Finance Digital Business Partner and Corporate Assurance - Cheltenham
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join GHFT's finance team as Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance.
You will be an experienced, dynamic and driven finance professional coming into a key leadership role in the corporate finance team, with the ability to work independently, but also the ability to work well with finance colleagues at all levels, and with the key digital leads.You will play a key role in driving the financial performance and financial sustainability of this high-profile area in the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance provides business partnering support to the Digital Directorate in all their monthly, annual and ad hoc financial performance and planning activities.
They are responsible for reviewing the month end financial position, the
completion of monthly forecasts and consolidation of a monthly performance report, in consultation with the Directorate Managers and the Head of Corporate Finance, and presenting these at Directorate and Finance oversight meetings. They will lead on their Directorate's annual financial planning process and undertake costings of service developments and savings plans.
Working for our organisation
We are a highly-motivated finance team offering an environment to further develop your experience and enhance your future career potential. This is an exciting time for the finance team and an opportunity for the successful candidate to influence the direction and ethos of the department.
The role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, and we offer flexible working.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Finance Lead for Digital and CITS, providing strategic financial insight and analysis at senior leadership level. This will include co-ordinating budgeting, forecasting, project accounting and management of contracts.- To be point of contact for all Finance related matters relating to the IM&T Department (GHFT) and Countywide Information Technology Service (CITS)
- To ensure Digital budget holders are secure in their knowledge of their budgets, processes, current status and to provide expertise and support when issues arise
- Work closely with the CDIO, programme directors, service leads, corporate services, the Senior Project Accountant (Capital), Head of Corporate Finance and the Finance Leadership Team, in providing a comprehensive digital finance business partnering service, resolving complex and potentially contentious issues
- To instigate and adopt change to improve finance processes, from Digital grass roots through to Corporate Services Reporting, for both project and BAU activities
- Finance lead for the Digital FSP programme
- Provide comprehensive financial advice to business case development/programme teams in line with the guidance set out, as well as providing relevant and specific technical advice regarding discounted cashflows and NPV (for example).
Please see the attached JD and Person Specification document for the the full list of main responsibilities and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Fully Qualified Accountancy Qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ACA)
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant post qualification experience
- Experience of working at a Senior Management level
- Significant experience in providing comprehensive financial advice to business case development/programme teams in line with the guidance set out, as well as providing relevant and specific technical advice regarding discounted cashflows and NPV
- NHS Experience
- Experience in leading FSP/CIP programmes from a finance perspective
- A good technical working knowledge of the NHS financial regime
- Experience in staff management
- Significant experience in effectively dealing with conflicting priorities for self and teams and proven ability to work effectively on own initiative
- Experience of demonstrating strong credible, professional leadership skills including the provision of clear direction and training
- Demonstrable experience of building highly effective collaborative relationships with a wide range of senior stakeholders within an organisation and with external bodies
- Effective management of conflicting demands to broker ‘best fit’ results
- Awareness of Project Management methods, such as PRINCE
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Ability to work at different levels (high level overview to detailed) to provide effective challenge and inputs to budgeting, forecasting and reporting activity
- Ability to explain financial issues to non-financial teams/individuals
- Negotiating skills
- Problem solving, logical trouble-shooting and analytical skills
- Ability to sustain periods of close concentration
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
- Excellent ability to use new IT systems quickly
- Financial Modelling
- Visual Basic / Macros
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Financial CPD kept up to date
- Working knowledge of current financial standards
- Managing conflicting priorities
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise
- Knowledge of NHS financial management
- Knowledge of Digital Strategy and Transformation
Aptitudes
Essential criteria- Ability to use own initiative
- Willingness to undertake further training and keep up to date with technical advances
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary.Please contact [email protected] for further information.
The Trust is a safeguarding employer committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is committed to safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults, and any appointment will be subject to satisfactory clearance.As part of the organisation's commitment to Safer Recruitment, candidates may request copies of relevant policies and procedures by contacting the Recruitment Team at [email protected]
Committed to supporting service personnel
As part of our commitment to support Service Personnel, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with the Career Transition Partnership, offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for all qualifying Service and Ex-Service Personnel.To qualify for a guaranteed interview, candidates must meet the essential criteria for the post and be either a current member of the Armed Forces, or be within the two year period of resettlement. If this applies to you please email the job reference number and your AR number to the Recruitment Team at [email protected]
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