Head of Financial Services

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to lead Financial Services at a leading Mental Health NHS Trust in London. The role involves managing financial operations, ensuring best value for money, and enhancing team efficiency through automation and robust financial strategies. Join a dynamic team committed to improving patient care and delivering outstanding mental health services.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development opportunities

Variety of benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in NHS financial operations required.
• Strong leadership and management skills needed.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines in a dual site operation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations of financial services teams.
• Ensure high quality financial services and value for money.
• Deliver operational financial objectives and monitor performance.

Skills

Technical accountancy

I.T literacy

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Education

CCAB qualified accountant

Job description

An exciting new opportunity has arisen at South West London & St George’s Mental Health Trust for an experienced Head of Financial Services looking to enhance their career.

Financial Services is a sub team within the Finance & Procurement Department and consists of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Capital Accounting, Financial Accounts, Payroll and Pensions, Charitable Funds Financial Administration, Finance Systems, Treasury Management & Cashiers.

The finance team are looking to enhance how it operates, working smarter, more efficiently and effectively, minimising manual tasks. We are committed to embedding automation in the way we do things, so that we can improve our reporting times and concentrate on strengthening our roles to support our operational service managers in the services they deliver, ultimately improving patient care and ensuring we deliver best value for money.

Technical accountancy, I.T literacy and staff management skills are crucial. We are looking for an individual who can bring previous experience and enthusiasm to our established team. You will be a CCAB qualified accountant with previous NHS experience. You will have strong leadership qualities, communication, presentation and analytical skills and experience of dealing with difficult situations in a professional manner along with the ability to meet tight deadlines across a dual site operation.

The post holder will be responsible for the daily operations of the financial services teams to ensure that the Trust receives high quality financial services and achieves best value for money from its financial systems and services. Staff range in experience from trainees to fully CCAB qualified accountants. The Head of Financial Services is responsible to the Deputy Director of Finance for the successful delivery of operational financial objectives through effective and robust financial services, ensuring that the Trust has accurate and sustainable financial plans to achieve key financial performance indicators and monitors performance against these plans.

The post holder will gain a variety of experience including the opportunity to influence change and strengthen financial control at a leading Mental Health provider within the NHS. We are a dynamic team and with the objective of delivering a ‘right first time’ service, with a customer focus. We are fully committed to the Trust’s values of being Respectful, Open, Collaborative, Compassionate and Consistent.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our locations:

Kingston (Tolworth) : Our finance hub is based at Tolworth Hospital in the Borough of Kingston close to a number of shops and with good transport links

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Debbie Hollinghurst Job title: Deputy Finance Director Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 020 3513 6616