Finance Business Partner – Strategic Investment
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
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People-focused
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Respect
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Integrity
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Dedication
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Excellence
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Job overview
Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity until 13th March 2026
The Financial Strategy team at NNUH is responsible for the development of sustainable financial plans, strategic capital planning, and monitoring of performance against the Trust’s financial strategy. The Finance Business Partner – Strategic Investment is an essential part of the team, helping to support and advise on all financial matters.
In our fast-paced environment, we focus on evidence-based planning to support informed decision making to drive improvement of operational efficiency.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the Trust’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Dedication, Integrity and Excellence.
Interview date - 12th March 2025
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
Main duties of the job
As part of a small team, the Finance Business Partner for Strategic Investment will ensure that all capital matters are dealt with promptly and in accordance with all relevant guidance and statutory obligations. The post holder will also advise on highly complex issues and provide corporate reports/strategic financial and business planning advice.The post holder will assist and support the Chief Finance Officer and the Finance Senior Management Team in the provision of an efficient and pro-active strategic finance function.
Provide financial and management information to the Divisions and Corporate departments relating to all aspects of the capital programme, including attending monthly meetings with scheme leads where required to ensure both accuracy and understanding of the financial information issued.
Provide accurate and reliable information to facilitate the timely submission of NHS financial returns for the Trust as a whole.
Provide expert financial advice and support to the Divisions and Corporate departments in relation to capital including leases. Be integrated within the project teams where required as Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial guidance and advice.
Management of the Trust’s business case process, including review of relevant meeting agendas, ensuring that the Trust’s business case tracker is kept up to date and that all business cases follow the correct governance process.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute.We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
- Provide financial and management information to the Divisions and Corporate departments relating to all aspects of the capital programme, including attending monthly meetings with scheme leads where required to ensure both accuracy and understanding of the financial information issued.
- Provide accurate and reliable information to facilitate the timely submission of NHS financial returns for the Trust as a whole.
- Provide expert financial advice and support to the Divisions and Corporate departments in relation to capital including leases. Be integrated within the project teams where required as Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial guidance and advice.
- Produce timely and accurate month end reporting for the Trust’s capital programme and variance analysis, and ensure variances are investigated thoroughly in order to provide the Deputy Director of Finance for Financial Strategy and Planning with comprehensive information to allow the budgetary position to be effectively managed and understood.
- Ensure all accounting records, systems and files are accurately maintained.
- Responsible for introducing, adapting, and improving systems in areas of responsibility and influence, for use by others.
- Attend project meetings when required to present the financial performance of the Trust’s capital programme, and to contribute more widely to the business of the Trust, Division or Directorate.
- Develop, implement and update financial policies and procedures and contributes to the broadening of financial awareness within the capital programme and across the Trust.
- Manage staff, as necessary, ensuring workload is appropriately balanced, that staff are adequately trained to perform their duties, that work is reviewed in order to ensure deadlines are met and high-quality standards are maintained.
- Undertake performance review and appraisal of staff as necessary.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Full Professional Accountancy Qualification - membership of a CCAB professional body with extensive post-graduate experience and extensive experience in management role
Experience
Essential criteria- Superior knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Experience of capital budgetary control processes and methodologies
- Experience in developing business cases of varying investment sizes
Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to prioritise/work to tight timescales
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria- Self-development (assertiveness, dealing with conflict, influencing people, negotiating, management skills)
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The Job Description, which includes a Person Specification, provides a full outline of responsibilities and requirements for this role. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how you meet the person specification.
Visa and Immigration
If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job.
Travelling to work
Staff parking is available onsite; however, this is limited during core working hours. We have more capacity in the evening and at weekends and can usually provide spaces during those hours.
We look to allocate these spaces fairly. Our Travel Office have a set of criteria that staff must meet in order to qualify. If you qualify for a space, you may be placed on a waiting list if we are at full capacity.
The NNUH is served by a number of public buses, and we offer generously discounted monthly passes with First Bus & Konect.
The Costessey Park and Ride runs regularly each day from 06:30 (from P&R) to 20:45 (from NNUH) and this service is free for NHS staff. There is a regular Thickthorn P&R service as well which is free. Applications to the Travel Office are required for this service.We also have a discounted service from the airport P&R if you purchase a bundle. Please see Konect website for further details.
The NNUH host multiple bicycle racks and a salary sacrifice scheme. We also benefit from a Beryl station onsite.
If you work at another Trust site, please discuss travel and parking arrangements at interview.
DBS
If this post involves working with children or adults the application form will ask for information regarding previous convictions as you will be required to undertake a Criminal Record and Barring Check known as a DBS check.
If you are a new employee or registering with the Staff Bank you will need to meet the cost of this unless your salary is less than point 9 of Afc
NHS Service
Should you be appointed to the post we will need to establish any previous NHS service via the ESR IAT and we will accept the submission of your application as your agreement to this.
UK Registration
You will need to have current UK professional registration where this is a requirement of the role.
Application
Following candidate feedback and to reduce our dependency on paper, all our communication with you regarding your application will be by email so could you please check your e-mails (and Spam) regularly.
We value equality in our team and recruit from all sections of the community. We recognise there is a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and if you meet the minimum criteria detailed in the person specification and have a disability, you may wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme by indicating this in the relevant section on your application.
We look forward to receiving your application and if you do not hear within the next four weeks this will usually mean that you have not been short-listed. However, if you wish to confirm this please contact the person indicated on the advert.
Flexibility
Whilst every effort will be made to recruit to the post as it is advertised, there may be occasions where we consider alternative working patterns, such as part time working, or contract types, such as secondments, depending on circumstances.Should you wish to work in a different working pattern to that stated in our advertisement, please indicate this in the supporting statement to your application.
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