Assistant Director of Finance - Financial Management (NHS AfC: Band 8c) - Finance - Bradford Te[...]

Employer: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Daisy Bank, Bradford Royal Infirmary

Town: Bradford

Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/09/2024 23:59

Interview date: 01/10/2024

Assistant Director of Finance - Financial Management

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Job overview

Closing Date: 17.09.24 (this may change dependent on response)

Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 18.09.24

Interview expected to take place following shortlisting 01.10.24

Are you looking to develop your career in a fast-paced, exciting and supportive working environment? At Bradford, we believe we are all stewards of taxpayer money. As a One NHS Finance Level 2 accredited finance function, this is especially important to us. We work with our hospital teams and system partners to do the very best for our patients.

At Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust (BTHFT), we are committed to career development and offer a flexible and collaborative working environment where your health and wellbeing are valued. We are constantly evolving, improving, and encouraging innovation. An opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Director of Finance - Financial Management.

This is a core role within the Senior Leadership Team and will contribute to the strategic development of the Finance function at the Foundation Trust.

Following recent staff turnover, our Finance department is currently under-represented by women in all positions. While we absolutely encourage applications from all interested candidates who have the skills and drive to succeed in the role, as a department with a firm commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we would be particularly keen to receive applications from female candidates.

Main duties of the job

Working together to make Bradford a great place to work.

Responsible to the Deputy Director of Finance for the leadership of the Financial Management function, ensuring the department supports the Trust in achieving its short and long-term financial plans. Ensure there is an effective budgetary control framework in place, along with related systems and policies that allow financial planning and performance reporting to meet internal and regulatory requirements.

Working for our organisation

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We are one team

We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full description of the requirements of the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of working in a large organisation with complex management structures.
• Demonstrates a significant level of financial competency at a strategic and operational level.
• Demonstrable evidence of delivering and implementing innovative ways of working.
• Experience of providing board-level financial information, forecasting, and gaining ownership of financial information to support decision-making.
• Experience of financial risk assessment and reporting and the development of risk management strategies.
• Experience of business case development and implementation.
• Practical experience of developing and delivering efficiencies and recovery plans.
• Experience of working in finance in an NHS environment.
• Experience of working effectively with clinicians.

Skills

• Highly developed computer literacy skills demonstrating the ability to create and present highly complex financial information using computer software packages.
• Demonstrates the emotional intelligence and stamina necessary to achieve demanding challenges and goals in a complex and challenging environment.
• Demonstrable evidence of influencing and managing organisational change, with clear decision-making.
• Ability to analyse complex data, statistics, and financial information, often where there is a need for interpretation or comparison of a range of options.
• Demonstrates ability to lead and develop a team.
• Excellent communication skills including listening, influencing, and persuading, with the ability to communicate key messages to finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Ability to develop and maintain communication with people on highly complex issues, anticipating significant barriers and taking action to overcome these barriers and improve communication as necessary.
• There will be a need for frequent prolonged concentration due to the nature of the highly complex information being analysed.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards in the classification and reporting of financial transactions.
• Knowledge of NHS funding flows and the financial framework of an NHS Foundation Trust.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified (CCAB, CIMA, etc).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Further specialist training or equivalent experience.
• Graduate or equivalent.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.