Assistant Finance Manager - Costing

Job overview

The Assistant Finance Manager - Costing is a key member of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust's costing team with a focus on the following areas:

Undertaking the costing of services including National Cost Collection returns, patient level costing (PLICS) submissions and Service Line Reporting.

Producing timely and accurate management information which requires both technical knowledge of accounting procedures and an understanding of the business of the Trust.

Providing costing and financial information for internal and external purposes.

You will:

• Produce patient level costing (PLICS) data.
• ProduceTrust mandatory national cost collection returns.
• Liaise with Clinical Informatics, IT system administrators and Clinical Departments to obtain and understand data to be used in the production of costing, service line reporting and other returns.
• Work with Clinicians and managers in the Trust to understand how services are delivered and reflect this in costing and reporting systems.
• Deputise for the Project Accountant as required.

• Developing and preparing high quality costing information to support the annual costing returns cycle, the development of Patient Level Costing (PLICS), value based healthcare, benchmarking and service improvements.
• Submitting costing returns to tight deadlines and in accordance with costing guidance.
• Responsible for the administration of the costing system and to be integral to developments, including the incorporation of new data sources.
• Managing an end to end process of developing cost methodologies and reporting cost data, where there is no precedent.
• Develop areas of expertise and act as a point of contact.
• Proactively work to continuously improve current costing methodologies with internal and external stakeholders. Identifying potential costing developments to enhance the quality and accuracy of the information.
• Handle large volumes of cost data from a multitude of sources and be responsible for converting into meaningful intelligence and clear messages for internal and external use.
• Be an expert in costing intelligence and data analytics (including Power BI and SQL), developing analytical tools to assist in data interrogation and presentation of data both internally and externally.
• Work in a customer focused manner with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including finance colleagues, service managers and clinicians to provide costing advice on complex costing data and queries.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person specification

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs including Maths & English
• Actively studying toward AAT qualification or equivalent

• Studying towards CCAB qualification

Knowledge

• Experienced in Financial Systems / Excel
• Experience of working autonomously without reference with manager
• Substantial experience in a finance role

• Experienced to advanced level in use of Financial Systems / Excel
• Experience of manipulating large data sets
• Experience of SQL or equivalent
• Experience of working with SLR / knowledge of NCC

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]

For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.

In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.

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