Senior Finance Manager

Health Jobs UK; Hereford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to support transformation and secure financial sustainability across the Surgical Division in Herefordshire.

You will lead the division's management accounts, deliver accurate reporting, forecasting and analysis, and identify efficiencies to maximise value for patients. You will work with operational and clinical leads and report to the Deputy Chief Finance Officer, with agile, hybrid working across Herefordshire sites and home.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified as an Accountant with CCAB or CIMA.
• Commitment and evidence of continuing professional development in line with the post holder's professional accounting body.
• Further specialist finance training and experience related to wider Healthcare finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead on financial responsibility for the Surgical Division and manage the accounting service.
• Ensure accurate reporting, forecasting and analysis across the division.
• Identify opportunities to deliver efficiencies and support transformation programmes.
• Provide financial leadership to complex business cases and decisions.
• Develop and mentor the Division's finance team and contribute to the Finance Senior Leadership Team.

Skills

Excel expertise

Influencing & persuasion

Numerical analysis

Verbal reasoning

Report writing

NHS knowledge

Healthcare finance

Leadership

Planning & prioritising

Education

CCAB or CIMA membership

CPD commitment

Healthcare finance training

Tools

Financial systems

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior finance professional to support the Trust's transformation ambitions, aligned to the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, while helping to secure financial sustainability.

This is an exciting time to join the Surgical Division, which has already made significant productivity progress and theatre utilisation, with a new theatre opening soon providing further capacity. As Senior Finance Manager, you will be a trusted and influential business partner, working alongside operational and clinical leaders to support transformation, identify and deliver efficiencies and ensure the best use of our resources for patients.

You will combine constructive support with respectful challenge, bringing financial insight and an objective perspective to decision making, with a clear focus on value for money and making every Herefordshire pound count. Alongside this, you will provide strong leadership of the Division's management accounts function and bring NHS financial expertise and commercial acumen to complex decisions and business cases.

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Finance Officer you will work collaboratively across the Trust and be an important member of the Finance Senior Leadership Team. As a small Trust, the role offers regular access to the Executive team and excellent exposure to a diverse range of strategic, operational and financial challenges.

The role embraces agile working across our Herefordshire sites and from home.

Main duties of the job

As Senior Finance Manager, you will lead on financial responsibility for the Surgical Division, leading the management accounting service and ensuring strong financial governance, control and performance management.

You will ensure accurate and timely reporting, forecasting and analysis, identifying financial risks and opportunities early and supporting operational and clinical leaders to understand and take ownership of financial performance.

A key priority will be the identification and delivery of efficiencies. Working with divisional colleagues, you will support the development of robust plans, assess opportunities and risks and track delivery, providing financial leadership to transformation programmes and service developments.

You will lead the financial assessment of complex business cases, providing expert advice on affordability, value for money, risk and sustainability. Strong knowledge of NHS finance, funding and financial governance will be essential to providing credible advice and supporting well informed decisions.

You will lead and develop the Division's finance team, setting high standards and supporting professional development, continuous improvement and high performance.

As a senior member of Finance, you will also contribute to the Finance Senior Leadership Team and the continued development of the Trust's finance function.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

• Professionally qualified as an Accountant with current CCAB or CIMA professional membership.
• Commitment and evidence of continuing professional development in line with the post holder's professional accounting body.
• Further specialist finance training and experience related to wider Healthcare finance.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Expert user of Financial systems and Microsoft Excel
• Demonstrable evidence of influencing and persuading
• Evidence of complex numerical assessment experience
• Excellent verbal reasoning
• Advance report writing skills
• Understanding of current NHS structures and key policies
• Knowledge of acute hospital and community healthcare environment
• Ability to lead and motivate staff
• Ability to prioritise and plan workload effectively, in a manner which is sustainable

Experience

• Extensive expert knowledge and experience in NHS Financial Management or equivalent.
• Significant experience at a senior level in the finance sector
• Acute Sector Experience

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• 229-COR-7730391 JDPS ( PDF , 498.8 KB )
• WVT Benefits ( PDF , 621.7 KB )