Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 241-629CD-24
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bolton NHS FT
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Finance - Financial Planning
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a dynamic finance professional to join the Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as the Associate Director of Finance – Financial Planning.
About the Role: As the Associate Director of Finance – Financial Planning, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Trust management with a comprehensive range of financial information essential for key decision-making. Your responsibilities will include providing information for the inclusion in the monthly management accounts and consolidating these into Board level and external reports. Working closely with the Head of Financial Services and the Head of Information, you will be a key and visible leader within the finance department and a primary contact both internally and externally.
Note: This role is being advertised for an extended period to compensate for prebooked holidays and ensure interested candidates are not placed at a disadvantage over the school summer holiday period. Interviews will take place in September.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Trust’s annual financial planning process, combining income and expenditure plans while ensuring alignment with workforce and activity plans.
- Oversee the Trust’s annual national cost collection submissions and manage the Trust’s managed service for costing.
- Develop and maintain internal productivity metrics to provide continuous updates on value for money and identify areas for improvement.
- Promote financial awareness and skills at all levels through finance workshops and regular financial briefings to Executive Directors and senior staff.
- Work closely with the Divisional Management Teams and the Business Intelligence function to ensure accurate and understandable financial information and advice.
- Manage the contracts with Integrated Care Board (ICB), Provider Collaborative, and wider system partners.
- Provide leadership to the Overseas Team, responsible for recovering charges for NHS treatment from individuals not ordinarily resident in the UK.
Working for our organisation
Join Our Team: If you are enthusiastic, motivated, and have the expertise to provide effective and innovative financial solutions, we want to hear from you. Join us at an exciting time as we strive to build a 'best-in-class' finance department, providing excellent financial and decision-making support to our operational and clinical colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder is responsible for providing a comprehensive range of financial information to support the Trust management in making key decisions. This includes provision of information for the inclusion in the monthly management accounts for consolidation into Board level and external reports. This will be completed through working closely with the Head of Financial Services and the Head of Information.
The post holder is a key and visible leader and manager within the finance department and key point of contact, both internally and externally.
This is a key management role where considerable autonomy is given to interpret national and local policies, guidance and accounting standards.
Chair of Finance department systems group, ensuring continual modernisation and improvement of finance systems
To provide a comprehensive financial management and support service to the Trust, providing a range of advice concerning income, planning, PLICs and financial systems
To take lead responsibility for the Trust’s annual financial planning process combing income, expenditure plans ensuring triangulation with workforce and activity plans whilst adhering to corporate standards and timetables
Responsible for annual national cost collection submissions, managing the Trust’s managed service for costing
Develop and maintain a suite of internal productivity metrics which are updated each month to provide continuous updates on value for money and areas for improvement
Takes the lead on developing PLICs data including driving engagement, securing clinical input and education and training
To support of the Deputy Director of Operational Finance to ensure the Trust makes effective use of the available financial resources in pursuit of agreed Divisional and Corporate goals.
To deputise for the Deputy Director of Finance as appropriate.
To be responsible for the day-to-day management of Income accountant, Head of Costing and Systems Accountant
Ensure that the trusts values are at the heart of all decisions made and behaviours displayed.
To actively engage and take a lead with Trust’s Finance Staff Development (FSD) and Future Focused Finance (FFF) Lead, liaising with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and other National FSD/FFF Leads, ensuring that an effective, efficient and customer focused finance service is provided to the organisation.
Provide leadership to the Overseas Team, who are members of the finance team responsible recovering charges for NHS treatment in relation to any person who is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB / CIMA Qualified Accountant
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters’ Degree level or equivalent, or extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have extensive (3 years minimum) post qualification experience in a senior role, working as a senior manager within a complex finance department, with significant experience of financial management or income accounting
- Significant experience of working with operational managers and clinicians, and supporting decision making through provision of accurate, timely management information.
- Experience of leading / managing staff.
- Ability to provide and present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to gain co-operation and commitment from large and diverse groups of clinicians, managers and staff.
Desirable criteria
- Expert knowledge of PbR, PLICS and Reference costs
- Experience of both NHS Income systems and processes and of participating in NHS contract negotiating.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Proven influencing and negotiating skills at organisational and personal levels.
- Excellent analytical, reasoning and problem solving skills. Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering deadlines and service on time for self and teams.
- Experience of implementing improvements to computerised financial systems.
- Ability to operate effectively in an environment where there is uncertainty and ambiguity.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Will Griffiths
- Job title
- Director @ Seymour John
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07818 693596
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