This senior finance post leads the costing function within Group Finance for the BSW Hospitals Group, a partnership across three NHS trusts. The work centres on national cost collection, patient-level costing and service line reporting, and using that costing data to inform productivity analysis and benchmarking. The postholder line manages the Costing team and leads costing systems and digital reporting, though it does not carry productivity reporting in its own right. Fit depends on a CCAB or CIMA qualification and experience of NHS costing.
What the job involves
- Lead the development of the Group costing framework, policies, methodologies, controls and governance across all BSW Hospitals Group organisations
- Provide expert interpretation of national costing guidance and oversee compliance with mandatory costing requirements
- Lead and coordinate national costing submissions, meeting national cost collection deadlines with Informatics, service managers and Finance
- Oversee the development and maintenance of costing systems and lead new methodologies and digital solutions
- Lead continuous improvement of service line reporting and patient-level costing, challenging complex source data
- Establish costing steering and assurance groups to develop the use of costing information for productivity analysis
- Ensure costing and service line data is rolled out and used across the Group for decision-making, cost improvement and national initiatives
- Provide professional leadership to the Costing team, including line management, workforce planning, performance management and staff development
- Represent the Group in regional and national costing networks and contribute to best practice
- Support internal and external assurance reviews and keep data flows, processes and reporting resilient and fit for purpose
- Build relationships with senior clinicians, managers and external stakeholders, and provide specialist training and advice
- Improve the use of data and digital tools, including Power BI, to strengthen costing analysis and benchmarking
Qualifications
- CCAB or CIMA qualification
- Significant post-qualification experience in a senior finance role
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
- Experience of NHS costing, including the National Cost Collection, and of using costing information to support productivity analysis and improvement
- Experience of costing and computerised accounting systems
- Proven record of strong performance and development
- Experience of managing staff, including objective-setting and training
Nice to have
- HFMA membership
- Acute NHS experience
- Awareness of the current NHS agenda and challenges
- Experience of management, cost and financial accounting in a large, complex organisation
- Experience of working with external costing partners, system suppliers or benchmarking organisations
- Knowledge of NHS payment mechanisms, tariffs and clinical coding
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