Finance Business Partner

Job summary

You will be joining NHSBT at a particularly exciting time, as we continue our journey of significant change, in delivering our business unit strategies. We want you to be part of this. Your role will be crucial in delivering our strategies by supporting our customers.

You will be responsible for providing financial advice, direction, and support to both financial and non-financial senior managers, and their management teams and you will act as a challenging sparring partner balancing effective business partner support with appropriate challenge, delivering strong performance management against agreed targets for your function, working to strict and challenging deadlines.

You will work with a variety of enthusiastic and motivated multidisciplinary teams across the UK who are united in our core purpose of saving and improving patients lives and knowing that you have contributed to this will be one of your greatest rewards.

You will continuously review your engagement within existing frameworks, processes, and systems, seeking to identify more effective and efficient systems for the management of the organisations financial resources.

Critical to this role will be the ability to demonstrate business acumen in pursuit of Clinical services strategic objectives, delivered in a challenging environment.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be to providing financial planning support to the senior management of a specific function / sub-function within NHSBT. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the following key business processes: Budget Build, Financial Reporting/Forecasting, ABC/M Costing and Projects Financial Management.
• Acting as a challenging sparring partner balancing effective business partner support with appropriate challenge, delivering strong performance management against agreed targets for the function / sub-function.
• Providing advice, direction, and support to senior managers / management teams within NHSBT on financial matters.
• Demonstrating business acumen in pursuit of the function / sub-function(s) strategic objectives, in a challenging environment.
• Reporting on financial performance advising on progress against plans, identifying the reasons for variations against plan and recommending remedial action(s) where necessary.
• Provide financial input and general support / advice to the development of business cases / investment appraisal decisions, as well as the accurate tracking of (multiple) project delivery costs and financial benefits, attending project team meetings as appropriate.

About us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, were incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers. Its an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever