Deputy Finance Manager

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are seeking a Deputy Finance Manager to support an assigned Division or Corporate Directorate, providing proactive financial support to the relevant Divisional or Directorate Management teams, advising on all aspects of financial management.

If successful, you will liaise with budget holders, including directors of services, department Heads of Service, and management on a regular basis. You will support the Finance Manager in the provision of a complete, professional service to the Division or Corporate Directorates, delivering a customer focused service to the budget holders of the highest possible standard whilst maintaining adherence to the Trust monthly reporting and annual planning timetables.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply today.

Main duties of the job

The aim of the role is to act as Deputy to the Finance Manager for Division or Corporate Directorate assigned to support, providing proactive financial support to the relevant Divisional or Directorate Management teams, advising on all aspects of financial management.

You will liaise with budget holders, including directors of services, department Heads of service, and management on a regular basis. You will support the Finance Manager in the provision of a complete, professional financial service to the Division or Corporate Directorates, delivering a customer focused service to the budget holders of the highest possible standard whilst maintaining adherence to the Trust monthly reporting and annual planning timetables.

You will support the Finance Manager and Senior Finance Business Partner in the setting of the annual Divisional, Corporate Directorate and wider care group budgets and will be responsible for ensuring that rigorous financial control is implemented and controlled across the Corporate areas for income, expenditure, CIPS and WTEs.

To assist in providing direct financial support to the assigned directorates ensuring full compliance with financial best practice, specifically in relation to:

• Budget setting and reporting
• Forecasting of expenditure, activity and income
• Maximisation of income
• Delivery of Improvement Program Savings
• Finance processes

About us

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job responsibilities

For full details of this fantastic opportunity, please see attached job description.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Studying towards a CCAB qualification
• Graduate or equivalent
• Full CCAB qualification. Equivalent experience will be taken into account where extensive experience can be demonstrated

Knowledge and Experience

• Significant work experience in a Finance role
• Expert user of financial systems - particularly E-Financial and Excel
• Understanding of current NHS structures and policies
• Highly numerate and analytical with good report writing skills
• Accuracy with attention to detail and good analytical skills
• Experience of managing staff
• Advanced Excel skills
• Ability to prioritise workload of junior team members

Communication Skills

• Ability to convey complex finance data to non-financial managers
• Experience of writing comprehensive reports
• Ability to influence and persuade upwards

Personal and People Development

• Ability to motivate, supervise and train staff
• Ability to Deputise for the Finance Manager
• Adaptable and Flexible

Physical Requirements

• Ability to spend long periods of time sitting at a desk inputting at a keyboard on a regular basis, reading data on screens, or attending meetings

Other

• Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities
• Actively seeks to develop services to meet challenges of a changing environment
• Ability to travel between sites when required

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.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)