Finance Manager - Evelina London

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for a Finance Manager role within the Evelina London finance team, at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

This role is the key support for the Medicine & Neonatology directorate, which is the largest and most complex directorate within the Evelina Clinical Group.

Main duties of the job

The Finance Manager provides business partnering support to their Directorate in all their monthly, annual and ad hoc financial performance and planning activities. They are responsible for month end reporting for their areas, forecasting and financial planning in conjunction with clinicians and operational managers, consulting with the Directorate General Manager and Deputy Head of Finance and presenting reports at Directorate meetings. They form an integral part of the Directorate's Management Team.

This person will hold a professional qualification in accountancy (CCAB or equivalent) and will be able to provide evidence of continuously developing by having relevant post-qualification experience or significant management accounting experience in a large, complex organisation (NHS experience is beneficial but not essential). Business partnering is a key element of the role so this person must demonstrate strong communication/people skills, the ability to present analysis and influence budget holders.

Working for our organisation

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With almost 4,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas'.

Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in hospital and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.

As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through five clinical directorates: Children's Medicine & Neonatology; Children's Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia; Children's Cardio-respiratory and Intensive Care; Children's Community Services and Women's Services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Personal Specification for more details.

If you would like to discuss the opportunity, please feel free to contact Brad Tobin (bradley.tobin@gstt.nhs.uk).

Interviews for this role are expected to be on the 3rd January or early the following week.

Person specification

Qualifications and Education

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

Professional/ Statutory Registration

Essential criteria

• Completion of a CCAB recognised accountancy qualification
• Evidence of commitment to ongoing personal development

Desirable criteria

• Significant post qualification experience preferably in a specialist financial management role

Previous experience

Essential criteria

• In applying the concepts and techniques for: • budgeting and financial planning, • costing and pricing, • variance analysis and financial reporting, • the purpose of accounting accruals and provisions • dealing with relationships between the balance sheet, revenue accounts and cash flow statements,
• Experience with presenting and explaining financial information to non-finance staff.
• Comfortable in manipulating both financial and non-financial data, with the ability to draw out key insights from numerical information.
• The Finance Manager must be able to show an appreciation of the role and responsibilities required.

Desirable criteria

• Must understand and demonstrate knowledge of good personnel practice and its application.
• Experience in staff recruitment, interviewing and of the Trust's disciplinary procedures.
• Experience in the application of accounting techniques and solutions drawn from other disciplines or industry

Skills / Knowledge / Ability

Essential criteria

• An understanding of: • the key financial performance targets for NHS Trusts • the rationale for Standing Financial Instructions and the means for ensuring that they are adhered to, • the ways in which healthcare is delivered, coupled with knowledge of NHS financial regulations.
• The ability to provide advice and support from across all of the accounting disciplines is essential.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex financial issues effectively with both non-finance and finance staff.
• Ability to build strong relationships across finance and non-finance teams, to deliver high quality business partnering support.
• Personal presentation must be of a high professional standard
• Strong sense of quality and customer focus.
• Strong time-management skills & ability to balance competing priorities while ensuring deadlines are met.
• Proficient with MS Office products including advanced MS Excel skills

Desirable criteria

• Excellent persuasion and negotiation skills are required to ensure delivery of balanced financial plans.
• Prepared to lead on the operational issues of the department and to take responsibility for policy and service development of financial reporting for clinical and corporate departments

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to work at a PC, sometimes for a considerable period of time

Additional Information

Essential criteria

• Ability to work across multiple sites.

Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Finance Manager - Job Description (PDF, 192.5KB)
• Finance Manager - Personal Specification (PDF, 122.1KB)
• FRF - Finance Manager (PDF, 152.2KB)