This senior Trust-wide finance post at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sits in the Finance Directorate. The post holder sets and assures financial governance and control frameworks and checks that major investments match strategic and sustainability goals. It leads senior teams across governance, assurance, systems and technical finance, advising the Trust Board and Audit Committee on sensitive, high-risk matters. A CCAB qualification and substantial experience in a large, complex organisation are essential.
What the job involves
- Provide senior Trust-wide leadership for financial governance, controls, assurance and risk management
- Lead the Finance relationship with internal audit, external audit and counter fraud
- Lead and coordinate the Annual Report and Accounts, with senior oversight of complex technical accounting
- Lead financial oversight of significant business cases, investments and benefits realisation
- Identify and oversee financial value opportunities through accounting, VAT/tax, capital and revenue treatment and balance sheet management
- Lead finance systems, digital enablement, data, controls and business continuity
- Lead and develop teams across financial governance, assurance, systems, investment and technical finance
- Maintain a quantified pipeline of financial value opportunities assessed for compliance, risk and benefit
- Oversee the Value for Money assessment, Management Representation Letter and finance input to external assurance
- Lead financial risk management across Finance, including the Finance risk register
- Challenge assumptions, financial models and benefits claims on complex proposals
- Assess the impact of changes in accounting standards, NHS guidance and VAT or tax requirements
Qualifications
- CCAB qualified accountant with evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
- Substantial senior finance experience in a large and complex organisation
- Demonstrable experience advising senior decision-makers on complex, sensitive or high-risk financial matters
- Experience interpreting complex policy, professional guidance and accounting requirements with significant financial consequence
- Proven leadership and people management, including developing staff and leading across professional or organisational boundaries
Skills & knowledge
- Expert knowledge of financial governance, accounting, internal control, audit and assurance, including across organisational boundaries
- Strong analytical and communication skills, translating complex financial information into advice for senior audiences
- Strong understanding of finance systems, data quality, digital reporting and system controls
Nice to have
- Senior finance experience within an NHS provider organisation
- Experience reporting to or working with Board, Executive or Audit Committee stakeholders
- Experience of investment governance, business case assurance and/or benefits realisation
- Experience of finance systems, digital finance or transformation
- Specialist knowledge or experience of VAT, tax, capital accounting, investment appraisal or financial value optimisation
- Working knowledge of Power BI, automation or AI-enabled financial analysis
- Postgraduate leadership or management qualification
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