Finance Manager - Income and Performance

Job summary

You will be responsible for accurately monitoring, forecasting and planning income levels for the Trust and will play a key role in the annual contracting process.

Provision of a systems administration service for the National Tariff Payment System monitoring systems (CIVICA) to ensureall day-to-day operations of the systems are completed to agreed time scales.

Expert on the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) and be responsible for interpreting and implementing all aspects of NTPS policy and fully quantifying the impact of these changes on the Trust's income base, for both short and medium-term plans.

Lead and develop the strategic information and income reporting processes required by the Finance Department & Trust.

Main duties of the job

Manage month end closedown routines ensuring the financial ledger and CIVICA are reconciled to appropriate data interfaces.

Provide expert specialist advice on the implications of NTPS to Senior Finance and Non-Finance Managers and Clinicians.

Work with other senior finance colleagues to ensure that the annual budget setting process is robust; links effectively to the annual operating plan process and produces a budget which achieves financial and other targets.

Ensure data quality concerns raised externally are addressed by the Trust Data Quality Group and help to identify and disseminate best practice in data quality across the team and the organisation.

Liaise with Informatics teams to ensure the Trust demonstrates it is recording activity in line with NTPS guidelines and that the implications of current and forecast activity and finance trends are understood.

To ensure daily, monthly and annual system routines and reports are scheduled, reconciled and completed to timetable, therefore maintaining effective utilization of system resources, as well as minimizing the effect on user response times.

To ensure that complete and accurate procedures are provided, in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions and Audit requirements, for the administration of all system applications.

Please see attached Job Description and person Specification for full details of role and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk