Job Description

The Finance team is responsible for:

• Providing expert financial advice, technical guidance and decision support to the whole of the Organisation
• Providing transactional processing and analytical services to the whole of Organisation
• Producing the Board's budgets and finance reports, business plans, returns, annual accounts and other statutory returns
• Liaising with Internal and External Audit
• Leading the organisation on corporate governance and financial management issues
• Ensuring a strong and effective internal control environment
• Ensuring the finance systems/procedures meet all statutory requirements and support business needs
• These responsibilities are shared across the 3 sections of the Finance team which are the Finance Shared Service Centre, Finance Business Partnering and Management Information Systems & Analysis
• This Finance Shared Service Centre has a focus on:
• The management and control of all transactional processing (accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury and payroll - including GP's and vocational dental practitioners)
• Production of the Organisations returns, annual accounts and other statutory returns
• Managing the design, implementation and supervision of financial controls to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of systems and processes

Senior Finance Manager
Finance Business Partnering (Finance managers are embedded in the business areas) has a focus on:

• Providing future focussed decision support, technical financial advice and reports to budget holders to enable them to effectively manage expenditure for their area of responsibility and be confident that they are fully complying with relevant accounting standards and legislation
• Building the relationships to effectively challenge and influence Business Decisions, Strategy and Outcomes
• Working with Senior management/budget holders within the Organisations to deliver efficiency savings and improved standards in the way the Organisation operates
• Producing the Board's budgets, finance reports and business plans
• Developing appropriate budgetary systems for the Organisation evaluating all assumptions used in the preparation of budgets and forecasts and assessing associated risks

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities