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Job overview

Overarching responsibility for financial management for the Midlands regional budgets. This requires:  

•  A CCAB or CIMA qualification with extensive experience, full up to date membership and continuing professional development. 
• Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with a detailed working knowledge of forecasts, reporting and consolidation of data.
• Demonstrable experience of leading the setting of budgets.

·       Demonstrable experience of leading a team through month end processes to ensure that internal and external deadlines and requirements are met.

• Demonstrable experience of hands-on ability to update the financial ledger.

·       Significant ability to analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.

·       Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.

·       Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines. 

·       Track record of providing appropriate advice, support, judgements and decision making whilst delivering value for money.

An effective people manager, who sets high standards, motivates and develops staff and stakeholders and promotes personal, organisational and cultural development

Main duties of the job

·       Supervision of three staff including regular one to ones and objective setting.

·       Responsibility for the consolidation of the month end numbers.

·       Overall responsibility for the forecast model ensuring timeliness, accuracy and completeness.

·       Responsibility for budget holder and heads of service reporting overall including review and assurance of the monthly reports produced by the finance business partner team.

·       Responsibility for assurance of the ledger including the month end trial balance.

·       Attendance at director budget holder meetings with the relevant team member.

·       Responsibility for annual planning including stakeholder engagement and communications.

·       Responsibility for statutory accounts work e.g analytical review, journal tracker and notes to accounts for corporate areas only.

·       Deputising for the Assistant Director of Finance on all Financial Management areas.

Leading team events/ staff development

Working for our organisation

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new 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.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

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