Senior Finance Business Partner

The place to work in pathology

We are looking for top talent to join the UK's leading and fastest growing pathology company - a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose.

Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals, King's College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Finance Business Partner in our busy, professional finance department to cover a 9-month maternity leave.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant and have experience in management accounts and business partnering. They'll manage two direct reports and develop their team's exposure to all levels of management, both within the finance team and across our pathology labs.

The role reports to the Lead Finance Business Partner and acts as an intermediary between the central Finance Team and Synnovis Analytics' & Services' operations. The role requires proactive collaboration with the business and would suit someone looking for a semi-autonomous position with plenty of scope to add value.

You will be responsible for working closely with senior operations staff, producing, interpreting, and communicating the financial results; you'll partner with them to take the actions necessary to deliver the budget on target, as well as driving further improvements in the financial performance of the business.

Each month you'll gather financial and operational data from various sources and produce the month-end reporting packs which are key to interpreting performance and partner with the site leads to take management actions based on that information. You will monitor financial information and produce variance analysis, budgeting, and re-forecasting, as well as provide analysis to support business cases and new test pricing which drive the business forward.

Main duties of the job

Working within the Finance Business Partnering team you'll partner across our business, working closely with Operations to drive performance.

The role is based at our Head Office, but you'll need to engage with our Operations teams and stakeholders across all our hospital sites.

Responsible for financial management information reporting across several Core contracts and divisions, this is a fantastic opportunity to take your next step in a commercially focussed finance role and add value to our growing business.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Partnering with the Director of Operations for Reference Services to drive EBITDA insight & improvements across our various laboratory sites.
• Responsible for KCH and their subcontract(s) accounting and reporting.
• Overall responsibility for RBH&H and their subcontract(s) accounting and reporting although the Finance Business Partner within your team manages this contract from a day-to-day perspective.
• Identifying ways to make cost-savings or drive growth.
• Budgeting and Forecasting performance.
• Managing the customer contract (KCH) to make sure payments and charges between the organisations are up to date, disputes are resolved, and contract developments are advanced in a timely manner.
• Preparation and circulation of monthly management reporting.
• Investigating variances to budget or forecast.
• Presenting performance to CFO, COO and Lead FBP.
• Supporting the production of quality business cases.
• Supporting decision-making around new hires, capital equipment, etc.
• Managing a team of two finance business partners.
• Month end close P&L responsibilities.
• Developing pricing for new tests and other service enhancements.

Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland and the NHS, operating laboratories at various sites including Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across Southeast London.

The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services.

The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Fully-Qualified in a recognised accounting qualification, namely ACA, ACCA, CIPFA or CIMA.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven Finance Business Partnering experience of working across operational and corporate functions.
• Proven financial savings/ benefits that have added value to the Business.
• Team management and development experience.
• Experience within Healthcare/ Scientific Industry.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• SAP experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Fast thinker, highly numerate with strong analytical skills.
• Detail orientated, ensuring tasks are finished to high standard.
• Be able to tell a story to a non-finance audience. Demonstrate how the financial data ties into strategic business objectives.
• Influence and work effectively with non-financial managers.
• Credible and confident presenter.
• Accountable for own area of responsibility.
• Excellent problem solver - and importantly they know that they can't solve problems on their own.
• Excellent time-management and interpersonal skills with an ability to interact effectively at all levels.
• Independent and proactive approach.
• Gets up and into the labs. Seeks regular interaction with the operation to build relationships.
• Flexible outlook and ability to cope with significant change.
• Escalate only when appropriate, and never give up. Don't be an email person. Be proactive and arrange meetings to discuss issues in person.
• Key messages are found in the analysis of trends, poignant insights and solid financial facts, not decimal points.
• Able to deal with uncertainty; decision-making based on uncertain data.

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. All applicants are welcome to apply regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

For our Permanent workforce we offer a competitive benefits package.

All employees are entitled to:

• Contributory pension scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Ground breaking development opportunities.

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Please apply for this post on-line. If you have problems with using the online process, or need any assistance, please email recruitment@synnovis.co.uk.

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Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

If you decide to apply for this post but do not hear back from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in Synnovis.