Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Overview

The role will be an integral part of the wider Finance Team enabling the delivery of the wider financial position of the organisation by supporting the service lead with provision of analysis (using multiple sources of information), highlighting variation and opportunities through engagement of key stakeholders to develop, improve and disseminate business intelligence.

The Analyst will support both undertaking and continually developing the annual costing process, benchmarking, data collation and validation to support the value agenda linked to Recovery & Renewal across all areas of healthcare delivery and business intelligence provision. Support the service lead in delivering an effective business intelligence solution to enhance both data analytics and service modelling.

The post holder will also need to acquire or develop other data sources to support these duties, including both the input from and output to, other clinical and data management systems across the Health Board.

Support the service lead in managing the Costing IT infrastructure and developing and maintaining a sustainable plan for costing IT, to ensure an efficient, effective and resilient service is provided across PTHB.

Responsibilities and Duties

Create objective reports from internal and external sources that inform evaluation of PTHB services and financial performance. Understanding, exploring and clarifying the linkages between financial, informatics and workforce data.

Develop and utilise benchmarking models that compare the Health Board’s performance internally, with the best in the UK or worldwide where appropriate and provide sufficient analysis to support performance improvement. This will include the design and maintenance of spreadsheets, databases and bespoke systems.

Work with financial, clinical and operational teams to plot and then model activities along a clinical pathway, to inform Value Based Health Care and service improvement debates, both within the Health Board and more widely across NHS Wales.

Exercise judgement involving a myriad of facts and figures and situations that require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options. In doing so this will include the exploration of new areas where there may be no or few precedents to rely upon.

Recognising patterns and inter-relationships in disparate sources of data, to model, interpret and appropriately advise recipients.

A pro-active approach to finding and filtering the multitude of available data sources to both identify and react to the key impacts of new initiatives including, where appropriate, leading upon the presentation and explanation to inform service change actions locally.

Develop ad-hoc reports and support the initiation of corrective action in conjunction with budget holders and the Business Partnering Finance team for a Division/Locality/Directorate.

Work with budget holders, clinicians and other staff to analyse and understand the links between financial and service issues – including the use of business intelligence (e.g., benchmarking, time driven activity-based costing, patient-level costing) and highlight anomalies. This will include receiving complex, sensitive and often contentious information. Displaying a high level of understanding of both the data and models, as well as their construction and express this understanding in layman’s terms to up-skill both finance and non-finance managers on the use of business intelligence, costing methodologies and detailed, intelligent processing mapping.

Maintain and enhance the quality and accuracy of information and systems through working with clinical and service managers, other finance staff to improve the range, quality and timeliness of finance and service performance information. Understand and communicate to budget holders the current organisational and financial drivers.

Assist in developing models to support new ways of working and future service changes. Support the whole health system by aiding the implementation of finance systems to support modern, integrated clinical services and provide best value in the use of resources available across the Community.

Work closely with key decision makers to contribute to a long-term strategy that ensures financial sustainability in the Health Board. Work independently, to plan and prioritise own work within broad parameters, ensure effective support to all areas and delivery of key objectives and deadlines. In doing so balancing routine work against internally or externally agreed deadlines, with progressing medium-term objectives and responding to ad-hoc queries.

Through the application of project management principles ensure clarity of required tasks, responsibilities, progress against timescales and risks, in delivering the agreed objectives for this role. Maintaining an effective working relationship with other members of Finance, other officers of the Health Board and outside organisations to deliver a professional service.

Participate in the development and implementation of annual objectives in line with Health Board objectives and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Be proactive and flexible to provide financial support as required to PTHB wide work streams including cross divisional/locality working.

Ensure full compliance with all financial, information governance and corporate governance procedures issued by PTHB.

Undertake audit as necessary for own work.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.