Finance Manager - Health Innovation Network

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you passionate about improving healthcare, addressing inequalities, and using the Finance function to help drive improvements in health and care outcomes for our south London population?

We have an opportunity for a creative and passionate Finance Manager to join us at the award-winning Health Innovation Network (HIN). Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, we enjoy the benefits of being NHS members of staff whilst focusing on innovation to improve the lives of patients and staff in the health and care sector.

The main purpose of this post is to support the programme teams at the HIN with the financial management of their projects, and ensuring senior managers, executive directors, the board, and our commissioners have a clear overview of the financial position of the organisation. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, from delivering transformational programmes to improving patient pathways, or internally with our wide range of health and mental health wellbeing initiatives.

This is a role for someone who wants to move out of the normal finance role to work most closely with project teams and contribute to the strategic direction of an exciting and interesting organisation within the NHS. External secondments from other NHS Trusts will be considered.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will report to, and work closely with, the Head of Finance & Corporate Support.

They will be a qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience, able to use accounting principals to answer queries and solve problems. They will line manage the Finance Support Officer and will be responsible for the day to day financial management of the organisation, including driving change and improvements.

They will work closely with the programme leads to ensure that individual project plans are robust and accurate. They will work with the Head of Finance & Corporate Support to produce monthly management accounts, including identifying and delivering improvements in the reporting.They will work closely with the PMO manager to drive greater synergies between finance and project management.

They will be comfortable working with, and if necessary challenging, senior colleagues. They will have high level excel skills, able to use excel to understand and answer questions as well as to build robust tools for the organisation to use to plan and track financial information. They will also have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to communicate complicated issues clearly and succinctly, both written and in person.

About us

The Health Innovation Network works across a range of health and care services through each of our clinical and innovation themes to transform care in diabetes, patient safety, mental health, cardiovascular, and health ageing and to accelerate innovations into the NHS.

AHSNs help mobilise the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. The HIN works with a range of expert support and services across the health and care sectors that support NHS innovators and companies to realise the commercial and economic potential of their innovations.

Our Values

Brave:we encourage our teams and others to be brave with their ideas and support them to try new things.

Kind:we care about each other, the people we work with, and about the health and wellbeing of south Londoners.

Open:we are open about what we do, and we share what we learn.

Different:we think differently, and we are strong because of our diverse background, talents, and experiences.

Together:we build communities and networks, we collaborate, and we connect.

We operate a hybrid working model with some remote work and some time on site. This post may be required to travel to any of our sites, though most on site time will be split between Evelina London's offices near Waterloo and Finance offices near London Bridge.

Date posted

05 June 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£58,698 to £65,095 a year inc HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

196-COF10227-T-B

Job locations

Beckett House

Lambeth Palace Road

London

SE1 7EU

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Important:

For your personal statement you will be asked to answer the following points:

i. The reasons why you are applying for the post.

ii. Details of any relevant experience gained either in a paid or voluntary capacity.

iii. Details of any training, education or other interests relevant to the post.

iv. Details of Personal Attributes you have to support your application.

For the first 3 questions please answer in no more than two sentences each. For the fourth point please can you describe your three greatest strengths and the three things that you feel would be most important to deliver this role successfully. For this part of statement do not exceed 400 words.

Applications that do not follow these instructions will not be considered.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Important:

For your personal statement you will be asked to answer the following points:

i. The reasons why you are applying for the post.

ii. Details of any relevant experience gained either in a paid or voluntary capacity.

iii. Details of any training, education or other interests relevant to the post.

iv. Details of Personal Attributes you have to support your application.

Applications that do not follow these instructions will not be considered.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

Excel skills
Technical accounting skills

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified Accountant
Post Qualification experience.

Experience

Essential

Understanding from experience of what the role involves
Understanding of the importance of relationships

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

Excel skills
Technical accounting skills

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified Accountant
Post Qualification experience.

Experience

Essential

Understanding from experience of what the role involves
Understanding of the importance of relationships

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).