Deputy Chief Finance Officer

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Deputy Chief Finance Officer - Governance to support the CFO in strategic and operational development. You will lead Financial Services, deliver statutory duties and ensure strong governance across the Trust.

The role requires senior leadership experience, ability to drive change, and strong stakeholder collaboration to steer the Trust toward financial sustainability and high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership role supporting the CFO in strategic and operational development.
• Delivery of financial governance and assurance across Financial Services and Capital.
• Ability to lead and motivate large teams and build stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead Financial Services ensuring delivery of statutory duties including annual accounts.
• Oversee the financial accounting framework for the Trust, its charity and subsidiaries.
• Provide leadership across the Finance Team and ensure robust control environment and governance procedures.

Job description

East Kent Hospitals is a large and complex NHS Foundation Trust with a substantial financial deficit to be addressed alongside continued improvement required in performance and quality metrics of patient care and services. This critical role will support the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in influencing and driving the strategic and operational development of the Trust. Reporting to the CFO, the Deputy Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in governance role will play a vital leadership role in ensuring we can steer a financially sustainable course in the coming months and years.

The Deputy Chief Finance Officer - Governance will support the CFO in the delivery of financial governance and assurance. The role will include leadership of Financial Services and Capital and will work closely with the Deputy Chief Finance Officer - Performance across the Finance portfolio.

As a senior member of the Finance leadership team, delivery against the Trusts corporate objectives is expected, in particular the Trust's objectives to achieve financial sustainability

The Deputy Chief Finance Officer roles will have a strong track record of delivery, be able to manage multiple projects and drive change. The postholder will be able to lead and motivate teams effectively as well as building strong relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners.

The post holder will work with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer - Performance to provide leadership across the Finance Team

Lead the development of Financial Services ensuring delivery of statutory financial duties including the submission of the annual consolidated accounts and take responsibility for ensuring that a robust control environment is in place and that corporate governance procedures are complied with.

Overseeing the financial accounting framework, ensuring that the financial accounting team provides a full accounting service to the Trust, its charity and subsidiaries. This will require up to date relevant knowledge of accounting standards and NHS accounting practice .

Provide leadership with regards to the Trust's processes that are in place to prepare and monitor the Cash, Financing, Capital and Working Capital Management elements of the annual and longer-term plan.

Providing overall leadership of the Financial Services team, ensuring they are a high performing team by encouraging autonomy, innovation, and best practice in everything they do.

Ensuring the Trust's financial position is reported accurately internally and externally, including meaningful analysis, evaluation and advice, suitable for non-financial stakeholders, to support robust decision making.

Lead the preparation and submission of the Trust's Annual Accounts through to completion and sign off by External Audit and the Trust Board.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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East Kent Hospitals is a large and complex NHS Foundation Trust with a substantial financial deficit to be addressed alongside continued improvement required in performance and quality metrics of patient care and services. This critical role will support the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in influencing and driving the strategic and operational development of the Trust. Reporting to the CFO, the Deputy Chief Finance Officer - Governance role will play a vital leadership role in ensuring we can steer a financially sustainable course in the coming months and years.