Senior Finance Manager

Health Jobs UK; Coventry; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Coventry is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to ensure professional financial management and support business planning. This role includes providing expert advice to directors, producing financial reports, and improving processes. Candidates must be CCAB qualified with experience in financial management. The position offers generous benefits including annual leave, training opportunities, and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts with retailers

Wellbeing support

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• CCAB qualified or equivalent.
• Significant financial management experience.
• Able to meet deadlines and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert financial advice to trust directors.
• Lead production of monthly financial management information.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement.

Skills

Financial management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Project management

Education

CCAB qualified or equivalent

Level 7 or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and hardworking individual to join our finance team as the Senior Finance Manager for Corporate Services. The post holder will ensure a professional, effective, responsive and high profile financial management and costing service provision that supports the Trust's short and long term business planning processes.

Main duties of the job

Working as a business partner the role will provide expert financial advice to trust directors and service managers in the development of service delivery plans and rationalisation proposals; this will incorporate the development of business cases and formulation of cost improvement programme savings plans. This role will have lead responsibility for the production of monthly financial management and costing information, which includes forecasting, detailed analysis of variances from plan, and recommendations on resource control, all of which take place within monthly deadlines.

Qualifications

Applicants must be CCAB qualified or equivalent and committed to personal development. The successful candidate will have knowledge of NHS financial regime and current issues, significant financial management and staff management experience and the ability to meet deadlines and objectives.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of NHS Financial regime and current issues
• Proficient in the use of excel spreadsheets and other Microsoft packages
• Project Management
• Effective presentation, communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to communicate in written and verbal media with all levels of staff communication skills
• Report writing
• Negotiation and influencing skills – able to resolve conflicts

Experience

• Working to and achieving deadlines
• Working accurately under pressure
• Previous experience of delivering training

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

Job description

The role will be responsible for leading the transformation of business processes in the Finance Contracting and Procurement (FCP) function to drive improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, quality and value for money. You will identify opportunities for process improvement using tested methodologies, consult and engage with stakeholders, develop project plans and coordinate activities to deliver projects to deadlines.

Person Specification

Essential Professional Accountancy Qualifications or level 7 equivalent, (e.g. CCAB / CIMA Qualified)

Committed to personal development

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Employer details

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Wayside House

Wilsons Lane

Coventry

CV6 6NY