At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial planning and support high-profile projects in a dynamic healthcare environment.
- Company: Join St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a major healthcare provider in South West London.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and the chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for career growth and training.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of financial strategy in a leading NHS Trust and enhance healthcare services.
- Qualifications: Experience in NHS finances and exceptional communication skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 44550 - 54450 £ per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, highly motivated, enthusiastic professional to work in a high profile role within the Finance Department of St George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Head of Finance is the day to day contact for the Divisional Director of Operations on budget and planning relating to their own budgets. This is an exciting time to join the finance team at St George’s, as the department looks to enhance the service it provides the Trust. This role supports one of the trust's main clinical divisions. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to provide financial support to high profile projects within the Trust, within a challenging but supportive environment.
Candidates must have worked within a complex and rapidly changing environment preferably with previous experience of NHS finances. Exceptional communication skills are a must to allow effective communication with a broad spectrum of stakeholders including executive directors, clinicians and staff of all levels.
- To provide leadership within the Division to support delivery of an appropriate Financial Risk Rating as determined by the Financial Compliance Framework.
- To provide expert accounting and business knowledge, analytical support and clear presentation of financial and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
- To constructively and positively challenge all aspects of divisional financial and business performance.
- Be accountable to the Director of Financial Performance for the Division’s adherence to Trust financial policies and procedures, statutory requirements and requirements from Department of Health, and NHS Improvement.
- To provide cover for the Director of Financial Performance on a rotational basis for the final sign-off of Divisions and non-Clinical Directorate financial reports and plans.
- Provide cover on a rational basis for the Head of Finance - Reporting in the quality assurance of financial reports and annual plans.
- To actively contribute to the Trust’s financial management training programme for non-finance staff including the design of training material and facilitation and presentation at training events.
- Lead the development of a 5 year integrated income, expenditure, workforce, activity and capacity plan for the Division, including planning for Key Performance Indicators.
- Ensure that datasets required for the production of the 5 year plan are uploaded accurately within the Trust’s finance system.
- Co-ordinate the development of a monthly forecast for income, expenditure, workforce, activity and capacity.
- Prepare detailed bridging statements reconciling year on year performance and validating key movements.
- Maintain a detailed schedule of “normalising adjustments” to ensure the underlying trend analysis and year on year comparison can be clearly reported.
- Identify financial risks and produce a downside financial plan and identify mitigations.
- Lead the development of activity based costing as the basis for planning direct cost budgets and forecasts.
- Represent the finance department and board sub committees as required.
Reporting: Undertake a comprehensive analytical review of monthly, quarterly and annual historical and forecast reports to ensure the veracity of information and highlight and substantiate key issues. Provide an executive reporting pack for Division Board and Trust Committees to ensure that key financial issues are clearly and professionally presented in a format which is tailored to the recipients. Work with the Information team to maintain and develop a suite of Tableau business intelligence applications to support the Division in detailed analysis and discovery of business issues. Develop a collaborative and visual style of presenting financial and business information to Divisional Colleagues. Provide a segmented analysis of Division performance distinguishing between Clinical activity, Research.
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