Job summary
Employer heading
Finance Business Partner
Band 7
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Job Title - Finance Business Partner
Hours per week-37.5 Hours per week
Permanent/Fixed term-Permanent
Salary - £43,752 - £50,056 per annum
Closing Date: - 29.05. 2024
Interview Date: - 24.06.2024
Take the next step in your financial management career with George Eliot Hospital as Finance Business Partner. You’ll work as a key colleague to our Surgery and Clinical Support Services – putting you front and centre in our drive to continually improve waiting times and productivity for our local population. Working hand in hand with clinical directorates, you will be supported by an experienced Senior Financial Business Partner as you grow your experience and skills. You’ll also play a part in the overall running of the finance department by acting as a vital bridge between senior and junior team members
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Careers at George Eliot – ‘Where you make a difference’
Main duties of the job
Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner you will be working with our Surgery, Women's & Children & Clinical Support Services Directorates (circa. £81m expenditure budgets).
In addition to the providing accurate and relevant financial information to operational management teams, you will provide holistic financial advice on all business related aspects of their services. This will include, but is not limited to, budget management (income & expenditure), capital investments, development of business cases, identification of savings programmes, service re-designs etc.
You will be supporting service leads to understand, monitor and actively manage their monthly financial performance; ensuring issues or queries are addressed and/or escalated if necessary. You will work closely with service leads, enabling them to freely interpret financial information and control financial variances, offering guidance & advice, allowing potential financial issues to be identified at an early stage, and for effective mitigations to be put in place.
You will work closely with our Income & Contracts team, ensuring the managers understand all aspects of finance including income reporting, patient level costing, activity currencies, contribution and profitability.
You will support the financial monitoring of Cost & Productivity Improvement Programmes, ensuring schemes are identified with clear rationale, and measured appropriately, and in a timely manner.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide financial management support for one or more Directorates providing high quality information, support and advice ensuring a cohesive approach to activity, income, expenditure and workforce.
- To work closely with the clinical & operational managers and relevant budget holders, ensuring the provision of a finance business partnering service.
- To support the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial and strategic issues.
- To support the Head of Financial Management in providing financial reporting, planning, forecasting and advisory service at a Directorate level to the senior management team and Directors.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB (or equivalent) qualified accountant- or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- An additional management or business qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 1 year experience post-qualification
- Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
- Evidence of significant experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
- Experience of responsibility for financial planning and budget setting
- Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
- Experience of presenting information to non-specialist colleagues including senior clinicians (or equivalent)
- Experience of supervisory management
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience in costing, Service Line Reporting in particular
- Acute Sector experience
- Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Green
- Job title
- Senior Finance Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 024 7635 1351
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