Senior Finance/Business Analyst

Job Overview

This is a senior role for a qualified Accountant to provide professional financial advice and produce robust and effective financial analysis and intelligence, identifying key headline messages. The post will support delivery of the department's objectives, specifically the development of sustainable value and benefits realisation metrics along with better integration of financial and performance reporting.

The role will also be instrumental in supporting the department's transformation work as detailed in the HEIW Finance Strategy that will enable the function to adapt to technological change whilst continuing to provide high quality and accurate information for internal and external stakeholders.

Main Duties of the Job

The post holder will be a key member of the Finance team and will lead a range of strategic finance programmes and projects, researching, developing and adopting best practice and innovative strategies designed to deliver programme and project objectives.

This post is Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months due to the needs of service. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.

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

Working for Our Organisation

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

1. Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
2. Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
3. Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What You Can Expect

1. a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
2. compassionate leadership,
3. a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
4. the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

1. Member of CCAB Accounting Body i.e. Qualified Accountant.
2. Continuous management and personal development including understanding of NHS structure, services and change agenda.
3. In depth knowledge of finance, planning and performance within the health sector.
4. Thorough understanding of role and purpose of the organisation.
5. Understanding of Welsh Government and NHS organisations principles and standards of governance, policies, strategies and plans.
6. Knowledge of data visualisation techniques and understanding of business intelligence packages. Experience of using data visualisation to enable the transformation of data into meaningful business intelligence, helping the user identify patterns and trends.
7. Self-motivated, able to work on own initiative, able to organise own workload and keep to deadlines.

Desirable Criteria

1. Postgraduate management or finance qualification.
2. Previous experience of working in the NHS or public sector.
3. Ability to speak Welsh.

Additional Requirements

1. Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
2. Self-motivated, able to work on own initiative, able to organise own workload and keep to deadlines.

Desirable Criteria

1. Ability to travel across Wales and wider where appropriate.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

It is essential that your application demonstrates how you meet the job description / person specification for this post.

We are committed to promoting inclusion at HEIW and we welcome applications from everybody recognising the value that diversity brings to our workforce. To work in the UK, candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (ROI) nationals require sponsorship via a Skilled Worker Visa, unless they have permission to work via another route. Please note that HEIW does not currently hold a licence to appoint skilled workers from overseas by sponsoring them to work in the UK. If successful, candidates from outside of the UK or ROI would be responsible for obtaining their own sponsorship or visa to enable them to work for HEIW.

Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges

Applicant Requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Welsh language skills are desirable.

Documents to Download

• English ( PDF , 408.4 KB )
• Senior Finance/Business Analyst Band 8a ( PDF , 512.3 KB )
• OH form ( PDF , 648.5 KB )
• NWSSP Recruitment Services Privacy Notice ( PDF , 696.3 KB )
• Guidance Notes for Applicants April 2024 ( PDF , 278.7 KB )