Job overview

We are seeking a strategic and highly analytical Associate Director of Finance (Band 8d) to lead our Financial Management function. Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will be responsible for ensuring robust and comprehensive financial management consistent with the delivery of key financial and operational objectives. This role is vital for providing effective business analysis and advice to management teams to proactively influence business strategy and critical decision-making

Main duties of the job

The post-holder is responsible for ensuring robust & comprehensive financial management consistent with the delivery of key financial & operational objectives.

Specifically, the post-holder will ensure the trust-wide development of detailed and coherent Income and Expenditure budgets in Clinical Groups and Corporate Directorates in support of the Associate Director of Finance – Financial Planning & Contracting, who will lead the Trust wide budget setting process, effective monitoring and reporting of financial performance against those budgets and oversight of processes to ensure the remediation of any variance from those budgets to secure key financial & operational objectives. This shall include processes for the development and monitoring of necessary & sufficient cost improvement programmes.

The post-holder will ensure the provision of effective business analysis and advice to devolved management teams and support & proactively influence business strategy and critical decision making. This shall include, but not be limited to, an understanding of service line profitability and development of strategies and specific proposals for service & financial improvement.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.