Finance Manager (Grade E)

NHS; Steeton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare services provider based in Steeton seeks an experienced finance manager to join their small team. This role involves providing financial insights to aid decision-making, supervising junior staff, and requires a degree with a professional accountancy qualification. Strong Excel skills and leadership experience are essential. The position offers flexible working arrangements with an emphasis on collaboration within the finance team.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Professional accountancy qualifications equal to graduate diploma level.
• Good experience of managing contracts and staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial management information to decision makers.
• Supervise, motivate, and develop junior finance staff.
• Support operational managers with financial advice.

Skills

Management accounting

Leadership

Customer responsiveness

Commercial awareness

Advanced Excel

Education

Degree level education

Professional accountancy qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Oracle ledger systems

Computerised ledger packages

Job description

Incorporated in March 2018, AGH Solutions Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. The company provides a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance to capital projects, sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, for clients within and beyond the NHS.

Based at Airedale General Hospital, due to growth driven by the exciting new hospital, which is being built on site, we have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced individual to work in our small and dynamic finance team in the role of finance manager. The team has a hybrid and flexible working policy whereby you would work from the office at least two days each week.

Main duties of the job

The role is very much hands-on, and you will be on the front line with operational managers, giving advice and support to decision makers for the services. Reporting to the senior finance manager you will play a key role ensuring the management team receive accurate and timely financial management information, including graphical diagrams and tabular information, to enable informed and timely decision making. You will also be required to supervise, motivate and develop junior members of the finance team.

The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level and hold a professional accountancy qualification equal to graduate or diploma level (level 6) or equivalent and have a good knowledge of accountancy. They will be computer literate with experience of using IT based financial systems, Microsoft Office, possess good written and verbal skills, and be methodical with an attention to detail.

If you are ready for a new challenge and want to be part of the team, we would love to hear from you.

About us

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically

Job responsibilities

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Professional accountancy qualifications equal to graduate diploma level (level 6), or equivalent experience.

Experience/Knowledge

• Previous experience of working within a management accounts role.
• Knowledge of managing large and complex contracts.
• Experience of managing staff, with the ability to lead and motivate.
• Leads others in commercial awareness and customer responsiveness.
• Good experience of computerised ledger packages, and their application and development.
• Must be computer literate with experience of Microsoft office (or similar) and advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Good working knowledge of Oracle ledger systems and Financial Reporting.
• Knowledge of NHS funding flows.

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.