Director of Financial Planning and Reporting

NHS; London; Hybrid; GBP 113,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in London is seeking a Director of Financial Planning and Reporting. This pivotal role involves strategic leadership, oversight of financial planning, reporting, and ensuring clinical teams deliver effective financial performance. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in finance leadership within complex organizations, excellent financial modelling skills, and the ability to influence key stakeholders. This hybrid role requires leadership to enhance performance while promoting equity and diversity within the organization.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with significant strategic financial leadership experience.
• Experience in performance management and leading teams through change.
• Advanced financial modelling and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business planning process and performance management for the organisation.
• Deliver monthly reporting on financial position to the Trust Board.
• Lead the Continuous Improvement Finance Team for departmental initiatives.

Skills

Analytical ability

Strategic financial planning

Stakeholder management

Financial modelling

Change management

Education

Masters degree in financial or business discipline

Membership of CCAB body

Doctorate or equivalent in business related discipline

Tools

Business Intelligence software

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Director of Financial Planning and Reporting

A fantastic opportunity to work in a high profile role with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the leading teaching hospitals in the country.

The Director of Financial Planning & Reporting will have responsibility for a broad and exciting remit covering Annual Planning, Reporting, Finance Continuous Improvement, Corporate Business Partnering and Productivity. This role is crucial to enabling clinical teams to perform effectively and to ensure divisions are delivering their financial plans.

The post holder will work closely with the Deputy CFO to provide leadership and direction to improve the financial performance of the Trust and deliver on the finance department's improvement programme.

This role requires an inclusive and encouraging leader who will ensure the Trust's equality and diversity ethos and values are applied and promoted. You will be a qualified accountant with significant experience of strategic financial leadership in a complex organisation.

You will have excellent financial modelling skills, sound financial judgement, be comfortable at quickly developing and implementing solutions to highly complex problems, and experience in persuading and influencing key stakeholders.

If you are interested in applying please contact recruitment partner Nicola Brooks at I&E Professionals. All applications will be submitted through I&E professionals and not via NHS Jobs.

This is a hybrid role with an expectation of 2 days in the office, based at St Mary's Hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the business planning process for the organisation working closely with the strategic leads within the Trust as well as the income team and financial services ensuring plans are consistent, deliverable and meet overall trust, sector and national planning parameters.
• Supporting the CFO and Deputy CFO to ensure that divisional teams are effectively performance managing directorates and ensuring divisions are delivering their financial plans.
• Leading the monthly reporting process for the Trust delivering clear reports on the financial position to Trust Board, internal and external stakeholders. This will include ensuring the team is structured and ready to deliver on short notice submissions, Board papers and Trust Committee papers.
• To lead the Continuous Improvement Finance Team that will deliver on a range of initiatives on behalf of the whole department.
• Work closely with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer to provide leadership and direction to improve the financial performance of the Trust.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviewsplease view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications & training

• Membership of CCAB body
• Masters degree in financial or business discipline
• Doctorate or equivalent in business related discipline

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant strategic finance leadership
• Business case appraisal
• Significant experience working with senior management
• Experience of leading and managing a team including setting objectives, performance management and leading a team through change.
• Experience in delivering change Specific experience of designing and implementing financial reporting solutions and analytics to meet user needs
• Experience of analysing and understanding highly complex problems, arriving at solutions and being able to implement them and or persuade others to adapt and implement them
• Experience of using financial analysis to inform and drive major transformation programmes
• Experience of leading and managing change across teams
• Developing, leading and managing high performing teams, developing staff competencies and behaviours including managing difficult conversations
• Working with board and executive leadership teams

Skills & Abilities

• Advanced analytical ability Strategic financial planning
• Specific capabilities in financial modelling, database modelling, root cause analysis, and knowledge of Business Intelligence software
• Advanced business case appraisal Advanced knowledge of public sector finance and government accounting frameworks
• Advanced keyboard skills, powerpoint and excel
• Complex stakeholder management.
• Contribute to professional sphere by contributing articles to institute publications.

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.

£113,557 to £129,443 a yearper annum inclusive