Job summary
Job Title: Senior Finance and Performance Analyst
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 : £37,338- £44,962 per annum
Closing Date: 9th February 2025
Interview Date: 26th February 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Dependent on the successful candidates existing qualifications, skills and experience, a development pathway towards future higher banding possibilities will be created to support their ongoing development and their ability to apply their skills and experience across the Trusts financial functions. The successful candidate must be willing to undertake a development pathway and hold a CCAB qualification or be willing to work towards.
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. £75m 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 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, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
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.
- 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.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
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.
- 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.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
- Evidence of experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
- Experience of supporting the annual financial planning and budget setting process
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
Desirable
- Acute Sector experience
- Experience of procurement
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
- Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
- Experience of staff management
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of NHS planning and reporting processes
- Able to create and develop spreadsheets
- Able to apply appropriate costing methodologies in accordance with best practice
- Ability to contribute to the understanding of financial information of CBUs and the Trust
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Good interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills
- Ability to develop innovative problem-solving approaches and to work to demanding timescales
- Detailed knowledge of General Ledger systems and reporting tools. Able to handle large quantities of data and evaluate complex financial problems
- Good report writing skills
Desirable
- Application of change management tools and techniques
- Programming or software knowledge working with highly complex systems and a variety of information sources
- Ability to handle complex budgets and manage change
- Have experience of supporting the production of financials for business cases
- Ability to make judgements, assess and quantify risk and determine the impact of decisions and actions on the organisation
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional and personal credibility and integrity
- Team player
- Able both to lead and to support others to achieve objectives
- Calm and resolute under pressure
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
- Evidence of experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
- Experience of supporting the annual financial planning and budget setting process
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
Desirable
- Acute Sector experience
- Experience of procurement
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
- Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
- Experience of staff management
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of NHS planning and reporting processes
- Able to create and develop spreadsheets
- Able to apply appropriate costing methodologies in accordance with best practice
- Ability to contribute to the understanding of financial information of CBUs and the Trust
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Good interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills
- Ability to develop innovative problem-solving approaches and to work to demanding timescales
- Detailed knowledge of General Ledger systems and reporting tools. Able to handle large quantities of data and evaluate complex financial problems
- Good report writing skills
Desirable
- Application of change management tools and techniques
- Programming or software knowledge working with highly complex systems and a variety of information sources
- Ability to handle complex budgets and manage change
- Have experience of supporting the production of financials for business cases
- Ability to make judgements, assess and quantify risk and determine the impact of decisions and actions on the organisation
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional and personal credibility and integrity
- Team player
- Able both to lead and to support others to achieve objectives
- Calm and resolute under pressure
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
