Senior Finance Business Partner

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for ensuring that there are effective monitoring and reporting processes in place for controlling the companys income and expenditure. Information needs to be presented in a format appropriate to the intended audience, e.g. service managers, the Executive Team and the Board.

The post holder will also provide wider business support to the Executive Team and Service Managers in the costing and pricing of existing and new services, and in the preparation of tenders for new healthcare contracts.

The post holder will ensure that effective procurement processes are in place across the company to achieve the optimum balance of economy and efficiency in the goods and services received by FCHC.

The post holder will be required to ensure that effective contract monitoring processes are in place for healthcare contracts held by the company, ensuring that we meet our contractual obligations and achieve our financial targets.

The post holder will also support corporate business development through the identification of publicly advertised business opportunities and the co-ordination of responses to these and other formal tender processes.

Critical to the position are strong interpersonal skills, and effective communication both verbal and written. The ability to lead a small team to achieve department and business finance demands is fundamental as is understanding protocol when interacting with management together with maintaining a high degree of sensitivity and confidentiality.

The ability to plan and prioritise workloads to meet deadlines is fundamental so too is effective time management of workflow to meet deadlines. The ability to work without Management direction, use initiative and possess a positive attitude towards teamwork.

Please see document 'Job Decription and Person Specification' for more detail.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Expert knowledge of management accounting disciplines and budgetary control principles
• Strong knowledge of conducting or contributing to efficiency reviews
• Experience of setting up and managing programmes or projects
• Evidence of post qualification and continuing professional development
• Costing and Procurement experience
• Strong working knowledge of other Microsoft Office/Products with intermediate keyboard skills

Desirable

• NHS Finance and NHS Benchmarking

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification analytical financial management experience.
• Strong ability to provide advice and support from all accounting disciplines.
• Successful experience of managing teams including leading financial management teams.
• Experience of producing financial monitoring reports for Senior Management/Directors for large and complex organisations.
• Previously involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes in Public and Private Sectors.
• Experience of directly managing and developing a team.
• Exposure to commercial operations in public or private sector.
• Experience of benchmarking or equivalent and strong data analytics skills.
• Contract monitoring experience.
• Proven record of improving business processes, productivity, efficiency and adding value.

Qualifications

Essential

• CCAB Qualified or CIMA accountant and an active member of an accounting professional body.
• Expert knowledge gained through specialist training or experience.
• Evidence of maintaining and developing technical accounting expertise and of staying up to date with current accounting rules since qualification.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Manages team within the constraints of the strategic plan.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
• Used to working in a busy environment
• Flexible and adaptable team player with the ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Commitment to continuing professional development

Skills

Essential

• Strong computerised accounting and reporting skills including cloud-based accounting systems.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to present financial information in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong verbal and inter-personal skills to facilitate constructive discussion with service managers.
• Strong leadership qualities and influencing skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team, making positive contributions while recognising the position of others.
• Strong organisation and planning skills with the ability to formulate and adjust plans to reflect changing circumstances.
• Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning.
• Effective time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.

Desirable

• Project management.
• Ability to negotiate with external parties and reach mutually acceptable positions.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

First Community Health and Care

Address

Consort House

5-7 Queensway

Redhill

Surrey

RH1 1YB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.firstcommunityhealthcare.co.uk/

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