Job Description

• You will be responsible for providing a comprehensive and effective support service for an operational Business Unit.
• The post holder and their team will be responsible to Business Unit budget setting, financial planning, forecasting, monthly monitoring and reporting within corporate standards and timetables.
• The post holder will work with a high degree of independence and therefore will be required to use their own initiative.
• The post holder will constructively review and improve existing models and processes to achieve efficiencies.
• To plan and organize the month end procedures with the Head of Financial Management and work closely with them to deliver reports that are timely and consistent, ensuring delegation of tasks as appropriate.
• To support the annual budget setting process for all services within a Business Unit, in line with the Trust's timetable.
• This includes identifying and quantifying service developments, cost pressures, cost improvement programmes to support the objectives identified in the Business Unit's annual plan.
• To monitor achievement of cost improvement plans and identify any deviation from plans, developing a range of options to deal with any such deviation.
• To support the Operational managers and Head of Financial Management in identifying opportunities for the service development and the production of business cases.
• To identify options to improve the efficient delivery of services and therefore influence the content and achievement of Cost Improvement Plans across the Trust to deliver the five year plan.
• To ensure that accurate and up-to-date establishment records are kept, to ensure pay expenditure remains within budgeted establishments.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities