Principal Finance Manager

Health Jobs UK; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Principal Finance Manager to lead financial management within NHS Wales. The role requires a qualified CCAB Accountant with extensive knowledge in financial and capital accounting. Key responsibilities include managing financial processes, providing timely information for capital expenditures, and ensuring compliance with the NHS financial regime. Candidates should possess strong analytical and communication skills, as well as the ability to work independently. This position offers a chance to work within a dynamic and supportive team environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Agile working approach

Qualifications

• Significant demonstrable experience and specialist knowledge in financial & capital accounting.
• Proven ability to prepare financial accounts in line with legal requirements.
• Experience providing financial training to non-financial managers.

Responsibilities

• Manage NWSSP financial and capital accounting functions.
• Provide timely financial information regarding capital expenditure.
• Lead financial planning for NWSSP wide IMTP.

Skills

Excellent Analytical and Numerical Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work under own initiative

Advanced IT skills, especially MS Excel

Education

Fully Qualified CCAB Accountant

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development Training

Tools

Oracle FMS

Financial Ledger

Fixed Asset Register

Job description

Principal Finance Manager: Financial Accounts, Capital, Planning & Quality

Are you an ambitious qualified accountant who is looking to develop their career in NHS Wales? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NWSSP Finance Team in the role of Principal Finance Manager. Based in our HQ in Nantgarw, Cardiff, the role will provide you with a wide range of experience in financial management across NWSSP. The role requires a hard working, committed individual with financial experience and a good eye for detail who works well as part of a team working to strict deadlines.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

• Key role to manage the NWSSP financial and capital accounting functions and to undertake the link role within these areas with the finance team of our host Velindre University NHS Trust including responsibility for VAT, maintaining the integrity of the fixed asset register, ensuring additions, disposals and asset validations are undertaken correctly.
• Lead role in ensuring the achievement of the NWSSP Capital Expenditure Limit (CEL), providing accurate, timely and reliable financial information to both the Senior Finance Team, Service Directors and Welsh Government regarding capital expenditure including IFRS16 and to take the lead in the overall financial monitoring of the Capital Programme approved by the Senior Leadership Group.
• Undertake a key financial planning role in the production of the NWSSP wide IMTP.
• Key responsibility for co-ordination and monitoring of the finance team IMTP and wider emergency planning for the department.
• Key responsibility for quality across the finance team.

Working for our organisation

At NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership we expect everyone to embrace our values of Listening and Learning, Working Together, Taking Responsibility and Innovating.

Our organisation encourages an agile working approach and we pride ourselves on being a learning organisation motivated by continuous improvement.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values equality, diversity and inclusion, focussing on the wellbeing and belonging of our people.

Excellent customer service is something we strive for, for both our internal and external customers.

Offering a comprehensive benefits package, there is something for everyone. To find out more about working for us, the benefits we offer and guidance on the application process please visit https://nwssp.nhs.wales/working-for-us/

NWSSP work in an agile way where possible, all posts will have a contractual base but as part of agile ways of working that may mean working from home and other locations. We also look at how we balance flexibility with community, and how to manage opportunities to learn from each other.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Fully Qualified CCAB Accountant with full member status and experience of working at a senior management level with post qualification experience
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development Training
• Significant demonstrable experience and specialist knowledge in areas of financial & capital accounting
• Comprehensive understanding of the NHS financial regime including Capital and Planning

Experience

• Proven ability of preparing financial accounts in line with legal requirements and agreed timetables with experience of producing good quality year-end accounts and working papers
• Experience of working in a financial environment in a large complex organisation.
• Experience in producing a wide range of financial and management information, reports and analyses to senior management and executive level teams.
• Experience of providing a good standard of financial training to non-financial managers.
• Experience in complex use of financial ledger and Fixed Asset Register.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in the NHS in a financial accounting/capital role.
• Experience of working with non-financial senior managers.
• Experience of service developments, providing financial advice and support.
• Experience with Oracle FMS & Real Asset Management

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent Analytical and Numerical Skills.
• Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Ability to work on multiple complex tasks, working to tight deadlines.
• Advanced IT skills, including experience in all Microsoft applications, especially MS Excel
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships inside and outside the team to achieve common goals.
• Ability to establish objectives and priorities in a climate of uncertainty.

Desirable criteria

• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Deliver excellent customer service to our internal and external customers, helping us to maintain the customer service excellence standard.
• Ability to travel if required.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification ( PDF , 560.3 KB )
• Swydd ddisgrifiad & Manyleb y person - Cymraeg ( PDF , 552.3 KB )
• Occupational Health Form ( PDF , 728.5 KB )
• NWSSP Recruitment Services Privacy Notice ( PDF , 696.3 KB )
• NWSSP - About Us ( PDF , 6.6 MB )
• NWSSP - Our Benefits 2023 ( PDF , 487.5 KB )
• NWSSP - Buddion ( PDF , 491.0 KB )
• PCGC -Amdanom ( PDF , 6.7 MB )
• Guidance Notes for Applicants April 2024 ( PDF , 278.7 KB )
• IMTP Summary 2024-2027 ( PDF , 13.7 MB )
• IMTP Summary 2024-2027 - Cymraeg ( PDF , 13.7 MB )