Assistant Finance Manager-Corporate Services

Job summary

We are recruiting for an Assistant Finance Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Are you looking to progress and develop your career in a fast paced and supportive working environment? We have an exciting opportunity in our dynamic Financial Management Team.

This is a key role in the finance team supporting Corporate Services at East and North Herts NHS Trust. The Management Accounts team offer a comprehensive financial management service, supporting budget holders to deliver on objectives. We offer a wealth of learning and development to help you achieve your career goals and opportunities to take your career to the next level. We work on a hybrid model with a blend of office based on site, and remote working.

We are committed to career development and offer a flexible and collaborative working environment where your health and wellbeing are valued. We are constantly evolving, improving and encourage innovation.

The Finance Department has recently been awarded "One NHS Towards Excellence Accreditation level 1 " and is working towards level 2.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Finance Manager will provide accurate and timely financial reporting, forecasting, and planning. To meet regularly with budget holders to provide advice on all aspects of financial control.

The post holder will be required to organise personal workloads to meet all relevant financial timetables in the delivery of the financial reporting/management remit as set by the Senior Finance Manager.

The post holder is required to work a significant proportion of their time (more than 80%) using computer applications. The computer applications used include the software packages Excel, Word, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Qlikview and our Trust payroll system ESR.Communication with budget holders, other Finance staff and external customers may be by face-to-face meetings, by meetings on Microsoft Teams, by email, by telephone or by letter as appropriate.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Avnet House

Stevenage

SG1 2EF

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Avnet House

Stevenage

SG1 2EF

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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