Job summary
Do you feel you are ready for a new challenge in your career? This is an exciting opportunity to join a strong Finance Team in a newly created role.
We require a Deputy Chief Finance Officer who can support us in building on our strengths and continuing the development of the ICB finance function. The Deputy Chief Finance Officer (System Finance, Planning, Capital and Estates) is a key leadership role within the ICB and wider health and care system.
The Deputy Chief Finance Officer will play a key role in developing and delivering the financial strategy, setting the financial plans of the ICB and wider system and being a key finance contact for our stakeholders across BLMK.
You will provide support to the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in the delivery of strategic financial planning advice to the ICB and System as well as providing support to the CFO in their role as executive lead for System Estates and Capital.
Main duties of the job
You will support the Chief Finance Officer to ensure the Integrated Care Board (ICB) meets its core financial targets.
A key purpose of this role is to assist in ensuring long term financial sustainability and value for money by improving productivity, supporting service transformation and leading the further development of robust long term financial planning models and assurance mechanisms within the ICB and wider system, supporting and enabling strong financial oversight.
The role will act as the lead Finance Place Link for the BLMK Places - supporting the co-ordination of ICB financial support and reporting to Places through the implementation of the BLMK ICB Target Operating Model.
This post will work alongside the Chief Finance Officer and the Deputy Chief Finance Officer (Operational) to deliver the objectives of the ICB Finance Team.
About us
The Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes (ICB) is responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of the Integrated Care System (ICS), namely: to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money; and help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
Within this context, as the ICB develops as a statutory organisation, a significant challenge will be to determine how it effectively supports and enables place-based and local partnerships to take necessary action that will improve population health outcomes and reduce inequalities.
The organisation is committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.
BLMK ICB are an ambitious organisation with a well-deserved reputation for caring about their staff. A full range of development opportunities are available, and the health and well-being offer to all staff is wide reaching.
We are supportive of a range of agile working arrangements and welcome applications from candidates who might need support to ensure a healthy work/life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full duties and responsibilities of the role please download a copy of the job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full duties and responsibilities of the role please download a copy of the job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- CCAB or CIMA Qualified Accountant with evidence of professional membership and significant, senior level, post qualification experience
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Can demonstrate experience of working in a challenging financial environment and effective financial planning
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
Desirable
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Extensive knowledge of finance and information systems and use of business intelligence to support decisions making
Knowledge
Essential
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge
- Commercial expertise
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
Desirable
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Person Specification
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- CCAB or CIMA Qualified Accountant with evidence of professional membership and significant, senior level, post qualification experience
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Can demonstrate experience of working in a challenging financial environment and effective financial planning
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
Desirable
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Extensive knowledge of finance and information systems and use of business intelligence to support decisions making
Knowledge
Essential
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge
- Commercial expertise
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
Desirable
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
