Finance Business Partner and Development Lead

NHS; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 61,000

Job description

Finance Business Partner and Development Lead

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

All roles in the integrated care board (ICB) share a common purpose and responsibility to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICS); to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; to tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; to enhance productivity and value for money and to help the National Health Service (NHS) support broader social and economic development.

The Finance Business Partner and Development Lead will support CIOS ICB and the wider system in delivering a professional Management Accountant finance support function which maintains and develops a financial control and reporting environment actively focused on ensuring the effective application of resources and achieving financial sustainability.

The Finance Business Partner and Development Lead, through their own endeavours and management of a small finance team, delivers proactive and professional support to CIOS ICB and the wider system, providing intelligence-rich performance reporting to challenging deadlines, maintaining and improving a system of operationally appropriate financial controls, and giving expert insight, interpretation and advice.

The Finance Business Partner and Development Lead will lead, manage and develop the local finance team to ensure delivery of complete, accurate, timely and intelligence-rich financial performance information, with particular attention to fact-driven and critically assessed forecasts.

Main duties of the job

Provide leadership, management and delivery of complete, relevant, accurate and timely monthly financial performance reporting including intelligence-based forecasting. Produce comprehensible reports that link financial and operational performance. Enable underlying financial performance and associated risks and benefits to be fully assessed and reported. Ensure financial reporting is properly aligned with other Finance Directorate services e.g. Business Intelligence and Contract Finance. Ensure the timely completion of regular and ad-hoc mandatory and statutory returns, including annual Program Budgeting.

Provide senior finance support to regular accountability meetings within CIOS ICB, including budget and locality managers. Lead and support in-depth review of the financial position and key factors affecting performance within all major activity/expenditure areas. Clearly and effectively present financial information and concepts to non-financial staff. Provide advice and support on appropriate mitigations and risk assessed actions as required. Ensure regular feedback of recurrent/non-recurrent issues into Operational and Financial Planning.

Expert Advice & Input - Proactively acquire, interpret and disseminate national Finance guidance, agreeing and implementing necessary changes to the financial control and reporting environment in a timely manner.

About us

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of our communities, managing the NHS budget, and arranging for the provision of joined-up health services which improve the lives of people who live and work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

By collaborating as an integrated care system (ICS) our health and care organisations can tackle complex challenges, including:

1. improving the health of children and young people
2. supporting people to stay well and independent
3. acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions
4. supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues
5. caring for those with multiple needs as populations age
6. getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.

Person specification

Qualifications, training and professional membership

Full, current membership of a CCAB (inc CIMA) recognised body. Evidence of post Continuing Professional Development (post qualification).

Personal Values

Demonstrates alignment with the NHS values, delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles. Able to demonstrate compassion in the workplace with a track record of active challenge to support improvements in equality, diversity, inclusion, and/or social justice. Demonstrates the living values of openness and integrity, contributing to cultures where this thrives. Committed to continuing professional development, actively developing and supporting a continuous learning culture. Demonstrates behaviours that support innovation and transformation.

Experience

Specialist knowledge of NHS accounting processes and procedures, NHS financial policies, and financial aspects of current and pending NHS legislation. Evidence of planning and delivering programmes, projects and services through individual effort and through teamwork, to challenging deadlines. Experience of inspiring and leading a team and developing the performance of individuals and the team. Familiarity with a large and complex finance ledger system such as Oracle. Experience of year-end Financial Accounting and interface with Audit. Familiarity with NHS contract monitoring and reporting provider contract performance, and the evaluation and interpretation of results.

Skills and knowledge

Advanced analysis skills, primarily using MS Excel, including the set-up and use of pivot tables, and the application of advanced formulae. Design and implementation of potentially complex but comprehensible reports, combining relevant operational and financial information. Preparation of simple process maps and recommendation/initiation of fully considered improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Developed communication skills, both spoken and written, for delivering key messages clearly and comprehensibly to a range of stakeholders at a senior level. Negotiation skills and the ability to use informed persuasion to influence others. Building collaborative, positive relationships with senior level Finance and non-Finance staff. Ability to identify and quantify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions, and to resolve problems in relation to service delivery. Ability to absorb a broad range of information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ and/or no obvious solution is evident. Ability to work supportively and constructively whilst under pressure to achieve tight deadlines. Ability to take direction and work on own initiative, solving problems and ensuring service delivery without constant supervision.

Job details

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.

Salary: £46,148 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours