Finance Manager in Hereford

Wye Valley NHS Trust is looking for an enthusiastic CCAB qualified Accountant to take on the role of Finance Manager. You will be a self-motivated, pro-active individual with strong time management and organisational skills. You will also have excellent technical and communication skills. This is a key role within the department offering varied and challenging work in a complex and dynamic environment. The post holder will promote best practice in the provision of senior financial support across the Trust. This involves close working with clinical and operational teams and the ability to analyse and present highly complex information to non-finance staff.

Main duties

• Provide financial expertise to support clinical and operational teams in the activities of the Trust.
• Ensure good financial governance is followed and decision making is supported with high quality financial information.
• Involved in the management, training and development of other members of the Trust, both finance and non-finance, as appropriate.
• Work with Trust colleagues and with other external stakeholders such as suppliers, the Integrated Care Board and other NHS Trusts.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we want for our family and friends. More than 3,000 people work for the Trust; they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

• Professionally qualified as an Accountant with current CCAB or CIMA professional membership.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Experience

• Proven extensive Financial and Business Track Record.
• Comfortable and capable of clear communicating at all levels.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Up to date knowledge of NHS Finance and Accounting practice.
• High level of communication and interpersonal skills.
• Full understanding of NHS performance regime.
• Excellent skills in use of Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information in various forms.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.