Senior Finance Business partner

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Senior Finance Business partner, Rainham

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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3

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

·Coordinates the processes of annual budget setting and routine financial reporting to agreed timescales.

·Uses detailed knowledge of SFIs and Standing Orders (SOs) to provide accurate and timely financial support, information and advice in a user-friendly manner for budgetary control, contract pricing, financial planning and efficiency savings programmes/Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs).

·Monitors and forecasts income, activity and expenditure trends/budgetary performance on a monthly basis, identifying issues for budget holders and advising them appropriately.

·Identifies threats to financial viability and agrees corrective action plans with the relevant managers when required.

·Ensures that the links between cost drivers and expenditure are understood, that all activity is captured and the cost recovered and advises improvements in order to deliver a balanced financial position.

·Provides a monthly schedule of progress against cost improvement and/or savings plans.

·Ensures all changes in services or developments are identified and that the resource implications are quantified and the financial consequences addressed.

·Takes financial responsibility in the competitive tendering process, assessing lower value bids and taking into account financial as well as quality and patient outcome issues when advising on decisions.

Main duties of the job

·Assists NHS managers by providing financial information and advice to support the development of annual business plans.

·Proposes development to financial procedures, systems and processes within the management accounting function in order to increase efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction and in order to comply with statutory and internal requirements.

·Supports the completion of statutory/internal monitoring financial returns in accordance with the timescales and collects data/evidence for audit purposes.

·Prepares financial option appraisal requests/recommendations for revenue items for presentation to the exec.

·Tracks income reports to ensure monies from all sources are received and accurately recorded.

·Identifies and challenges the status quo within own area of responsibility, finding new and more efficient ways of working within the organisation, advising on the economic, efficient and effective use of resources, eliminating waste and adding value for money where necessary.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·Sets medium and long-term goals with the team, in line with the goals of finance and with the organisation.

·Clearly defines individual and team roles, responsibilities and standards of output.

·Manages performance throughout the team, holding regular one to ones and appraisals and dealing effectively with significant performance issues.

·Trusts others to make decisions and backs their judgement.

·Uses a range of management styles to suit the needs of a particular situation.

·Communicates and celebrates success within, across and outside the team.

·Recognises and uses effectively the different skills and styles of people within the team.

·Initiates and promotes team building activities.

·Raises morale in difficult circumstances and on an ongoing basis.

·Promotes “work-life balance” practices to ensure a healthy team.

·Effectively recruits new people.

·Takes their own development seriously, proactively seeking development opportunities.

·Works with people to identify current and career based development needs and to produce, resource and monitor the delivery of long term personal development plans.

·Finds the time to coach others in a manner suited to their learning style.

·Manages the team to ensure that appropriate resources are deployed effectively and efficiently.

·May need to manage remote teams, using appropriate techniques to monitor work and to motivate staff.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

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• Qualified or equivalent experience
• Experience in line managing staff

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• Significant experience working in public sector finance at a senior level. Experience of Financial Management gained in an NHS/public sector setting
• Experience in preparing monitoring and reviewing budgets

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• Experience in developing, managing and co-ordinating the work and systems needed to financially manage a large annual budget
• Experience of implementing change in financial systems, processes and procedures

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.