Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance, Band 8b

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Finance Lead for Digital and CITS, providing strategic financial insight and analysis at senior leadership level. This will include co-ordinating budgeting, forecasting, project accounting and management of contracts.

To be point of contact for all Finance related matters relating to the IM&T Department (GHFT) and Countywide Information Technology Service (CITS)

To ensure Digital budget holders are secure in their knowledge of their budgets, processes, current status and to provide expertise and support when issues arise

Work closely with the CDIO, programme directors, service leads, corporate services, the Senior Project Accountant (Capital), Head of Corporate Finance and the Finance Leadership Team, in providing a comprehensive digital finance business partnering service, resolving complex and potentially contentious issues

To instigate and adopt change to improve finance processes, from Digital grass roots through to Corporate Services Reporting, for both project and BAU activities

Finance lead for the Digital FSP programme

Provide comprehensive financial advice to business case development/programme teams in line with the guidance set out, as well as providing relevant and specific technical advice regarding discounted cashflows and NPV (for example).

Please see the attached JD and Person Specification document for the the full list of main responsibilities and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully Qualified Accountancy Qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ACA)
• Masters Degree or Equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification experience
• Experience of working at a Senior Management level
• Significant experience in providing comprehensive financial advice to business case development/programme teams in line with the guidance set out, as well as providing relevant and specific technical advice regarding discounted cashflows and NPV
• NHS Experience
• Experience in leading FSP/CIP programmes from a finance perspective
• A good technical working knowledge of the NHS financial regime
• Experience in staff management
• Significant experience in effectively dealing with conflicting priorities for self and teams and proven ability to work effectively on own initiative
• Experience of demonstrating strong credible, professional leadership skills including the provision of clear direction and training
• Demonstrable experience of building highly effective collaborative relationships with a wide range of senior stakeholders within an organisation and with external bodies

Desirable

• Awareness of Project Management methods, such as PRINCE

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to work at different levels (high level overview to detailed) to provide effective challenge and inputs to budgeting, forecasting and reporting activity
• Ability to explain financial issues to non-financial teams/individuals
• Problem solving, logical trouble-shooting and analytical skills
• Ability to sustain periods of close concentration
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
• Financial Modelling

Desirable

• Visual Basic / Macros

Knowledge

Essential

• Working knowledge of current financial standards
• Managing conflicting priorities
• Ability to manage own workload and prioritise
• Knowledge of NHS financial management

Desirable

• Knowledge of Digital Strategy and Transformation

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to use own initiative
• Team player
• Able to cope under pressure
• Able to work independently
• Flexible to suit the needs of service

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cheltenham General Hospital

Sandford Road

Cheltenham

GL53 7AN

Employer's website

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)