Job summary
Are you an aspirant Finance Business Partner? Are you looking for a role that will enable you to stretch your financial, collaborative and communication skills to improve the delivery and sustainability of health care services within Broomfield Hospital and the wider Mid and South Essex system, while having appropriate support and development? If the answer to the above is yes, then this is the role for you!
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are seeking a Finance Manager to manage the provision of finance and business support to local services within Broomfield hospital, including Accident and Emergency Care, inpatient, Burns, Plastics and Dermatology Services as part of a wider a multi-sited Foundation Trust. This new role has been developed to enable you to develop int the role and take a step towards developing into a full Finance Business Partner in the future. The role will enable you to expand your management, and service support skills, while providing clear strategic financial leadership, delivering robust operational and financial management and improving cost effectiveness within the local services you will be supporting.
Main duties of the job
The role involves investigating and analysing complex technical issues to offer advice and support to senior management, ensuring compliance with statutory regulations. Strong persuasion and negotiation skills are vital for presenting contentious information to large groups. Managing teams and fostering staff development while liaising with external senior staff is required.
Tasks include preparing annual revenue budgets, ensuring alignment with financial budgets, and obtaining approval from relevant managers and directors. Persuasion and negotiation skills are crucial for addressing managers' financial expectations. Providing financial support and regular reports to groups and meetings, while facilitating effective communication channels, is essential.
Additionally, we aim to collaborate on developing and implementing a robust personal development plan to foster growth through training, coaching, and support, facilitating progression toward becoming a future finance business partner.
About us
With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we are positioned to expand our reach and impact in delivering health services to local communities. Our goal is to provide outstanding local and specialist services, enhancing patient health and wellbeing while fostering a dynamic environment for staff development, innovation, and career advancement.
Patients will benefit from improved care quality, reduced delays, and increased access to once-in-a-lifetime specialist care across the region. Our expanded trust size creates more opportunities for development, research, networking, and innovation.
We aim to maximise our collective skills and experiences to achieve excellence. Operating as one organisation, we attract top talent and retain specialist staff via increased employment opportunities.
As a supportive finance function, we prioritise development and growth of our staff for both present and future needs. As part of our strategy to achieve Level 3 accreditation as a One NHS Finance trust, we have developed an inclusive Talent Management Strategy. This strategy fosters a supportive team culture, aimed at bringing out the best in our finance team. We are committed to supporting and developing your skills, bringing your Personal Development Plan to life through coaching, training, and exposure opportunities. These initiatives will contribute to the sustainable development of our corporate support services but also prepare you for future roles as Finance Business Partners.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details on this role.
You will be required to travel across the MSE site base, while being principally based out of Broomfield Hospital.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details on this role.
You will be required to travel across the MSE site base, while being principally based out of Broomfield Hospital.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Person Specification
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Staff management experience and ability to manage and motivate a team of staff
- Actively pursues personal development and contributes to the development of others
- Ability to work without supervision and set own agenda. Highly motivated and enthusiastic
Qualifications
Essential
- Part way through CCAB qualification with aim of completion. Equivalent experience will be taken into account.
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Full CCAB qualification. Equivalent experience will be taken into account
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 4 years relevant accountancy experience
- Financial management accountancy experience
- Highly developed IT skills across the Microsoft Office suite
- Understanding and ongoing development of complex spreadsheet and modelling tools
- Costing services and business case planning
Desirable
- NHS finance in an acute hospital experience is highly desirable
- Use of e-financials financial ledger
- Managing, development and recruiting staff
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to liaise with and communicate with staff at all levels, and from a variety of disciplines within the Trust and from outside, in both oral and written forms
- Routinely provide advice to both finance and non-finance professionals on complex and technical finance and accounting issues
- Presentation skills for delivery of training and education on NHS financial management and budget management
- Presentation and interpretation of complex data, to Board level and non-financial senior managers
Physical Requirements
Essential
- The jobholder will be expected to spend long periods of time sitting at a desk inputting at a keyboard on a regular basis, reading data on screens, or attending meetings.
Other
Essential
- Evaluates quality of own and others work and suggest improvements as appropriate
- Actively seeks to develop services to meet challenges of a changing environment
- Ability to prioritise own and staff workload and to work to tight deadlines
- High/advanced level of computer literacy in packages such as: MS Excel MS Word MS PowerPoint
Person Specification
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Staff management experience and ability to manage and motivate a team of staff
- Actively pursues personal development and contributes to the development of others
- Ability to work without supervision and set own agenda. Highly motivated and enthusiastic
Qualifications
Essential
- Part way through CCAB qualification with aim of completion. Equivalent experience will be taken into account.
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Full CCAB qualification. Equivalent experience will be taken into account
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 4 years relevant accountancy experience
- Financial management accountancy experience
- Highly developed IT skills across the Microsoft Office suite
- Understanding and ongoing development of complex spreadsheet and modelling tools
- Costing services and business case planning
Desirable
- NHS finance in an acute hospital experience is highly desirable
- Use of e-financials financial ledger
- Managing, development and recruiting staff
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to liaise with and communicate with staff at all levels, and from a variety of disciplines within the Trust and from outside, in both oral and written forms
- Routinely provide advice to both finance and non-finance professionals on complex and technical finance and accounting issues
- Presentation skills for delivery of training and education on NHS financial management and budget management
- Presentation and interpretation of complex data, to Board level and non-financial senior managers
Physical Requirements
Essential
- The jobholder will be expected to spend long periods of time sitting at a desk inputting at a keyboard on a regular basis, reading data on screens, or attending meetings.
Other
Essential
- Evaluates quality of own and others work and suggest improvements as appropriate
- Actively seeks to develop services to meet challenges of a changing environment
- Ability to prioritise own and staff workload and to work to tight deadlines
- High/advanced level of computer literacy in packages such as: MS Excel MS Word MS PowerPoint
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
