Job Description

This is a great opportunity for individuals looking to progress to the next level in their careers, and be part of a visionary organization with a finance structure designed to provide opportunity for further growth and development. This would be an opportunity for someone to come in and make their mark on a newly created directorate. We support flexibility to work remotely for part of the working week.
We look forward to receiving your application.
The post holder will: 

• Lead a team of management accountants to provide highly complex strategic financial and business advice across two or more directorates. This will include providing formal complex financial and business presentations to large groups of non-finance/business staff conveying financial concepts in a clear and persuasive way.
• Analyze highly complex problems relating to business cases and make judgments on financial and business decisions relating to the allocation of finances.
• Plan and organize the work of the Management Accounts Team with key stakeholders in Directorates to deliver complex integrated monitoring and analysis across finance, costing, service line reporting, clinical and patient activity systems. Monitor and adjust strategies to meet the needs of stakeholders.
• Ensure that finance and business reports and analyses meet the Trust’s financial, performance, legal and statutory requirements.
• Ensure the efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of finance and business systems and processes to provide high quality data and information.
• Make a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust’s long and short term business planning processes. Co-ordinate the work of business managers, budget managers and other staff in order to achieve this objective.
• Develop and strengthen working relationships with key stakeholders, developing financial and business strategy within directorates. Explain and present highly complex financial and business concepts and strategies to directors and other senior colleagues.
• Provide comprehensive high quality financial and business across the Trust, making a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust’s long and short term business planning processes.
• Manage and co-ordinate the work of a team of management accountants to ensure that monthly income and expenditure and information reports are produced in accordance with Trust timetables and procedures.
• Initiate service and system enhancements to meet changing customer demand.
• Devise best practice principles and implement these throughout the department.
• Prepare the Trust’s monthly and annual financial and business information report ensuring that the information produced is complete and correct and that trends and variances are investigated and evaluated.
• Provide highly complex financial and business information and advice to budget and service managers to enable them to manage resources efficiently and effectively.
• Monitor financial and business performance and suggests service improvements where appropriate.
• Monitor achievement of cost improvement plans.
• Provide highly complex analysis of financial information and projects, investigates, interprets and compares activity, trends and variances.
• Provide regular financial management training to managers.
• Develop highly complex financial and activity reports for use within the department and throughout the Trust.
• Plan and co-ordinate the work of others in order to achieve departmental objectives.
• Prepare financial and activity schedules for the Trust’s annual plan and statutory accounts, analyzing and interpreting these as required.
• Prepare financial and activity schedules for the Trust’s statutory accounts, analyzing and interpreting these as required. Ensure that these present a true and fair vies of the Trust’s financial position.
• Develop sophisticated costing models to facilitate the business planning process.
• Calculate the cost of new and existing services and products using a variety of different techniques and methodologies.
• Train colleagues to make the best use of all financial and business information systems.
• Contribute towards the development of existing and new financial and business information systems.
• Manage, lead, motivate and develop a team of management accountants.
• Responsible for carrying out staff appraisals in accordance with the Trust’s Personal Development Review (PDR) process.
• Assist in the recruitment and development of high quality permanent and temporary management accounting and finance staff.
• Plan and organize the team’s workload to achieve departmental and organizational objectives.
• Deputies for the Associate Director – Financial Management and Planning.
• Liaise with directors and business managers to ensure that the service provided by the management accounts team meets their requirements.
• Deliver regular Financial and Business Information management training to managers throughout the Trust.
• Analyze and interpret national policy, directives and guidelines and advises on their financial and business effect.
• Recommend changes and improvements to financial policies both within own section and throughout the whole finance department.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities