Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

FP&A Controller (Healthcare)

£80-85K

Central London (Hybrid Working – 3 days in the office)

My client is within the Healthcare Industry and are looking for an FP&A Business partner to sit in between finance and the Care Groups. The role is a key interface into the finance team and would own the financial plan and forecast for the cared group.

Duties Include:

• Own the Care Group P&L from a finance perspective driving optimal financial performance from the top to bottom line.
• Deliver the Care Group P&L Plan/Forecast inputs & sensitivities to central FP&A Team ensuring underlying integrity of assumptions, full buy in and ownership of the Care Group management team.
• Be the financial point of contact to the Care Group providing business partnering as required including, financial input and screening of Business Cases (Growth, resources including Capex), assessing Marketing program ensuring best ROI for the respective Care Group.
• Assess strategically the long term service model of the care group providing financial advise and analysis as required. Communicate emerging trading risks and opportunities, proposing and delivering strategies to mitigate or maximise these as appropriate
• Developing strong relationships built on trust with the Care Group senior leadership team and influencing them to make excellent financial decisions, and supporting them through the process
• Provision of commentary underpinned by high quality business insight in line with the month end and quarterly forecast cycle
• Working with central FP&A Team & Clinical teams on variable clinical staffing controls utilising existing reporting including health roster reports and improving compliance rates and the overall staffing efficiency levels.
• Own the care group Establishment Model (staffing plan tool) output, challenging resource requests ensuring optimal staffing levels are planned, follow up on variances
• Working with Procurement to identify and unlock Supply efficiencies relevant to the Care Group
• Lead on procedure profitability, particularly drawing insight and actions from the provided model and implementing changes to optimise profitability. Further developing the Clinic’s profitability analysis capability with regards to patient pathways for the relevant Care Group.
• Assess competitors by conducting periodic company benchmarking, in terms of both KPIs and financial results as required and if available.
• Adhoc analysis as required to provide best-in-class financial support.

Required Experience:

• Progressive career development with demonstrable evidence of driving tangible financial improvement (essential)
• Prior successful financial ownership of a P&L, or lines within it ( eg Revenue, cost center) (essential)
• High emotional intelligence and excellent communication skills (able to discuss and present financials to a non-financial audience) (essential). Comfortable spending more time with clinicians than with spreadsheets
• Healthcare experience (desirable)
• ACCA/CIMA/ACA Qualified with minimum 4 years post qualified experience
• Degree 2/2 minimum
• Advanced excel skills, Power BI and an affinity for automation to provide analysis