Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate

Health Jobs UK; Pencoed; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Assistant Director - Financial Planning Delivery Directorate

If you are a highly motivated, experienced, and qualified finance professional with a strong demonstrable background that includes costing, financial management, performance, intelligence, and delivery then we would be keen to hear from you and welcome your application.

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• CCAB / CIMA Qualified & Member of Professional body.
• Educated to Postgraduate level or equivalent, Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

Desirable criteria

• Programme / Project Management qualification.
• Evidence of personal research into a clinical, managerial, financial area.

Experience and Specialist Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience, working at a senior level in a large complex organisation, Proven experience of developing and delivering financial management services successfully for a large organisation.
• Minimum of five years experience as a senior finance manager within the NHS.
• Record of effective contribution to the development of business strategy, Experience of planning and implementing long-term development programmes.
• Experience of strategic thinking at a senior level, Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker.
• Proven track record of successfully introducing service improvement or successful management of significant organisational change in a complex environment, Participation in significant change management projects.
• Significant experience of working with staff, their representatives and professional organisations, Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating, managing and developing teams.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Turnaround & Intervention approaches and delivery, Demonstrates expertise in specific professional areas.
• Good knowledge of NHS Wales finance regime, including a thorough understanding of organisations financial duties, responsibilities and governance requirements, Good understanding of the concepts of Value Based Healthcare.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to analyse and appropriately present often highly complex information, Highly tuned analytical skills, including ability to identify key issues from a range of complex financial data, Able to interpret complex qualitative and quantitative information and provide advice to senior leaders.
• Ability to communicate excellently both verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive.
• Self-motivated and committed to developing self and team members, Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of the team to operate effectively, Ability to work independently to a specified remit, ensuring agreed deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen, Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
• Standard keyboard skills.
• Sound judgement, decision making, and organisational skills, Able to interpret legislation and guidance as appropriate to the role.

Desirable criteria

• Ability and confidence to constructively challenge and support senior NHS staff and their teams.
• Ability and confidence to demonstrate leadership across NHS Wales on driving improvements in financial planning and financial management.

Disposition

Essential criteria

• Appropriate attitudes with a high level of professional ethics and integrity, Enthusiastic, Committed, Proactive, and Innovative.

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Must be mobile and able to travel locally and nationally, Emotionally Intelligent, Politically astute & high level of intuition, Work collaboratively & build relationships effectively, Resilience & reliability under pressure, Appetite for challenges, with a high level of personal integrity.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to communicate in Welsh.

NHS Wales Executive, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

If you are successful and shortlisted for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs - or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our organisation who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.