Description
My client are a leading public sector healthcare organisation based in the Midlands.
Currently we seek to recruit a Finance Business Partner on a contractual basis to join the growing team.
Job purpose
- Responsible for providing financial management support and challenge to a number of clinical and non-clinical services, including the provision of monthly departmental finance reports in a standard format.
- Deputise for the Senior Finance Business Partner as necessary.
- Liaise with the contracting, income and performance teams to appropriately report and forecast the impact of activity, quality (CQUIN/QIPP) and contracting issues.
- Accurately forecast monthly income and expenditure for the year and prepare budgets for future years taking into account changes in the cost structure and service provision.
- Work with budget holders and members of the Business Development Unit to ensure business cases receive an appropriate level of financial input, validation and challenge.
- Challenge budget holders to identify CIP schemes which deliver real cash savings, thereby improving efficiency, underpinned by the provision of financial due diligence to schemes.
Key Responsibilities/Duties
- Design, create and maintain an appropriate suite of management reports to be distributed to relevant budget holders, requiring visionary expertise in the creation of innovative reporting hierarchies and formats.
- Maintain appropriate ledger hierarchies in accordance with the organisational structure
- Support individual budget holders in the analysis, maintenance and control of budgets
- Support the Senior Finance Business Partner in ensuring costing requirements are achieved
- Take an active role in the process of setting annual budgets,
- Maintain adequate controls to ensure financial information on ledger systems is validated to source data and is representative of the income, cash and balance sheet position of the Trust and in accordance with agreed accounting Policies.
- Provide advice, support and challenge to non-financial budget holders in respect of business plans, development bids and around financial probity issues relating to extremely complex areas of operation.
- Produce a detailed monthly finance forecast position, to be included within monthly finance reporting, using a standard format and methodology, for inclusion in the Trust-wide monthly finance report.