Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 249 - 6496643
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Pierre Simonet Building, V Park, Gateway North
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Assistant Finance Business Partner
Band 7
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
Assistant Finance Business Partner
This is an important role that is key to the success of both the Divisions and the organisation. The post holder is expected to work at a high level in the organisation demonstrating credibility with the Divisional Management teams, Head of Service and Clinicians at all levels.
Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, the post holder has the following key areas of responsibilities: -
- Preparing and submitting a monthly Management Accounts Pack to the Finance Business Partner and to budget holders, together with a commentary to accompany monthly management accounts.
- Designing, producing, and maintaining budget reports and other spreadsheet-based reports and models in accordance with agreed timetables and departmental policies and procedures.
- Preparing monthly variance reports for specific departments within a division, investigating any variances from the plan and identifying mitigation strategies.
- Meeting regularly with budget holders and providing information and analysis to them regarding their budgets.
- Supporting all the relevant budget holders in the preparation of their annual plan including provision of analysis and projections.
- Advising and supporting budget holders with possible areas for efficiency and productivity improvements
Main duties of the job
- To act as Business Partner to the directorates, providing financial information and expert advice at Directorate Review Meetings and to Directorate Managers and to the Trust Executive Team as and when required. To provide complex, sensitive, contentious information (financial and non-financial), advice and support to the Division. Present this and other performance information at Divisional and specialty management meetings on a regular basis.
- To produce monthly management accounts which have integrity and support Directorate individually, and consequently the Trust as a whole, in achieving their financial objectives.
- To be the key support for the Finance Business partner on all aspects of financial management within the Division in conjunction with the Divisional Operations team.
- Support the Finance Business Partner in improving links between activity, capacity and expenditure, in order to develop Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to inform decision making and inform financial plans and forecasting.
- To produce ongoing advice to budget holders on managing and understanding their expenditure variances and ensure by persuasion, negotiation and effective process management that corrective actions agreed by Division and individuals are delivered within the agreed timescales
Working for our organisation
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
- Service We will put our patients first
- Teamwork We will work together
- Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
- Respect We will act with integrity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Hold the specialities and services to account for its financial practice and position, challenging poor financial performance and delivery of the efficiency programme, ensuring all services are cost effective, efficient and provide best value.
Please see attached JD for full responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of CPD
- 1st degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- CCAB fully qualified accountant with significant experience in financial management within a large organisation and a member of a professional body
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good inter-personal skills, with the ability to develop strong working relationships with a wide range of Trust staff, managers and Directors
- • Ability to deal with large complex budgets and providing financial advice to non-financial managers that can be clearly understood
- • Creation, manipulation and presentation of highly complex spreadsheets with the ability to communicate effectively the information derived
- Excellent analytical and technical accountancy skills
Desirable criteria
- Experienced User of Financial Reporting Systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- In-depth knowledge of current NHS agenda and challenges and the NHS and its financial regime
- Advising on the management of large complex budgets and of providing financial advice to non-financial managers in a clearly understood and authoritative manner
- Expert knowledge of management accounting techniques and relevant Financial Reporting Standards
- Expert knowledge of the NHS and its financial regime and of NHS service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working in a Foundation Trust
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Hanselman
- Job title
- Finance Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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