Senior Finance/Business Analyst

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.

About us

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. a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
3. 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?

Job 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

• Member of CCAB Accounting Body i.e. Qualified Accountant.
• Continuous management and personal development including understanding of NHS structure, services and change agenda.
• In depth knowledge of finance, planning and performance within the health sector.
• Thorough understanding of role and purpose of the organisation.
• Understanding of Welsh Government and NHS organisations principles and standards of governance, policies, strategies and plans.
• 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.
• Self-motivated, able to work on own initiative, able to organise own workload and keep to deadlines.
• Previous experience of working in the NHS or public sector.
• Ability to speak Welsh.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel across Wales and wider where appropriate.

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.