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Job summary

Main area
Finance
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (This job is a temporary post to cover maternity leave for up to a 12 month period.)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
471-7232883-A
Employer
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB)
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chy Trevail
Town
Bodmin
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) logo

Finance Business Partner Support

Band 5

Job overview

This job is a temporary post to cover maternity leave for up to a 12 month period.

 

The specific purpose of the role is to support a high-quality management accounting service to non-finance budget holders, offering advice on complex financial issues

The role will support NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB business planning, and commissioning to deliver local health services which are high quality, effective and within appropriate governance frameworks. You will deliver an effective financial service supporting managers and staff across NHS Cornwall and the isles of Scilly ICB.

Main duties of the job

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Maintaining ledger records to a high standard and keeping a full audit trail of agreed changes.

Ensure a high quality management accounting service is provided to budget holders.

Provide high quality management accounting support relating to Commissioned/acute services.

Assisting in the on-going maintenance of the roll-over budget calculations, including the calculation and recording of all budget requirements and encompassing the identification and calculation of the current year and full year effects of all adjustments. This will include the construction and maintenance of pivot tables and spreadsheets to allow for appropriate financial analysis and forecasting. The financial outcomes of this analysis to be reported to the Finance Business Partners.

 The post requires using a computer on a daily basis with speed and accuracy. This includes reconciliation of computerised control systems. Developing spread sheets and undertaking enquiries on several financial based systems.

To have the responsibility for the production of accurate, detailed monthly finance reports for managers, including forecasts of the full year position, for incorporation into CIOS ICB’s overall financial reports to the Governing Body.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment and are always keen to hear from people who would like to work with us. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability or long-term health condition, gender identity or expression, race or ethnicity, faith, sex, sexuality or veteran status.

We are looking for people whose personal values and behaviours align with the NHS values outlined in the NHS Constitution and our own values and behaviours. 

 

You can look forward to excellent benefits including discounts schemes, optional pension and life assurance, flexible working, salary sacrifice vehicles and cycles and much more.

Hybrid working

We offer the flexibility to work from an office (Bodmin or Truro), and from home, depending on the requirements of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for the detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Certificate Level/Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) member or equivalent experience to degree level

Personal Qualities and Values

Essential criteria
  • • Professional, diplomatic and helpful manner. • Able to establish credibility with Senior Managers and other staff. • Accuracy and attention to detail. • Time management. • Patient and Staff confidentiality awareness. • Able to work under pressure and able to multi-task • An effective team worker • Able to translate and record information • Team player

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Use professional knowledge and expertise acquired through formal qualification and work based experience plus participating in Continuing Professional Development. • Have analytical skills for preparing financial analysis, forecasting and performance reviews. • Ability to use a wide range of IT skills to present and communicate information effectively. • Three years’ experience of working in a financial management environment • Awareness of accounting policies and standards. • Use of analytical skills to recognise trends/anomalies and take necessary action. • Ability to convert large quantities of data into meaningful information • Knowledge of and ability to apply operational policies and procedures.

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Have a proactive approach. • Ability to derive information from multiple sources of data and to summarise and present these in a concise manner. • Able to contribute in financial discussions with Senior Management. • High degree of computer literacy utilising complex finance systems. • Ability to prioritise, rank and rate urgency and importance of workload. • Present complex data in an accessible and understandable fashion to non-finance managers • Logical, methodical and organised approach to working.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Leanne Carroll
Job title
Finance Business Partner and Development Lead
Email address
[email protected]
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