Finance Business Partner

NHS Blood and Transplant; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Manchester is seeking a Qualified Accountant to provide financial advice and support to senior managers. Key responsibilities include financial planning, reporting on financial performance, and supporting business cases. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in financial management within a large organization, along with proficiency in business software. This role contributes to the core purpose of saving and improving lives through effective financial management.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of financial management within a large, multi-disciplined organisation.
• Experience of supporting the development of business cases using investment appraisal techniques.
• Knowledge of NHS finance policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial planning support to senior management.
• Act as a challenging partner delivering strong performance management.
• Report on financial performance and advise on progress against plans.

Skills

Financial management

Business software proficiency

Project accounting

Communication

Education

Qualified Accountant with post-qualification experience

Tools

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint)

Job description

You will be joining NHSBT at a particularly exciting time, as we continue our journey of significant change, in delivering our business unit strategies. We want you to be part of this. Your role will be crucial in delivering our strategies by supporting our customers.

You will be responsible for providing financial advice, direction, and support to both financial and non-financial senior managers, and their management teams and you will act as a challenging sparring partner balancing effective business partner support with appropriate challenge, delivering strong performance management against agreed targets for your function, working to strict and challenging deadlines.

You will work with a variety of enthusiastic and motivated multidisciplinary teams across the UK who are united in our core purpose of saving and improving patients lives and knowing that you have contributed to this will be one of your greatest rewards. You will continuously review your engagement within existing frameworks, processes, and systems, seeking to identify more effective and efficient systems for the management of the organisations financial resources.

Critical to this role will be the ability to demonstrate business acumen in pursuit of strategic objectives, delivered in a challenging environment.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be to providing financial planning support to the senior management of a specific function / sub-function within NHSBT. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Supporting the following key business processes: Budget Build, Financial Reporting/Forecasting, ABC/M Costing and Projects Financial Management.
2. Acting as a challenging sparring partner balancing effective business partner support with appropriate challenge, delivering strong performance management against agreed targets for the function / sub-function.
3. Providing advice, direction, and support to senior managers / management teams within NHSBT on financial matters.
4. Demonstrating business acumen in pursuit of the function / sub-function(s) strategic objectives, in a challenging environment.
5. Reporting on financial performance advising on progress against plans, identifying the reasons for variations against plan and recommending remedial action(s) where necessary.
6. Providing financial input and general support / advice to the development of business cases / investment appraisal decisions, as well as the accurate tracking of (multiple) project delivery costs and financial benefits, attending project team meetings as appropriate.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with post-qualification experience. In exceptional circumstances qualification by relevant experience is acceptable
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD)

Experience

• Significant experience of financial management within a large, multi-disciplined organisation
• Experience of supporting the development of business cases utilising investment appraisal techniques and of project accounting support
• Advanced user of recognised business software packages
• Experience of using an integrated financial / general ledger system and of working with costing software tools
• Knowledge and understanding of the general NHS environment and NHS finance policies
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint and other recognised business software packages