Head of Finance - Corporate | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - ref. t9017115

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated qualified accountant to lead the finance team of the Corporate, Operational Services, Estates and Education divisions at Oxford University Hospitals.

To succeed in this role, you will be a self-motivated, proactive individual with excellent communication, leadership and influencing skills, and have a proven track record of delivery.

The role will also involve managing the divisional finance team and driving improvement and development within the team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated finance professional to contribute to driving improvement, supporting the Trust in achieving its goals, and ensuring the financial sustainability of services.

The Head of Finance – Corporate is a senior leadership role responsible for delivering comprehensive financial management across the Trust’s Corporate, Operational Services (OS), Estates, and Education divisions. The role provides strategic financial leadership, ensuring the effective management of income, expenditure, workforce, and activity in alignment with performance targets.

Key responsibilities include preparing accurate financial reports, leading on the month-end process, and supporting divisional management teams in evaluating business cases for change. The role also ensures compliance with Trust financial policies while developing financial awareness among non-finance managers.

The post holder will lead the budgeting process, ensuring annual budgets are agreed and implemented, and will monitor financial performance, identifying corrective actions as necessary to achieve divisional targets. A critical focus will be on delivering efficiencies and supporting cost improvement plans to maintain the Trust’s long-term financial viability.

In addition to overseeing the management accounting team, the role ensures robust financial systems and processes are in place to deliver timely, accurate reporting.

Finally, the Head of Finance – Corporate supports strategic initiatives such as elective care recovery and operational targets, driving improvements while fostering a culture of financial sustainability and shared learning across the Trust.

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Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

The Finance department at OUH is a team focused on improving financial information and helping senior stakeholders and clinical teams understand the narrative behind the numbers. We are working to embed a learning culture, encouraging staff at all levels to both undergo training and deliver training to others.

Main purpose of the role:To work as amemberof theFinanceSeniorManagementteamindelivering acomprehensivefinancialservicetotheTrust, toprovidefinancialmanagementsupportto theTrust's Corporate,OS, Estates & Education Divisionsand Executive Directors,andto take the leadin delivering certain ofthecoreactivitiesoftheFinanceDirectorate

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025