Deputy Director of Finance in Salford

The Deputy Director of Finance is a key senior leadership role, responsible for delivering high-quality business partnering to one of our six, newly formed, clinical care groups in line with professional accounting standards and ethical practice. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a newly formed senior leadership team.

Your role will include working closely with clinical and operational management colleagues at a senior level to provide an effective and productive business partnering relationship ensuring clear ownership and accountability for budgets and responsive financial insight. You will also be part of the Trust's senior financial leadership team with a focus on ensuring financial sustainability and supporting achievement of Trust objectives. You will lead, develop, and empower finance colleagues, fostering a culture of inclusion, professional growth, and talent development.

We are looking for someone with a strong track record of delivering results, successful management of multiple, concurrent programmes of work, with enthusiasm and commitment to driving change, and motivating teams. Excellent relationship-building, communication, and engagement skills are essential for influencing across the Trust and wider system.

• Operational financial advice and decision support: Providing financial analysis, insight, and challenge to support delivery of Trust objectives.
• Financial planning and analysis: Leading budgeting, forecasting, and tracking variances. Supporting the development of recovery plans as required to ensure financial targets are met.
• Performance management: Monitoring key performance indicators to assess financial health and operational efficiency.
• Stakeholder management: Collaborating with clinical and operational colleagues to provide financial guidance and build trusted relationships.
• Investment support: Supporting and evaluating business cases including identifying sources of funding for developments aligned to Trust objectives.
• Cost management and productivity: Supporting clinical and operational colleagues to identify opportunities for increased productivity and cost savings and driving efficiency improvements across the Trust.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.

We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work‑life balance.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within our Candidate Information Pack, by visiting our careers website or via the NCA website.

We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team. We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance for this vacancy. If you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date.

• CCAB Qualified Accountant
• Evidence of continuing professional development

• High level of interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, persuasive and facilitation
• Well developed political awareness, influencing, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Makes judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, requiring significant analysis and interpretation
• Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities recognising deadlines and priorities

• Evidence of strong leadership, management in and of organisational change and delivery of performance improvement
• Experience of working in a pressurised, unpredictable environment with challenging requirements and deadlines
• Evidence of working across organisational boundaries

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.