Job Summary
We are looking for a candidate who is keen to start or to continue their career in NHS finance.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic CCAB/CIMA qualified accountant, who has extensive experience in effective financial management, possesses strong management and communication skills, as well as excellent analytical, technical and IT skills from within the Public or Private sector. You will have the ability to operate at a strategic level, work under pressure, and manage multiple and conflicting deadlines.
As a Financial Management team, we offer a dynamic, diverse, and developmental environment to nurture and enhance your career within the NHS. We have embedded a culture of strong teamwork, ensuring we get quality time together to build and enhance inter-team relationships.
The Finance Directorate actively promotes training and development within the team, having developed a comprehensive finance education strategy and holding Level 2 accreditation in Towards Excellence and Future Focused Finance. We are an active member of the FSD (Finance Skills Development) Network, Future Focused Finance, and Towards Excellence scheme.
Main Duties of the Job
The Divisional Finance Manager role is accountable to a selection of Corporate Divisions, as well as being the lead accountant for all aspects of internal and external reporting, supporting the Trust's financial planning process, managing a small team, and reporting into the Head of Financial Management. In addition to working closely with other areas of the Finance Directorate.
The role provides high quality, accurate, and timely professional financial management advice, monitoring, and reporting services to a range of divisions.
You will be the lead Finance contact for several Divisions, being the key point of contact for budget holders and managers.
You will also provide support and input to projects, business cases, and service developments.
We recognize how important modern working practices are to enable our employees to maximize their performance and productivity while maintaining an excellent work-life balance, so we have adopted a hybrid office/home working approach where employees have the opportunity to work either from home or flex their time between both.
Job Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Provide support to the Assistant Director of Finance (ADoF) and Head of Financial Management (HoFM) in providing an effective monitoring and reporting service to the trust in accordance with the agreed timetables, procedures, and standards prescribed within the trust.
2. Provide high quality professional financial management advice and support service, acting as lead accountant and contact point for a range of clinical and non-clinical divisions to ensure that these divisions/directorates achieve financial balance and that financial pressures are highlighted at an early stage and appropriate action identified.
3. Provide specialist strategic, financial, and business skills input into the planning of any service development including strategic change within the division/directorate as appropriate to ensure that divisional/directorate objectives are affordable within available resources consistent with organisational financial strategy.
4. Provide support and input to projects within finance or across the Trust as assigned.
5. Co-ordinate the production of divisional monthly financial management information in line with agreed timetables and to feed into the trust reporting framework with reports taken to internal committees as well as reported externally.
6. Co-ordinate the budget setting process for division(s)/directorates by establishing and maintaining systems and procedures and ensuring the production of working papers to enable the formulation of the Trust budget book.
7. Interpret financial information and communicate variances from budget and any areas of potential risk to senior managers and offer guidance and advice to enable action plans to be formulated which maximize the financial resources available.
8. Proactively assist colleagues in managing budgets and continually act to promote financial control and stewardship to safeguard the use of funds and promote value for money.
9. Accurately forecast the year-end financial position of the division/directorates on a monthly basis to enable the year-end position for the trust/charity to be provided to the board.
10. Responsible for prioritising own work and that of specific sub-teams(s) within the divisional financial management team.
11. Provide input to the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and protocols for the provision of financial management information to ensure the trust complies with statutory and internal requirements.
12. Provide cover for other financial management team members' absences, including supporting other divisions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* CCAB/CIMA Qualified Accountant
* Demonstrate Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
* Degree
Experience
Essential
* Have post qualification experience (3 years minimum) in a senior role, working as a senior manager within a complex finance department.
* Experience in working in a multi-agency and disciplinary environment.
* Significant experience of management accounting.
* Experience of managing, motivating, and developing staff.
* Experience of computerised financial systems.
Desirable
* Experience of NHS finance and the NHS financial regime.
* Experience in the preparation of the statutory annual accounts process.
* Experience of the Charity/third sector accounting.
* Experience of Research grants and contracts accounting.
Skills
Essential
* Excellent analytical and reasoning skills.
* Ability to prepare and present financial information to non-financial people.
* Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
* Proficient in the use of computerised and manual financial systems.
Knowledge
Essential
* In-depth knowledge of the NHS financial regime including Payment by Results and the impact on Trust income.
* Knowledge of the FT financial regime including an understanding of the compliance framework.
Values
Essential
* Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours.
Other
Essential
* Be able to manage time effectively, prioritise and deliver to agreed deadlines.
* Enthusiasm, determination, motivated and positive.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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