Finance Business Partner

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About you

We're looking for an experienced finance leader who can combine strong technical expertise with excellent stakeholder engagement skills.

You'll have:

• CCAB or CIMA professional qualification with current membership of a recognised professional body.

• Significant post-qualification experience in financial management within a complex organisation.

• Extensive knowledge of NHS finance, financial governance and healthcare policy.

• Experience of budget setting, financial planning and forecasting.

• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial information.

• Strong communication and influencing skills, including experience of presenting financial information to senior stakeholders.

• The ability to build productive relationships across organisational boundaries.

• A proactive, collaborative approach with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Why join the East Midlands Cancer Alliance?

At EMCA, finance is at the heart of delivering better cancer outcomes. Every investment decision supports improvements in earlier diagnosis, faster treatment and better experiences for patients across the East Midlands.

Joining EMCA means you'll have the opportunity to:

• Influence strategic investment across a regional NHS programme.

• Work alongside senior NHS leaders and finance professionals.

• Shape innovative approaches to programme funding and financial governance.

• Support transformation programmes that improve care for millions of people.

We offer:

• Hybrid and flexible working.

• NHS Pension Scheme.

• Excellent annual leave entitlement.

• Professional development and CPD opportunities.

• A supportive and collaborative working environment.

Working arrangements

The role is based at County Hall, Leicester, with hybrid working available. Regular travel across the East Midlands is required, including visits to provider Trusts, Integrated Care Boards and regional meetings. The successful candidate must be able to travel independently throughout the region.

Join us

If you're an experienced finance professional who wants to influence healthcare transformation, drive value for money and ensure investment delivers lasting improvements for cancer patients, we'd love to hear from you.

Join the East Midlands Cancer Alliance and help ensure every pound invested delivers better cancer care across the East Midlands.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• CCAB/CIMA qualified and current member of recognised professional body.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent;
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development;
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Member of relevant professional body

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change

Analytical

Essential criteria

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
• Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.

Planning Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Experience/knowledge of project principles techniques and tools

Management Skills

Essential criteria

• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

Autonomy

Essential criteria

• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria

• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.

Financial and Physical Resources

Essential criteria

• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.

Other

Essential criteria

• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
• Professional calm and efficient manner
• Effective organizer, influencer and networker
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
• Ability to travel independently across the region and occasionally beyond.

Additional Information

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.

UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.

The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three month period commencing on your first month's payment.

The current price of a check is £38 for an enhanced and £18 for a standard check.

COVID 19 Risk Assessment

Due to the current Covid pandemic we have introduced a staff risk assessment into our pre-employment process. This now forms part of the mandatory pre-employment checks that will be carried out if you receive a conditional offer.

The risk assessment is intended to ensure you are able to safely perform your duties in any of our work areas, and if you have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Our main aim is to reduce risk and to ensure the safety of all new starters to the Trust as well as current staff, patients and visitors.

If it is identified that you are within a vulnerable category, we will endeavor to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate this through discussions with both Occupational Health and your recruiting manager.

Covid Vaccination Status

Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We therefore continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything it does and all that it stands for. We are committed to developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from the diverse community of Leicester, Leicester and Rutland, to help deliver healthcare services that meets the needs of our diverse communities.

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