Senior Finance Business Partner in City of London

We are looking for top talent to join the UK’s leading and fastest growing pathology company – a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose. Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Finance Business Partner in our busy, professional finance department. The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant and have experience in management accounts and business partnering. They’ll manage two direct reports and develop their team’s exposure to all levels of management, both within the finance team and across our pathology labs. The role reports to the Lead Finance Business Partner and acts as an intermediary between the central Finance Team and Synnovis Analytics’ & Services’ operations. The role requires proactive collaboration with the business and would suit someone looking for a semi-autonomous position with plenty of scope to add value.

You will be responsible for working closely with senior operations staff, producing, interpreting, and communicating the financial results; you’ll partner with them to take the actions necessary to deliver the budget on target, as well as driving further improvements in the financial performance of the business. Each month you’ll gather financial and operational data from various sources and produce the month-end reporting packs which are key to interpreting performance and partner with the site leads to take management actions based on that information. You will monitor financial information and produce variance analysis, budgeting, and re-forecasting, as well as provide analysis to support business cases and new test pricing which drive the business forward.

Main duties of the job:

• Partnering with the Director of Operations for Reference Services to drive EBITDA insight & improvements across our various laboratory sites.
• Responsible for KCH and their subcontract(s) accounting and reporting.
• Overall responsibility for RBH&H and their subcontract(s) accounting and reporting although the Finance Business Partner within your team manages this contract from a day-to-day perspective.
• Identifying ways to make cost-savings or drive growth.
• Budgeting and Forecasting performance.
• Managing the customer contract (KCH) to make sure payments and charges between the organisations are up to date, disputes are resolved, and contract developments are advanced in a timely manner.
• Preparation and circulation of monthly management reporting.
• Investigating variances to budget or forecast.
• Presenting performance to CFO, COO and Lead FBP.
• Supporting the production of quality business cases.
• Managing a team of two finance business partners.
• Month end close P&L responsibilities.
• Developing pricing for new tests and other service enhancements.

Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland and the NHS, operating laboratories at various sites including Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across Southeast London. The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services. The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.

Person specification:

• Fully-Qualified in a recognised accounting qualification, namely ACA, ACCA, CIPFA or CIMA.
• Proven Finance Business Partnering experience of working across operational and corporate functions.
• Proven financial savings/ benefits that have added value to the Business.
• Team management and development experience.
• Experience within Healthcare/ Scientific Industry.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Fast thinker, highly numerate with strong analytical skills.
• Detail orientated, ensuring tasks are finished to high standard.
• Be able to tell a story to a non-finance audience, to demonstrate how the financial data ties into strategic business objectives.
• Confident presenter with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and networks across all levels of the organisation, including operational teams.
• Proactive and independent approach to problem-solving, with the ability to exercise sound judgement and elevate issues appropriately.
• Ability to work with uncertainty and incomplete financial information, using analysis, trends and sound judgement to support informed decision-making.
• SAP Experience.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. All applicants are welcome to apply regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

Our Bank workers enjoy competitive market rates and flexible contract assignments across all of our sites, dependent on your availability and location. For our Permanent workforce we offer a competitive benefits package. All employees are entitled to:

• Contributory pension scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.

All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.