Finance Business Partner

HCRG Care Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

HCRG Care Group seeks a proactive Finance Business Partner for a 6-month fixed-term role, primarily remote. You will enhance financial performance by providing detailed analysis and reports, engaging with operational teams to drive efficiency. Ideal candidates hold a recognised accounting qualification and have experience in a financial role within healthcare.

Benefits

Group Pension

Flexible benefits like discounts and cashback offers

Access to mental and physical wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Encouraged innovation and idea implementation

Qualifications

• Experience of accounts preparation from TB to final accounts.
• Driving license and access to car preferred.
• NHS/Care sector experience advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support financial performance and deliver high-quality management reports.
• Build relationships with operational teams and provide financial analysis.
• Contribute to contract negotiations and cost reduction initiatives.

Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Financial Analysis

Teamwork

Time Management

Communication

Education

Qualified with recognised accounting qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Proactis

iTrent

Powerpoint

Job description

HCRG Care Group is looking for a proactive and highly skilled Finance Business Partner to join us on a 6-month fixed-term contract.

Reporting directly to the Head of Finance, you will play a key role in supporting and enhancing the financial performance of the Business Unit within the wider national HCRG Care Group. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality management reports and providing timely, insightful analysis to support strategic decision-making and optimise contract performance.

This is a full-time, fixed-term position with the potential to become permanent. The role is primarily remote, with occasional travel as required.

Main Responsibility

Your main responsibilities will include:

• First point of financial contact for operational teams and Heads of Finance. Will need to build strong relationships with key operational contacts in the field.
• Provision of analysis to support understanding of financial and operational performance of the business.
• Preparation of and commentary on financial analysis to support existing major contracts, both income and expenditure, including attendance of contract meetings with customers/suppliers to discuss finances and activity for the following year to support contract negotiations.
• Perform bridge analysis between rolling forecast and Budget (current year or next year), highlighting major areas of financial change from one financial year to the next
• Financial analysis and commentary to support new business opportunities and cost reduction initiatives, including meeting with respective budget holders or service leads to discuss these opportunities and to build up a prospective price (if a new opportunity) or to calculate savings (for cost reduction initiatives) based on these discussions.
• Provide pro-active and reactive financial and commercial analysis to support Head of Finance in driving business performance, optimising revenue, containing, and reducing cost base and managing cash requirements.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis to key stakeholders as required (Group Finance Director, HCRG Care Group Directors and the Senior Leadership Team, Operational Managers).
• Explain financial results and concepts to non-financial staff. Coach and develop non-financial staff to better understand the results within their services.
• Be pivotal in the implementation of the Workforce plans, and performance management of actual workforce spends against budget in each service.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

The Ideal Candidate:

Technical

• Qualified with a recognised accounting qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent) (May consider Part Qualified with evidence of relevant experience).
• Experience of accounts preparation from TB to final accounts
• Advanced Microsoft Excel user
• Fully IT literate, able to adopt new systems with ease.
• Driving license and access to car

Capabilities

• Positive attitude and ability to work in a team.
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure of tight deadlines.
• Ability to work in a dynamic reporting environment and adapt to change.
• Confidence to challenge operational management when appropriate.
• Ability to build strong relationships with site based operational contacts.
• Must be able to clearly explain/interpret complex financial issue to non-financial operational contacts.
• Powerpoint
• Relevant systems experience (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Proactis, iTrent)
• NHS/Care sector experience

Please see the attached job description for a full person specification.

Package Description

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group.

You will feel valued as a Finance Business Partnerwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £45,000.00, plus Group Pension, Fixed Term for 6 months
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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