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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. 

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• 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