Senior Finance Business Partner - Corporate

Job Summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a fully qualified, highly motivated, and significantly experienced and innovative finance leader to join GMMH. The role of Senior Finance Business Partner provides high-quality financial management advice and support to managers and clinicians across GMMH’s Corporate Services and leadership to the Corporate Services Finance team.

The person we are looking for;

• Fully Qualified CCAB or ACMA Accountant.
• Highly motivated and proactive
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of working in financial management roles.
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing,
• Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• Ability to manage staff and motivate colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have an excellent understanding of the NHS finance regime, along with strong technical and leadership skills to help the Trust deliver the financial plan.

You will need to possess excellent communication and leadership skills and a real commitment to excellent service delivery. You must be creative and innovative, with the desire and ability to propose changes to working practices and procedures.

The successful person will be responsible for improvements in systems and processes to improve the speed and accuracy of reporting, financial analysis and planning and internal controls.

You will deliver effective communication and have excellent interpersonal and staff management skills, together with strong negotiating skills. A good understanding of NHS finance, including financial planning, budgetary control and performance management is essential.

The postholder will be a key member of the divisional senior management team and will provide expert finance advice and guidance to divisional colleagues and be jointly responsible with other SMT members.

The postholder will produce reports on the financial plans and the performance of a large Corporate Network.

Any applicants will require a full professional accountancy qualification as well as significant post qualification experience working in a senior finance manager role.

About Us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world’s most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Date posted

03 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

437-6590969-A

Job locations

Prestwich Hospital

Bury New Road

Bury

M25 3BL

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Staff Benefits

• Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Degree level education
• CCAB Accountancy Qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Higher level degree or post graduate level management qualification

Experience Essential

• Significant demonstrable experience of financial management, including knowledge of key accounting practice, principles and standards.
• Significant experience of developing, applying and utilising costing practice and methodologies to develop data to drive organisational change.
• Experience of successfully working with and engaging with senior clinicians, operational managers and other stakeholders to understand data and develop action plans.
• Experience of benchmarking, analysing results, data visualisation and presenting opportunities, using a range of complex data sources.
• Experience of staff management and leadership, including delivering support, coaching and training, organising recruitment activities, and providing mechanisms for appraisal and dealing with any issues.
• Knowledge of human resource techniques, required to lead, develop and maximise the performance of staff.
• Creative and innovative, with the desire and ability to propose changes to working practices and procedures.

Desirable

• Experience of costing within the NHS, including the National Cost Collection
• A successful track record at a senior level within the NHS
• Experience of developing or leading on the development of benchmarking and productivity dashboards.

Knowledge Essential

• NHS Costing and national submissions (NCC)
• Knowledge of different intelligence visualisation products.

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS financial policy
• NHS Payments mechanism
• Power BI and SQL

Skills Essential

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to communicate effectively with all disciplines and seniorities, chair meetings and deal with issues covering a wide range of parties.
• Well-developed influencing and negotiating skills and ability to resolve conflict.
• Proven ability to operate/think laterally.
• Strong numeracy, analytical and reasoning skills supported by attention to detail.
• Ability to lead the development of complex data models to triangulate and interpret different information sources, using contemporary business intelligence techniques.
• A high standard of general computer literacy (e.g. Microsoft Office) and able to apply this to the development of complex financial models.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex financial information.
• Ability to lead and build teams, including through coaching and motivating staff.
• Ability to project manage and take the lead on key developments.
• Politically astute and able to see the wider corporate view, and make decisions which are in the best interests of the organisation.
• Ability to take responsibility for own workload and overseeing that of others, forward planning, working flexibly and prioritising competing demands.

Personal Qualities Essential

• Flexible approach to work.
• Strongly proactive and solution orientated.
• Qualities of perseverance, determination, and adaptability.
• Evidence of strategic thinking and innovation.
• Ability to prioritise and work with imposed deadlines.
• Team player.
• A confident, pleasant approach, willing to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Good personal organisation and planning.
• Creative and innovative.

Other Essential

• This role will involve engagement, virtually and in person, with colleagues at different sites across the Trust’s locations, including: Wigan, Bolton, Manchester, Salford, and Trafford. The role may sometimes require travel beyond these areas (e.g. national events and/or conferences).

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.

Employer details

Employer name: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT
Address: Prestwich Hospital, Bury New Road, Bury, M25 3BL
Employer’s website: GMMH Website #J-18808-Ljbffr