Assistant Finance Business Partner

Job summary

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner/Finance Business Partner in delivering comprehensive financial management support to either a Clinical Division or Corporate Directorates.

The role will be an integral part of the Finance Team providing a reliable and responsive financial management service to ensure the provision of high quality financial advice and information to a variety of staff both within and outside of the Trust, and at different levels.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the Directorate Team advising on a wide range of financial issues.

Business and financial planning

To support the development and monitoring annual budgets for the agreed areas of responsibility.

To support the identification of Cost Improvement Plans for agreed areas of responsibility

To provide financial and performance support to the development of Service Development and Business Plans for agreed areas of responsibility

Play a key role in the Directorate's business planning process, supporting the Finance Business Partner/Senior Finance Business Partner in providing advice, guidance and challenge.

Prepare financial assessments of business plans. This will include the impact on efficiency, capacity, asset utilisation and activity.

Financial and capacity modelling of the impact of changes in costs and activity relating to business plans.

Develop a detailed understanding of key cost drivers and cost behaviour.

Providing information and financial assessment to support reference costs submission and development of PLICs for Directorates.

To communicate with all levels of staff both within the Finance Department and the wider Trust.

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.