Finance Analyst

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the CSU Finance team at Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit for a Finance Analyst to play a key role in delivering business finance support services. We want a team player, who is proactive, resilient and driven to succeed, with a real commitment to work as part of the team taking the finance function forward and contributing to the CSU and our clients' success.

In return we offer great opportunities to become part of a vibrant organisation where passion and commitment forms part of our vision to provide high quality care to patients and services to our customers. We have demonstrated our strength, quality and positive culture of our finance team by achieving One NHS Finance Towards Excellence Accreditation highest level.

The Finance Analyst will be pivotal in ensuring that the CSU meets its financial targets in terms of both income and margin generation. The role will be responsible for ensuring the effective use of financial resources by working with the Senior Business Partner, service leads and budget holders in order to manage financial risk.

The post holder will also be expected to provide financial advice and support to non-finance managers, discuss complex, contentious and/or sensitive issues with budget holders, managers and other senior officers within the CSU together with other stakeholders as appropriate.

The post holder should be an experienced Accountant who has brilliant management skills, who is comfortable compiling reports and holding meetings with different leaders to correlate data and support improvements and efficiencies.

ML is committed to our process of redeployment at risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed.

The duties and responsibilities outlined in this document are indicative and are not exhaustive. The post holder may be requested to carry out other tasks that are necessary.

• Ensure an efficient finance function and contribute to its day to day running.
• Ensure financial information is processed in accordance with procedures and investigate complex enquiries providing assistance and advice as required.
• Review and maintain the CSU general ledger in relation to all financial management aspects.
• Support the development of short, medium and long term financial plans.
• Generate and maintain standard operating procedures and ensure their adherence to production of internal and external reports on financial performance incorporating commentary on variances to plans and forecasts.
• Provide an outward facing, high quality and customer focused Finance Business partnering service to the Divisions and SBU.
• Provide financial information that is robust and accurate and influence budget holders to prioritise required actions.
• Provide high quality tools, information and data to enable budget managers to effectively and efficiently manage budgets and support development of strategies to improve financial performance.
• Provide accounting and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
• Constructively and positively challenge all aspects of Division financial performance.
• Ensure that there is a robust control environment in place within the Divisions to ensure compliance with corporate governance procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring accurate sales invoicing and reviewing the status of the sales ledger.

• Experience of working in a finance office environment.
• Experience in preparing, and inputting ledger amendments for journals and budget transfers.
• Knowledge of financial management processes and reporting requirements.
• Excellent analytical/numerical skills.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.