Finance Business Partner

Health Jobs UK; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare employer in London is seeking a qualified CCAB Accountant to manage financial operations at a senior level. The ideal candidate will have significant NHS financial management experience and the ability to present complex financial data to top-level executives. This role demands excellent communication, leadership, and technical accounting skills, ensuring transformative financial management across the organization.

Benefits

Living Wage Employer

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Qualifications

• Significant financial management experience at a senior level.
• Experience with NHS Financial Regime & Policies.
• Ability to use financial ledgers & reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage and present complex financial information to senior management.
• Lead finance discussions at executive level meetings.
• Identify opportunities for change and manage the change process.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong report writing skills

Advanced Excel skills

Financial analysis and forecasting

Complex financial modelling skills

Change management skills

Strong technical accounting knowledge

Leadership skills

Education

Qualified CCAB Accountant

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Detailed job description and main 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 documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

GOSH Culture and Values

• Consolidated GOSH values

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

• Qualified CCAB Accountant.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience/Knowledge

• Significant financial management experience at a senior level.
• Significant post qualification experience
• Staff management experience including recruitment, selection, objective setting, appraisals and managing performance.
• Effective team leadership
• Presentation of highly complex financial and non-financial information.
• Inspiring confidence & developing highly effective working relationships with finance, clinical and non-finance colleagues, including those at a senior level.
• Successful challenge of information and assumptions
• Presentation of financial information and leading financial discussions at senior management and executive level meetings.
• Identifying opportunities for change and successful management of the change process.
• Use of financial ledgers & reporting tools
• NHS Financial Regime & Policies
• Awareness of current NHS priorities
• Principles of service line reporting & patient level costing

Desirable criteria

• Significant financial management experience in the NHS
• Experience of NHS research finance
• Supporting managers and clinicians in the use of service line reporting & patient level cost information
• Use of SoECAT
• Business Objectives

Skills/Abilities

• Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Strong report writing skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Strong technical accounting knowledge
  • Advanced excel skills
  • Financial analysis and forecasting
  • Complex financial modelling skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and plan / prioritise workload
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Self-motivated
  • Proactive & innovative approach to problem solving
  • Change management skills
  • Persuasion & influencing skills
  • Professional
  • Corporate awareness
  • Excellent team leader

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description ( PDF , 481.5 KB )
• Diversity and Inclusion ( PDF , 166.5 KB )
• Staff Benefits Leaflet ( PDF , 85.5 KB )