracle Financial Systems and related applications.
Important
* The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
* Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
* If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
* In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
* During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
* Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
* Finance Analysis JD ( PDF, 968.2 KB )
* Functional Requirements ( PDF, 390.8 KB )
* Guidance for applicants ( PDF, 85.4 KB )
* Policy Statement ( PDF, 144.5 KB )
* Staff Benefits and Wellbeing ( PDF, 196.5 KB )
* Recruitment Pack ( PDF, 2.8 MB )
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