Senior Finance Manager

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and conscientious individual to join the South West Regional Financial Reporting Team.

The role will be responsible for supporting the overall financial performance of the South West Region by :

• Ensuring risk is managed and balanced across organisations, systems and the Region;
• Managing and actively promoting system working to ensure best value for money;
• Ensuring systems and processes are in place to enable sound financial control;
• Providing necessary advice, support, challenge to organisations and the systems;
• Work with systems and organisations to develop sustainable financial strategies;
• Help promote a continuous improvement work environment.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Finance Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective financial service supporting managers and staff across the South West Region.

In particular, the postholder will :

• Support the process for ensuring that the monthly reporting of the financial position of the systems within the Region happens in a timely manner, and is supported by high quality information analysis;
• Support the analysis of systems', financial performance and, in particular, their efficiency and support the reporting and sharing of best practice across the Region;
• Provide support, and ensure, accurate and open communication and co-ordination with finance staff from all South West systems including directly liaising with Finance Deputies and Heads of Management Accounts to obtain information required;
• Develop, and implement, financial summary information regarding systems' financial plans and in-year performance to ensure these are properly understood and communicated in a timely fashion to other Regional colleagues;
• Provide financial analysis to support the delivery of regulatory responsibilities, including assurance of service change processes, transactions and other reviews;
• Provide other ad hoc analysis and other reporting requirements as requested;
• Pro-actively manage their own training and development requirements.

About us

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by :

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

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Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the job are :

• Co-ordinate IFR downloads, and responsible for running the monthly IFR Consolidation tool
• Co-ordinate PFR downloads, and responsible for running the PFR Flash Report and checking consistency with IFRs
• Responsibility for managing the forms submission process on behalf of the Region, including liaising with national submissions leads and escalating late or erroneous submissions to appropriate Relationship Leads
• Set up monthly KLoE templates for each ICS in line with the Relationship Leads expectations
• Responsible for receiving the national Power BI Reporting tool and working with the Head of Finance Reporting to ensure this works effectively for the SW reporting requirements
• Oversee completion of monthly Assurance Reporting information in line with the month end timetable
• Co-ordinate the sharing of Power BI System Reports to individual systems
• Working with ICS Relationship Leads to identify opportunities to produce information which supports the assurance of systems
• Co-ordinate the local Heads Up Report for the annual planning process
• Hold ICB manual adjustment codes and co-ordinate national team return for any monthly changes
• Support the Agreement of Balances process by co-ordinating the Systems Mismatch Reports
• ICS Local Assurance Reporting Support to respond to requests for information on an ad hoc basis

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

CCAB finalist who has successfully passed their final examinations and needs only to complete relevant work experience to qualify

Desirable

Fully qualified CCAB accountant (certification proof required)

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• At least two years' post-qualification experience working in finance in a large or complex organisation, ideally within the NHS
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.

Desirable

• Experience of working in finance for at least three years.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.

Skills, Capabilities & Attributes

Essential

• High standard of ability to communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues both orally and written.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently using own initiative
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to stay calm in difficult situations within meetings about matters of potential controversy
• Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present complex and sensitive information.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• Able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies

Values and behaviours

Essential

• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
• Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
• Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
• Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
• Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.

Other

Essential

• Able to travel across various sites when applicable
30+ days ago