Finance Business Partner

CY Executive Resourcing are supporting a Southeast based NHS organisation, in their search for a Finance Business Partner post, to provide leadership for the performance management of all financial activities, across the divisions. The successful post holder will provide an outward facing, high quality, and customer focused Finance Business Partnering service to the Trust divisions. You will provide financial information that is robust and accurate and to be able to explain, discuss, recommend, persuade/influence and prioritise required actions to budget managers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the annual budgetary cycle, using specialist knowledge and expert systems resulting in the establishment of a robust approved financial plan.
• Ensure that all assumptions contained within the business plans have been constructively challenged and potential risks and further opportunities are high-lighted and quantified.
• Ensure that all customers receive robust, accurate and clear financial information, ensuring that budgets set reflect the cost of delivering contracted services and other agreed performance targets.
• Monitor and review forecasts and ensure that plans are adequately implemented and monitored from the start of each year, and to ensure a consistent approach for new plans developed during the year.
• Maintain a detailed schedule of normalising adjustments to ensure the underlying trend analysis and year-on-year comparison can be clearly reported.
• Manage the provision of financial management information, analysis and advice to the leadership and management team and other senior staff throughout the organisation.
• Ensure that all reporting is produced in line with the monthly/quarterly/ annually financial timetable.
• Lead on the year-end financial management processes and timetable, assisting with audit and regulator enquiries, and providing timely information professionally and on request
• Lead the planning and reporting of the Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs) and ensure that schemes have been fully evaluated, quality impact assessed and can be tracked.
• Work closely with directorate leads and colleagues to ensure savings are captured, monitored, forecast and deliverable to plans through monthly/weekly controls. (lead on the report risks to the board with mitigations/proposals)
• Develop and maintain benchmark information.

• Responsible for the line management and performance management of direct report, including staff recruitment, development, training, annual appraisals/objectives, PDP’s, performance and capability management, professional study and/or CPD requirements and induction for new team members.
• To be the finance lead for developing business cases, ensuring that all costs, benefits, income, and expenditure have been identified and understood.

It is essential you hold a recognised CCAB qualification, that you have strong negotiation and influencing skills, and that you can operate in a complex environment.

This is a hybrid role, requiring some onsite working in the Southeast region.

For further information including a full job description or a confidential discussion, please contact Stephanie Tasker.