Detailed job description and main responsibilities

•    To work as part of the Financial Management team to provide financial advice, support and guidance to the directorates in accordance with the Trust’s policies and procedures for financial management and corporate governance.

•    To attend meetings on behalf of the Senior Finance Manager as and when required 

•    Working closely with other Financial Analysts, Management Accounts Team and Financial Accounts team to ensure that accurate financial reports are completed within agreed deadlines

•    Providing analyses as required to the Senior Finance Manager, Head of Financial Management,  Directorate Managers and Budget Holders to support the monthly Directorate reports including:
o    Variance analysis
o    Analysis of actuals versus forecast
o    Monthly/quarterly reforecast
o    Analysis of significant accruals
o    Narrative report focusing on key issues and risks

•    To provide comprehensive financial support to the Clinical Support Services Division including the month end processes, raising of  invoices, tracking of billing and income and expenditure

•    To hold regular meetings with Budget Holders to review their monthly financial position and discuss areas of over-spend and mitigations.

•    To ensure that budgets are accurately input into the ledger and that a full audit trail exists for changes to budgets.

•    To review transactions continuously within Directorate to ensure compliance with delegated limits and approved processes ensuring that, where breaches have occurred, appropriate disclosure is made and action taken to prevent recurrence.

•    To assist in the identification of efficiency savings. To give guidance on the implementation of cost improvement programmes and recovery plans and to facilitate the delivery of a cost efficient and effective service. 

•    To ensure that all accounting adjustments are appropriately authorised and disclosed

•    To assist the Senior Finance Manager and Financial Accounts in the dissemination of financial policies and procedures to appropriate staff and managers. To assist actively in the training of non-financial staff in developing a wider understanding of financial policies and procedures and the financial circumstances of the Directorate.

•    To assist the Financial Planning Team in the preparation of annual financial budgets for the Directorate and clearly understand the planned activity these resources are intended to support; 

•    To maintain budgets in the ledger to reflect accurately the Directorate’s activity, income and expenditure plans. 

•    To maintain cost centre budget establishments reconciling to the budget in the ledger and work with the HR Workforce Team to reconcile to ESR. 

•    To assist in the development of training of managers throughout the directorate in the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions and core financial and budgetary procedures.

•    To support the Senior Finance Manager in ensuring effective communication throughout the Directorate on relevant and key issues for finance.

•    Provide ad-hoc costing information or financial analysis to Budget Holders and Senior Finance Manager as and when required.