Finance Business Partner

Job Summary

We are delighted to be working with Great Ormond Street Hospital as they seek an experienced and dynamic Finance Business Partner to join the team and partner with senior operational teams across a dedicated directorate. This role plays a critical part in providing expert financial management support and challenge to drive the successful operation of clinical units and corporate departments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial management, team leadership, and the ability to provide strategic financial guidance to ensure the success of the trust’s long-term goals.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious and experienced finance professional to make a real impact within a dynamic organization. You will play a key role in shaping the future of the trust’s financial strategy, while supporting a team of talented finance professionals. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding position with opportunities for career progression, then please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

1. Strategic Financial Support: Partner with senior management within the directorate to provide financial guidance, support, and challenge, ensuring that operational teams receive the business and financial support they need to meet their objectives.
2. Team Leadership: Lead a team of finance professionals, including Finance Managers, Assistant Finance Managers, and Management Accountants, ensuring the delivery of high-quality financial management information for clinical and corporate units.
3. Financial Reporting & Forecasting: Oversee the monthly reporting of income and expenditure, ensuring the accuracy, robustness, and ownership of financial data across the portfolio. Develop and manage forecasting systems and models in collaboration with other departments to ensure data integrity and accurate financial planning.
4. Cost Improvement & Service Development: Support the development and modelling of Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) schemes, working closely with managers and clinicians to ensure efficiency and deliverability. Lead the financial modelling of service developments and business cases.
5. Reporting & Analysis: Produce high-quality financial reports for clinical boards, the CFO, and external stakeholders.
6. Budgeting & Planning: Manage the budgeting process to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

About Us

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

Date posted: 28 February 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £70,387 to £80,465 a year pro rata, per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 271-FIN-7039984
Job locations: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street, Central London, WC1N 3JH

Job Responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

GOSH Culture and Values

• Consolidated GOSH values

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

• Qualified CCAB Accountant.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience/Knowledge

• Significant financial management experience at a senior level.
• Significant post qualification experience
• Staff management experience including recruitment, selection, objective setting, appraisals and managing performance.
• Effective team leadership
• Presentation of highly complex financial and non-financial information.
• Inspiring confidence & developing highly effective working relationships with finance, clinical and non-finance colleagues, including those at a senior level.
• Successful challenge of information and assumptions
• Presentation of financial information and leading financial discussions at senior management and executive level meetings.
• Identifying opportunities for change and successful management of the change process.
• Use of financial ledgers & reporting tools
• NHS Financial Regime & Policies
• Awareness of current NHS priorities
• Principles of service line reporting & patient level costing

Desirable

• Significant financial management experience in the NHS
• Supporting managers and clinicians in the use of service line reporting & patient level cost information
• Business Objects

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong report writing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Presentation skills
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Advanced excel skills
• Financial analysis and forecasting
• Complex financial modelling skills
• Ability to work under pressure and plan / prioritise workload
• Attention to detail
• Ability to use own initiative
• Self-motivated
• Proactive & innovative approach to problem solving
• Change management skills
• Persuasion & influencing skills
• Professional
• Corporate awareness
• Excellent team leader

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street, Central London, WC1N 3JH
Employer’s website: #J-18808-Ljbffr