Job summary
At the NHS Business Services Authority we're seeking talented senior finance business partners to support our growing portfolio of services that we deliver for the NHS.
If you are CCAB qualified, have highly developed financial management experience with strong partnering and influencing skills, and you're passionate about making a positive difference in the NHS, then this could be the job for you!
We offer hybrid working in an environment that encourages a healthy work-life balance, along with a raft of benefits including a great pension, car lease scheme, flexible working, CPD opportunities and more.
These are permanent, senior Financial roles where you will report into the Head of Service and work closely with members of our senior leadership team. You'll be responsible for managing a team of finance business partners and accountants.
We're committed to personal and professional development to support your career.
We're looking forward to reading your application!
What do weoffer:
- 27 days leave (increasing with length of service) plus 8 bank holidays
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working
- Career development
- Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
- Excellent pension
- NHS Car lease scheme
- A wide range of benefits and high street discounts
Main duties of the job
Medium Term Financial Planning/Business Planning
- Lead development of a medium term financial plan and financial aspects of Spending Reviews
- Setting activity, income and expenditure budgets
- Provide support to achieve savings targets
- Regular reporting
- Maintain relationships with funders
NHSBSA Finance Strategy
- Develop a coherent Finance Strategy; lead on alternative funding models
Business Partnering
- Line manage finance business partners
- Lead the provision of an excellent business partnering service
- Provide high quality financial advice
- Work with Head of Financial Strategy, NHSBSA senior leaders and external stakeholders
- Collaborate with the Financial Management Team
- Provide assurance of service costing system
Business Case/Project evaluation
- Provide financial expertise/advice to assure capital and revenue business cases
- Contribute to Project Review Boards
- Lead the financial aspects of benefits realisation
- Support major strategic transformation initiatives
- Oversee the work of the financial accountants
- Work collaboratively with the Project Management Office
- Design and deliver Financial Management training
Leadership and Management
- Provide and model leadership to the team
- To ensure best practise learning
- Cultivate the service as a centre of excellence
Governance
- Apply all Information Governance policies
- Interpret and implement financial legislation, accounting standards and DHSC/NHS specific policies
- Authorised signatory
About us
At the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) we deliver a range of essential national services to NHS organisations and contractors, patients and the public.
You may already be using some of our services. Do you have a prescription pre-payment certificate? Perhaps you found this vacancy through NHS Jobs? We're behind these, and much more.
Being one of the UK's Best Big Companies to work for, our values are to be Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We CARE about what we do and support each other in achieving our objectives.
Our people are the heart of our organisation. We strive to ensure they feel trusted, valued and empowered. We're passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. With wellbeing and inclusion central to our ethos, our BAME, Disability and Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, Armed Forces and Women's networks help our colleagues to be their authentic selves at work.
At the NHSBSA we value and respect the diversity of our colleagues and are committed to being a flexible employer. We are proud to offer flexible working opportunities. Whether you're interested in hybrid working, working from home, flexible hours or job sharing, apply today and we can discuss available options with you at the interview stage.
We are the NHS delivering for the NHS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you are accountable for:
Financial Planning / Business Planning
- Develop medium term financial plan
- Annual budget cycle
- Income and expenditure budgets
- Savings targets underpinned with deliverable solutions
- Regular reports
- Negotiate with and influence funders
- Build relationships across health family
Finance Strategy
- Finance Strategy to support overall NHSBSA Strategy
Business Partnering
- Line manage finance business partners
- Deliver excellent, collaborative business partnering service
- Seek feedback to make improvements
- Provide high quality financial advice
- Ensure compliance with delegated limits
- Partnership work with senior internal and external stakeholders including DHSC / NHSE
- Service costing
Business Case / Project evaluation
- Assure business cases for revenue and capital schemes
- Coach financial accountants in business cases
- Contribute to Project Review Boards
- Provide financial insight on highly complex issues
- Lead financial benefits realisation
- Support major strategic transformation initiatives
- Project cost reporting
- Deliver Financial Management training
Leadership
- Provide leadership to Business Partners and Finance department
- Recruitment, appraisal, training, and performance review
- Cultivate services provided as a centre of excellence
- Demonstrate a culture of collaboration and partnership
- CPD
Governance
- Comply with Information Governance
- Interpret / implement financial legislation, accounting standards and DHSC/NHS specific policies
- Ensure all finance functions have appropriate procedures in place
- Work with internal Audit
- Promote and lead financial awareness across the NHSBSA
- Authorised signatory
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you are accountable for:
Financial Planning / Business Planning
- Develop medium term financial plan
- Annual budget cycle
- Income and expenditure budgets
- Savings targets underpinned with deliverable solutions
- Regular reports
- Negotiate with and influence funders
- Build relationships across health family
