Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance, Band 8b

NHS; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a Digital Finance Business Partner. This leadership role involves providing financial insights, managing budgets, and leading the corporate finance team in a dynamic environment. The successful candidate will enhance career potential in a motivated finance team and influence departmental direction.

Qualifications

• Experience of working at a Senior Management level.
• Significant experience in providing financial advice to business case development.
• NHS Experience and good technical knowledge of NHS financial regime.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial performance and sustainability for the Digital Directorate.
• Provide strategic insights and manage budgeting and forecasting activities.
• Line manage one member of staff.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Advanced Microsoft Office skills

Education

Fully Qualified Accountancy Qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ACA)

Masters Degree or Equivalent

Tools

Visual Basic / Macros

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance, Band 8b

The closing date is 10 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join GHFT's finance team as Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance.

You will be an experienced, dynamic and driven finance professional coming into a key leadership role in the corporate finance team, with the ability to work independently as well as working productively with the Digital leadership and senior management team and with finance colleagues across the department . You will play a key role in driving the financial performance and financial sustainability of this high-profile area in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The Digital Finance Business Partner and Corporate Assurance provides business partnering support to the Digital Directorate in all their monthly, annual and ad hocfinancial performance and planning activities.

They are responsible for reviewing the monthly financial position as well as for the completion of monthly forecasts and consolidation of a monthly performance report, in consultation with the Directorate Managers and the Head of Corporate Finance. The post holder will present thee findings at the Directorate and Finance oversight meetings. They will lead the Directorate's annual financial planning process and undertake costings of service developments and savings plans.

The post holder will line manage one member of staff.

About us

We are a highly-motivated finance team offering an environment to further develop your experience and enhance your future career potential. This is an exciting time for the finance team and an opportunity for the successful candidate to influence the direction and ethos of the department.

The role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, and we offer flexible working.

Job responsibilities

Main

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Finance Lead for Digital and CITS, providing strategic financial insight and analysis at senior leadership level. This will include co-ordinating budgeting, forecasting, project accounting and management of contracts.

To be point of contact for all Finance related matters relating to the IM&T Department (GHFT) and Countywide Information Technology Service (CITS)

To ensure Digital budget holders are secure in their knowledge of their budgets, processes, current status and to provide expertise and support when issues arise

Work closely with the CDIO, programme directors, service leads, corporate services, the Senior Project Accountant (Capital), Head of Corporate Finance and the Finance Leadership Team, in providing a comprehensive digital finance business partnering service, resolving complex and potentially contentious issues

To instigate and adopt change to improve finance processes, from Digital grass roots through to Corporate Services Reporting, for both project and BAU activities

Finance lead for the Digital FSP programme

Provide comprehensive financial advice to business case development/programme teams in line with the guidance set out, as well as providing relevant and specific technical advice regarding discounted cashflows and NPV (for example).

Please see the attached JD and Person Specification document for the the full list of main responsibilities and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Fully Qualified Accountancy Qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ACA)
• Masters Degree or Equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development

Experience

• Experience of working at a Senior Management level
• Significant experience in providing comprehensive financial advice to business case development/programme teams in line with the guidance set out, as well as providing relevant and specific technical advice regarding discounted cashflows and NPV
• NHS Experience
• Experience in leading FSP/CIP programmes from a finance perspective
• A good technical working knowledge of the NHS financial regime
• Experience in staff management
• Significant experience in effectively dealing with conflicting priorities for self and teams and proven ability to work effectively on own initiative
• Experience of demonstrating strong credible, professional leadership skills including the provision of clear direction and training
• Demonstrable experience of building highly effective collaborative relationships with a wide range of senior stakeholders within an organisation and with external bodies
• Awareness of Project Management methods, such as PRINCE

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to work at different levels (high level overview to detailed) to provide effective challenge and inputs to budgeting, forecasting and reporting activity
• Ability to explain financial issues to non-financial teams/individuals
• Problem solving, logical trouble-shooting and analytical skills
• Ability to sustain periods of close concentration
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
• Visual Basic / Macros

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of current financial standards
• Managing conflicting priorities
• Ability to manage own workload and prioritise
• Knowledge of NHS financial management
• Knowledge of Digital Strategy and Transformation

Personal Attributes

• Ability to use own initiative
• Team player
• Able to cope under pressure
• Able to work independently
• Flexible to suit the needs of service

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.

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£62,215 to £72,293 a year(pro rata if part time)