Finance Business Partner

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

The closing date is 15 September 2024

Job summary

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working pattern - 3 days office based in Nuneaton - 2 days home based)

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary : £46,148 - £52,809 per annum*

Closing Date: 15th September 2024

Interview Date: 25th September 2024

* Salary advertised will be from October 2024. Until October 2024 the salary is £43,742-£50,056 Per annum.

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Main duties of the job

Are you a finance professional with NHS Experience?

Recently qualified or finalist accountant?

Want to work in an award-winning team, passionate about creating change and making a difference?

Then this could be the role for you!

Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner you will be working with our Surgery & Clinical Support Services Directorates (circa. £65m expenditure budgets).

In addition to the providing accurate and relevant financial information to operational management teams, you will provide holistic financial advice on all business related aspects of their services. This will include, but is not limited to; budget management (income & expenditure), capital investments, development of business cases, identification of savings programmes, service re-designs etc.

You will be supporting service leads to understand, monitor and actively manage their monthly financial performance; ensuring issues or queries are addressed and/or escalated if necessary.

You will work closely with service leads, enabling them to freely interpret financial information and control financial variances, offering guidance & advice, allowing potential financial issues to be identified at an early stage, and for effective mitigations to be put in place.

You will work closely with our Income & Contracts team, ensuring the managers understand all aspects of finance including income reporting, patient level costing, activity currencies, contribution and profitability.

You will support the financial monitoring of Cost & Productivity Improvement Programmes, ensuring schemes are identified with clear rationale, and measured appropriately, and in a timely manner.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits:On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Date posted

27 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

230-32733383-CORP-FBP-A

Job locations

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide financial management support for one or more Directorates providing high quality information, support and advice ensuring a cohesive approach to activity, income, expenditure and workforce.

To work closely with the clinical & operational managers and relevant budget holders, ensuring the provision of a finance business partnering service.

To support the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial and strategic issues.

To support the Head of Financial Management in providing financial reporting, planning, forecasting and advisory service at a Directorate level to the senior management team and Directors.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide financial management support for one or more Directorates providing high quality information, support and advice ensuring a cohesive approach to activity, income, expenditure and workforce.

To work closely with the clinical & operational managers and relevant budget holders, ensuring the provision of a finance business partnering service.

To support the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial and strategic issues.

To support the Head of Financial Management in providing financial reporting, planning, forecasting and advisory service at a Directorate level to the senior management team and Directors.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • CCAB (or equivalent) qualified accountant- or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • An additional management or business qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 1 year experience post-qualification
  • Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
  • Evidence of significant experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
  • Experience of responsibility for financial planning and budget setting
  • Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
  • Experience of presenting information to non-specialist colleagues including senior clinicians (or equivalent)
  • Experience of supervisory management

Desirable

  • Evidence of experience in costing, Service Line Reporting in particular
  • Acute Sector experience
  • Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • CCAB (or equivalent) qualified accountant- or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • An additional management or business qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 1 year experience post-qualification
  • Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
  • Evidence of significant experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
  • Experience of responsibility for financial planning and budget setting
  • Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
  • Experience of presenting information to non-specialist colleagues including senior clinicians (or equivalent)
  • Experience of supervisory management

Desirable

  • Evidence of experience in costing, Service Line Reporting in particular
  • Acute Sector experience
  • Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ


Employer's website

http://www.geh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ


Employer's website

http://www.geh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Senior Finance Business Partner

Beth Dunton

bethany.dunton@geh.nhs.uk

Date posted

27 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

230-32733383-CORP-FBP-A

Job locations

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ


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