Finance Strategy
- Finance Strategy to support overall NHSBSA Strategy
Business Partnering
- Line manage finance business partners
- Deliver excellent, collaborative business partnering service
- Seek feedback to make improvements
- Provide high quality financial advice
- Ensure compliance with delegated limits
- Partnership work with senior internal and external stakeholders including DHSC / NHSE
- Service costing
Business Case / Project evaluation
- Assure business cases for revenue and capital schemes
- Coach financial accountants in business cases
- Contribute to Project Review Boards
- Provide financial insight on highly complex issues
- Lead financial benefits realisation
- Support major strategic transformation initiatives
- Project cost reporting
- Deliver Financial Management training
Leadership
- Provide leadership to Business Partners and Finance department
- Recruitment, appraisal, training, and performance review
- Cultivate services provided as a centre of excellence
- Demonstrate a culture of collaboration and partnership
- CPD
Governance
- Comply with Information Governance
- Interpret / implement financial legislation, accounting standards and DHSC/NHS specific policies
- Ensure all finance functions have appropriate procedures in place
- Work with internal Audit
- Promote and lead financial awareness across the NHSBSA
- Authorised signatory
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified CCAB Professional Accountancy Qualification
Desirable
- Degree
- Project Management Qualification
Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to work as a strategic partner, developing financial solutions to meet business needs
- Strong motivational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and will plan work of team
- Excellent communication skills, building and maintaining good working relationships with directors, managers and staff
- Ability to coach and mentor colleagues
- Develop and deliver complex financial presentation to large groups of senior staff
- Well-developed judgmental and analytical skills in relation to differing systems solutions
- Develop policy and procedures that impact across whole organisation
- Strategic influencing skills
- Diplomacy, assertiveness, proactivity
- Ability to persuade directors and senior managers of course of action
- Enquiring mind that is used to problem solving
- Confident
- Empathy
- Commitment to CPD
- Advanced knowledge of best practice in financial management and decision support
- Integrated Corporate Financial Systems and specialist financial reporting and query packages
- Detailed knowledge of applicable international accounting standards
- In depth knowledge of financial and accountancy procedures, NHS Finance and financial management
Desirable
- Knowledge of Integra Financials
- Detailed understanding of NHS and Central Government finance regime
- Project evaluation techniques
- Corporate Governance framework and controls
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in relevant financial and management
- Position, working in a customer focused environment advising on financial strategy and policy and dealing with complex financial issues
- Experience of managing a customer focused management accounting team
- Production of board level reports
- Significant experience of leading a team providing a financial management service
- Experience of developing a management accounting service and delivering service improvements
- Production of detailed financial business cases
- Leading the annual revenue and capital budget setting process
- Experience of integrated finance systems
Desirable
- Relevant NHS or public sector experience
- Project management experience
- Financial modelling
- Experience of strategic partnerships
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified CCAB Professional Accountancy Qualification
Desirable
- Degree
- Project Management Qualification
Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to work as a strategic partner, developing financial solutions to meet business needs
- Strong motivational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and will plan work of team
- Excellent communication skills, building and maintaining good working relationships with directors, managers and staff
- Ability to coach and mentor colleagues
- Develop and deliver complex financial presentation to large groups of senior staff
- Well-developed judgmental and analytical skills in relation to differing systems solutions
- Develop policy and procedures that impact across whole organisation
- Strategic influencing skills
- Diplomacy, assertiveness, proactivity
- Ability to persuade directors and senior managers of course of action
- Enquiring mind that is used to problem solving
- Confident
- Empathy
- Commitment to CPD
- Advanced knowledge of best practice in financial management and decision support
- Integrated Corporate Financial Systems and specialist financial reporting and query packages
- Detailed knowledge of applicable international accounting standards
- In depth knowledge of financial and accountancy procedures, NHS Finance and financial management
Desirable
- Knowledge of Integra Financials
- Detailed understanding of NHS and Central Government finance regime
- Project evaluation techniques
- Corporate Governance framework and controls
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in relevant financial and management
- Position, working in a customer focused environment advising on financial strategy and policy and dealing with complex financial issues
- Experience of managing a customer focused management accounting team
- Production of board level reports
- Significant experience of leading a team providing a financial management service
- Experience of developing a management accounting service and delivering service improvements
- Production of detailed financial business cases
- Leading the annual revenue and capital budget setting process
- Experience of integrated finance systems
Desirable
- Relevant NHS or public sector experience
- Project management experience
- Financial modelling
- Experience of strategic partnerships
Additional information
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).
