Assistant Finance Business Partner

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Brockworth; Presencial; GBP 42.000 - 62.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an Assistant Finance Business Partner to deliver timely and accurate financial information, challenge and support to budget holders, and drive cost improvement across services.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will prepare monitoring information, analyse variances, advise executives and service leads, and help train managers in financial processes while supporting the Directorates' budgets and targets.

Formación

• Experience producing financial monitoring information and commentaries.
• Ability to review significant variances and work with managers on corrective action.
• Experience training budget holders in financial processes.

Responsabilidades

• Prepare accurate and timely monitoring information for Deputy Director of Finance and senior managers.
• Provide financial support and challenge to operational management.
• Identify and deliver cost improvement savings with Operations teams.
• Budget liaison with Executives and budget holders; advise on budgets, performance and targets.

Conocimientos

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Variance analysis

Financial modelling

Herramientas

Excel

Descripción del empleo

Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, the role of the Assistant Finance Business Partner is to produce accurate, reliable and timely financial information in order to support managers and budget holders; provide expert financial support and challenge to the operational management team; ensure the provision of timely and accurate financial information and commentaries for internal reporting; monitor and challenge quality and efficiency of operational teams; work with Operations colleagues to identify and deliver cost improvement savings as required by the trust.

Provide high quality information, advice and challenge to budget holders to facilitate appropriate decision making in respect of the organisation's resources. To include reviewing significant variances and working with managers to develop corrective action.

Prepare accurate and timely monitoring information (including commentaries) in order that the Deputy Director of Finance and other senior finance managers can understand and accurately report on the financial position of the trust.

Provides financial support and advice in relation to the identification and delivery of cost improvement plans and monitor their performance in meeting those targets.

Undertake a budget liaison role within the Trust involving close liaison with the appropriate Executives, Service Directors and other budget holders, providing advice and guidance, as required, on all aspects concerning the directorate's budgets, financial performance, and financial targets. To provide financial training to managers and budget holders where appropriate.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Provides financial support and advice in relation to the identification and delivery of cost improvement plans and monitor their performance in meeting those targets.

Undertake a budget liaison role within the Trust involving close liaison with the appropriate Executives, Service Directors and other budget holders, providing advice and guidance, as required, on all aspects concerning the directorate's budgets, financial performance, and financial targets. To provide financial training to managers and budget holders where appropriate.

Provide input and knowledge into ensuring proper control over the budgetary system and liaison with internal and external audit as appropriate.

Ensure the integrity of financial information produced. This will include maintaining a Directorate checklist to ensure that all income and expenditure is accurately accrued at month-end and year-end and accounting and month-end polices are adhered to.

Assist in negotiation of complex financial matters with staff and external contacts.

Responsible for adapting/designing systems/processes to meet the requirements of the operational areas they support

Ensure that sound financial management and budgetary controls operate within the designated operational area. Assist budget holders in interpretation, analysis and investigation of expenditure and income charged against their budgets, and identify and take action on any discrepancies, trends and problems.

Plans financial projects which impact across the designated organisational area and ensures delivery through regular monitoring and joint planning with operational leads responsible.

Advise the Senior Finance Business Partner and the Deputy Director of Finance on an ongoing basis of the financial position of the Service Groups / Directorates, including providing appropriate information and explanations for any significant variances or risks that require highlighting for inclusion in the finance board paper and other reporting returns, both internal and external,

Produce complex financial monitoring information in a way that most usefully represents the information -e.g. graphically, tabular form.

To report on non-financial targets and KPIs, linking to the area's financial performance where appropriate

Monitor and contribute to the annual budget setting exercise liaising with the Senior Finance Business Partner / Deputy Director of Finance with regards to the agreed methodology and process.

Forecast, account for and control directorate income for all relevant customers, particularly ICBs, NHSE, GCC and GHNHSFT.

Responsible for the maintenance and reconciling of financial and activity records relating to the Trust's contracts

To manage and co-ordinate junior staff

To take an active role in developing productive and efficient practice across the Finance department.

Significant leadership experience within a finance department.

Demonstrable teaching and presentation skills.

Ability to prioritise, organize and plan workloads for personal work and other staff ensuring deadlines and targets are achieved

Excellent Excel skills in order to develop spreadsheets, collect and analyse complex data sources in such a way as to facilitate routine updates by any member of the department, and the ability to design and create spreadsheets for non-financial staff.

Development of staff and skills audits, and ensuring mandatory training is completed.

The full qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.