Director of Operational Finance / Deputy Chief Financial Officer

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Director of Operational Finance plays a crucial role in ensuring the financial health and sustainability of our Trust. The role leads delivery of financial services and management to support our operational objectives while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices. This position requires strong leadership skills, financial insight, deep understanding of healthcare finance, and the ability to deliver high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services.

The role reports into the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for directing the Financial Services and Finance Management teams, the Procurement Directorate, and strategic oversight of the transformation of the Finance team, ensuring a high quality provision of service to the Trust. The post holder will lead and motivate teams effectively as well as building strong relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners.

The role work collaboratively with the whole Financial leadership team, and in particular with the Director of Strategic Finance, the Chief Financial Officer and ICS finance colleagues. Close working relationships will ensure that operational financial planning and performance arrangements are designed in a way which takes into account capital and revenue, and supports delivery of strategic financial plans and financial architecture and incentives.

For a full list of key job responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• CCAB accounting qualification with significant post qualification experience.
• Must have significant evidenced continual professional development

Desirable criteria

• Doctorate/ Masters in a subject relevant to the role or equivalent level management / operational experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Expert understanding of the NHS finance regime
• Experience of delivering complex change programmes
• Experience of applying programme management techniques
• Experience in managing teams
• Experience working in a senior leadership role within a large, complex organisation
• Must be able to demonstrate substantial experience of leadership across multiple financial disciplines and multiple stakeholders.
• Must be able to demonstrate significant experience of strategic financial leadership at a personal level across multiple financial disciplines; with evidence of achieving cross-discipline, targets/goals.
• Must be able to demonstrate substantial experience in financial management of both capital and revenue budgets; including evidence of cost improvements/efficiencies as well as in financial planning.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience in dealing with complex people issues and providing pastoral leadership to teams

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working at Board level with exceptional track record of achievements.
• Deputy or Director level experience

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Proven track record of building successful teams
• Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations

Desirable criteria

• To have received media training

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of NHS policies and regulations
• Able to manage a multiplicity of targets and objectives
• Strategic thinker

Desirable criteria

• Able to judge value for money in its broadest sense
• Able to analyse highly complex and technical information within tight timescales

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to interpret national, health and broad organisational policies and establish the way in which these will be implemented and interpreted
• Able to manage and prioritise conflicting demands and meeting various deadlines required for producing highly complex tasks requiring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proven record of pro-active performance management
• Able to work independently and on own initiative

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to work across the local health community and travel often at short notice
• Advanced IT skills to manage and report on highly complex performance management information

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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