Finance Officer in Belfast

MPA are currently looking for a Finance Officer for their large public sector client in the Belfast Area. Our client provides a wide range of services and employs secretaries in a variety of settings. The postholder will play a significant role in the analysis and provision of information to ensure that the Trust maximises its use of resources to deliver modern, safe, effective and efficient services for patients and clients, with a specific focus on Elective Care.

The postholder will develop and deliver changes in the financial regime, focusing on income maximisation, cost improvement and supporting the Trust’s reform and modernisation agenda. The postholder will provide financial information and advice to senior accountants and other senior colleagues across the organisation. He/she will contribute to the development, delivery and achievement of the Trust’s Corporate Plan.

Location: Belfast

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £15.88 to £24.45 per hour

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop, in conjunction with senior managers, robust efficiency programmes which will be effectively mainstreamed within core business, seeking to deliver improvements for patients and clients.
• Undertake the production, analysis and interpretation of benchmarking and VFM/Audit Studies across Trusts, ensuring the implications are communicated, understood and acted upon.
• Use Costing, Benchmarking, VFM/Audit Studies and other information to proactively challenge performance in clinical and non-clinical areas to drive reform, modernisation and service improvements across the Trust.
• Assist in the development of the new financial regime and commissioning arrangements, promoting and ensuring income maximisation and cost improvement.
• Provide financial support to the Trust’s Elective Care Waiting List Initiatives, establishing robust systems of costing, modelling and monitoring.
• Work closely with senior managers to ensure the implications are communicated, understood and acted upon.
• Assist in the production, analysis, interpretation and comparison of the financial aspects of complex problems and business cases to reform and modernise health and social care services.
• Provide financial information and advice across the Trust.
• Assist in the provision of financial information focusing on income maximisation and cost improvements, working with non-finance staff across the Trust and promoting the development of integrated performance information.
• Advise and influence managers of other systems to ensure the information needs of the Finance Department are met.
• Assist in adhoc projects, establishing methods and systems of collating and recording financial information, communicating and implementing processes accordingly.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Qualified Accountant with a recognised professional body and 3 years suitable relevant finance experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven track record of having worked with a diverse range of stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation, to achieve successful financial management outcomes for a minimum of 2 years.
• A thorough working knowledge of financial systems and Microsoft Office.
• Hold a current full driving licence which is valid for use in the UK and have access to a car on appointment. This criteria will be waived in the case of applicants whose disability prohibits driving but who have access to a form of transport approved by the Trust which will permit them to carry out the duties of the post.
• Financial experience to include a minimum of 1 year’s experience within the health sector.