Senior Finance Business Partner - Band 8c
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £74,290.00 i £85,601.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £74290.00 - £85601.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Cheltenham, GL53 7AN |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9318-25-0568 |
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The main duties and responsibilities include: Financial Reporting To provide and develop appropriate accurate and timely financial information to all levels including Trust Board and any other committees given delegated responsibility by the Trust Board. To be responsible for the provision of relevant, accurate and timely financial information for both revenue and capital issues pertaining to the Division, enabling effective financial management. To ensure that consolidated income and expenditure reports and forecasts are produced for the Division and reviewed, advising Directors on implications, risks and working in partnership with them and other senior colleagues to develop and implement appropriate business strategies. To provide information and advice to support monthly reporting and accounting in respect of the areas within the current scope of the team, ensuring that this is done in a joined up approach with finance colleagues who have a dedicated link to Divisions. To ensure that financial reporting outputs are accurate, timely, fit for purpose and in suitable formats, providing guidance on high risk and highly complex technical issues as required. To ensure the completion of specific Trust returns, ensuring that any required data is collected and collated and the exercise is completed to time, sharing feedback with providers in a timely manner. To ensure that the team fulfils its responsibilities around the production of the statutory Annual Accounts, ensuring year-end accounting tasks are performed in line with year-end timetables. Financial Management To provide expert financial advice and information pertaining to Divisions for directors, budget managers and other managers, ensuring key financial concepts and issues are clearly understood. To help ensure that divisional plans support the delivery of high quality patient care and experience whilst using resources effectively and economically. To analyse and benchmark published data for the Trust against other similar organisations to gauge value for money and robustness of information, and to compare against peers and competitors; using findings to update future processes and to inform best practice. To coordinate and support bids to funding bodies, exploring opportunities and maximising income. Financial planning and budget setting To lead the development of annual and longer-term financial plans for the Division and to provide information to support the Trusts planning process. To ensure the setting of budgets using both past and future intelligence, making any assumptions as necessary and calculating forecast outturns. To support the preparation of divisional plans by providing business intelligence and developing guidance to provide support. Financial strategy and strategic planning To contribute to the formulation and development of key strategies and to play a pivotal role in the delivery of plans, projects and on-going activities in executing the Trusts core strategic aims and identified key priorities. To contribute to the achievement and development of the Trusts strategies and the development of associated operational plans which are accompanied by appropriate budgets and sign-off. To provide strategic financial support and advice into proposed divisional developments, including the development and review of business cases, providing scrutiny, challenge and expert knowledge and advice. To explore opportunities for new business, using a commercial approach as appropriate. To help ensure that strategies for the different service lines are aligned and are also aligned with cross-cutting agendas such as that pertaining to workforce planning. Efficiency, Cost Improvement (CIP), Financial Sustainability (FSP) and Productivity To support the development of an effective CIP/FSP Programme which is an agent for organisational and cultural change, driving delivery to support the operational and strategic objectives of the site. To support productivity improvement including communicating and explaining metrics to divisional colleagues. Work with service triumvirates to identify new and further initiatives for CIP/FSP. Supporting CIP/FSP leads to realise the benefits of allocated projects. Produce risk assessed CIP/FSP forecast and actuals reports to appropriate boards. Maintenance of all the required trackers including adherence to version control. Contracting and contract management To establish and maintain close working relationships with relevant organisations. To act as the day to day senior finance lead on matters pertaining to the Division with key external stakeholders. To enable robust management of income and activity within the Division. To review and assess the overall financial position of divisional contracts, working with others to ensure the provision of information around KPIs etc. Managerial responsibilities and contribution to service improvement: To foster partnership working with other parts of the wider finance team, ensuring that a seamless high quality service is provided. As a corporate Senior Manager, to take responsibility for the effective management of the Trusts resources and to participate in all aspects of corporate decision making. To contribute to reviewing and updating departmental procedures and processes with a view to improving the effectiveness of the department and the services provided. To contribute to specific development initiatives, such as the on-going development of service line reporting and patient level costing to provide accurate and timely information to business units to support effective financial management. To contribute to the development and maintenance of financial risk processes and project management arrangements. To continually review and audit the financial arrangement, carrying out research and benchmarking activities with other organisations to ensure that internal arrangements are fit for purpose and are developing to meet developing internal and external agendas. Communications and Working Relationships The post holder will require excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The post holder will be required to present highly complex and highly sensitive financial information to large audiences of varying experience. This will require highly developed presentation and influencing skills. The post holder will require negotiation and persuasive skills when communicating contentious information to staff and directorates where there may be significant barriers to acceptance. Attend Clinical Business meetings in the role of key finance lead for the services within the Divisions portfolio providing responses both written and verbal on financial performance issues. This will often include complex issues, which are open to interpretation and will require a multi layered communication and influencing skills. Staff Management and Training Be responsible for the overall management of the Divisional finance team, including motivating staff to meet deadlines and targets, recruitment, training, appraisal, implementation of HR policies and dealing with disciplinary/performance issues. Be responsible for the personal development of the Divisional finance team and ensure that every member of staff is regularly appraised and has a Personal Development Plan. The SFBP will act as the primary link between the Divisional finance team and other finance departments within the Trust (e.g. IT, systems, procurement, contracts, financial accounts) and be required to resolve all issues referred to them in this capacity on behalf of the team. Maintain an up to date, in depth specialist knowledge theory and experience of financial and accounting procedures, financial aspects of NHS legislation and NHS financial policies. Ensure that Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) are followed within the Division, involving training and advising staff and monitoring compliance. Where breaches are discovered, ensure appropriate action is taken, in compliance with Trust policies.