Band 9 senior finance post sitting on the leadership team of a newly formed Accountable Care Group at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The holder leads financial planning for the group, including its annual and medium-term plans, and drives recovery where performance slips. The portfolio carries roughly £500m of annual income and expenditure, with productivity improvement as a central focus alongside clinical and operational colleagues. Visa sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Lead development and delivery of the ACG's annual financial plan, budget and medium-term financial trajectory, aligned with activity, workforce, quality, research and education priorities
- Set the strategic direction for the ACG's productivity programme, working with clinical and operational leaders to improve efficiency and reduce unwarranted variation
- Optimise income and deliver sustainable financial improvement across the ACG's clinical portfolio
- Lead recovery action where performance is off track
- Act as a full member of the ACG Senior Leadership Team, giving strategic financial leadership, professional advice and constructive challenge
- Shape strategy, priorities and resource deployment with the ACG Managing Director and senior clinical, operational and professional leaders
- Ensure financial sustainability and value are integral to decision-making and service transformation
- Use data, insight and constructive challenge to improve productivity and develop services
- Act as the senior finance leader for the ACG, with responsibility for its financial performance
What’s required
Qualifications
- CCAB-qualified accountant, or equivalent professional expertise with substantial senior post-qualification experience
- Educated to Master's level, or equivalent senior-level knowledge and experience
- Significant continuing professional development relevant to senior financial, productivity and leadership work
Experience
- Extensive senior finance leadership in a large, complex NHS or comparable healthcare organisation, with delegated responsibility for a substantial clinical or operational portfolio
- Senior financial advice and constructive challenge to a divisional, clinical group or care group leadership team
- Leading and developing an embedded finance team, including managing senior finance staff
- Leading financial improvement, productivity or transformation programmes across multiple services
- Developing financial plans, business cases and productivity schemes with senior clinical, operational, workforce, research and education leaders
- Presenting financial and productivity information to senior management, executive or governance forums
Skills & knowledge
- Strong understanding of NHS financial frameworks, annual and medium-term planning, financial governance and control, including Standing Financial Instructions and Scheme of Delegation
- Understanding of how clinical activity, workforce, quality, income, expenditure and productivity connect
- Knowledge of productivity and improvement methods, benefits tracking and delivery governance
- Strong analytical and numerical skills, with budgetary control, forecasting and business case appraisal
- Credible, challenging senior leadership and influencing, including with Executive Directors, senior clinicians and academic leaders
- Clear communication with non-finance audiences, and leading a high-performing finance team
Checks & eligibility
- Right to work for at least 6 months from the proposed start date
Nice to have
- Formal leadership, management, improvement or programme management qualification, or equivalent experience
- Specialist training in NHS costing, productivity, benefits realisation, value-based healthcare, research or education finance
- Experience at or close to Executive or Board level, with delegated accountability for a very large portfolio
- Experience in a large acute, specialist, research-active or teaching hospital
- Experience working within a devolved clinical group, divisional or care group model
- Experience of organisational change linked to new clinical group structures
- Experience working with ICB, NHS England or regional finance and productivity teams
- Knowledge of NHS costing, PLICS, Model Health System, GIRFT and benchmarking datasets
What’s offered
- On-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries
- Reduced-cost Stagecoach bus travel to the hospital site
- Free Park and Ride and train-station routes between Trust sites
- Subsidised on-site parking for eligible staff
- Hot food available on campus 24/7 at reduced cost
- Staff break space with free tea and coffee at the Deakin Centre
- Flexible working, including part-time, job-share, term-time and flexible start and finish times
- Development opportunities
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