Deputy Finance Manager - Pathology Business Unit

Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Greater London is seeking a Deputy Finance Manager to provide business partnering support for Pathology financial management. This role includes preparing month-end reports and financial forecasts, supporting annual financial planning, and ensuring accurate cost reporting on capital projects. Candidates must hold a master's qualification and be pursuing a CCAB accountancy qualification, with significant experience in a financial role essential. Strong communication skills are critical for this position.

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Progress towards a CCAB accountancy qualification is required.
• Significant experience in a financial management role.

Responsibilities

• Provide business partnering support to Pathology.
• Review month-end positions and complete forecasts.
• Prepare financial reports in consultation with stakeholders.

Skills

Strong oral and written communication skills

Ability to provide professional advice

Variance analysis

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Education

Masters level qualification or equivalent experience

CCAB accountancy qualification in progress

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and a specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. In 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services.

We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long‑term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other health and voluntary sector organisations.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world‑leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and a high quality of teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience, as well as safe, high‑quality care.

Our 23,500 staff are key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care.

We have an ambitious capital investment programme and a keen focus on innovation.

Job overview

In conjunction with the Deputy Head of Finance and Commercial, the Deputy Finance Manager is the first port of call for all Pathology financial management queries, including preparing month‑end reports and forecasts, developing business plans and presenting these to stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

The Deputy Finance Manager provides business partnering support to Pathology in all their monthly, annual and ad hoc financial performance and planning activities. They are responsible for reviewing the month‑end positions, completing monthly forecasts and consolidating a directorate monthly performance report, in consultation with stakeholders and the Deputy Head of Finance and Commercial, and presenting these at various meetings. They will support the annual financial planning process and undertake costings of service developments and savings plans.

Working for our organisation

Pathology Services are provided by Synnovis, a partnership between Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and SYNLAB UK and Ireland.

The PBU

The Pathology Programme is substantial; transforming Pathology services across both Trusts as well as the Integrated Care System (ICS) to standardise the Target Operating Model and improve service levels for all of our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Deputy Finance Manager will be a business partner to Pathology acting as the first port of call for all Pathology financial management queries.

Key responsibilities

• Provide expert finance business partnering support to Pathology in all regular and ad hoc financial management and business planning activities.
• Take responsibility for designing & preparing the monthly finance reports and forecasts for Pathology, including discussing these with relevant stakeholders across the department.
• Support the Senior Finance Manager in the annual financial planning processes for Pathology, taking responsibility for preparing accurate financial plans based on the directorate's strategies.
• Support the financial management of Pathology's ongoing capital projects, ensuring that relevant costs are reflected accurately and promptly in capital accounts and preparing projections of future spend, in conjunction with the Capital Finance Team.
• Demonstrate confidence in communicating with staff at all levels and across all professional disciplines, and explain complex financial information to both finance and non‑finance staff in a meaningful way.
• Liaise with colleagues at Synnovis, King's College Hospital, as well as across South East London hospitals to ensure accurate reporting of pathology expenditure and provision of activity information to both internal and external stakeholders.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of regular professional and personal development training
• Substantial progress towards a CCAB accountancy qualification, with full qualification being actively pursued.

Desirable criteria

• Fully CCAB Qualified

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working in an accounting department of which considerable experience has been in a specialist financial management role.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both non‑finance and finance staff.
• Be able to provide, or obtain from other sources, professional advice and support from across all of the accounting disciplines.
• The Deputy Finance Manager must be able to set and negotiate priorities for themselves and others, and subsequently programme workload, to achieve results and meet deadlines.
• Understand and be able to apply the concepts and techniques for variance analysis, financial reporting, budgeting, accruals.

Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual's personal circumstances and the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on‑boarding process.

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• Job Description (PDF, 328.4KB)
• FRF (PDF, 376.6KB)