Job summary
- Main area
- Financial Services & Accounting
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 040-AC271-0724
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Currently Mamhilad - moving to Cwmbran
- Town
- Pontypool/Cwmbran
- Salary
- £51,706 - £58,210 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Head of Financial Services
Band 8a
We encourage applications from those who consider themselves to have a disability and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a Assistant Head of Financial Services within our Corporate Finance Department working as part of the Financial Accounting Team, currently based in Mamhilad, Pontypool, with a base change to just outside Cwmbran in the near future.
This role will be responsible for the Treasury Management and Accounts Receivable functions and will be the strategic lead on VAT within the Health Board. The successful applicant will be the lead account management/liaison post with the out sourced Accounts Payable function, have responsibility for the No Purchase Order No Pay invoice holds and Freedom of Information requests received within the department. The successful applicant will also be required to assist with the completion of the monthly monitoring returns to Welsh Government and the Statutory Annual Accounts and to continually develop the current systems in place to manage the Welsh NHS/Local Authority arbitration process.
We are seeking a self-motivated, enthusiastic and numerate individual with excellent IT skills. You will be required to work as part of a team and on your own initiative and must be able to demonstrate effective communication skills. Detailed knowledge of HMRC NHS VAT rules is desirable for this position.
For an informal discussion please email Estelle Evans, Head of Financial Services and Accounting, [email protected] or Gareth Lewis, Assistant Head of Financial Services, [email protected] providing your contact details.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a senior Finance professional within the Aneurin Bevan UHB. The post holder will be expected to:
- Be a member of the Finance Senior Team and is responsible for leading and delivering the Accounts Receivable and Treasury Management function within the HB.
- Ensure the delivery of an efficient and effective service and will develop these functions to be best in class and deliver full assurance in our core financial system audit of these functions.
- Lead on developing standard operating procedures for the areas of responsibility ensuring compliance, with any system weaknesses being quickly addressed and resolved. The post holder will be the main point of contact for providing VAT advice and expertise ensuring full VAT compliance by the HB.
- Be the main point of contact within financial services for all Freedom of Information requests and for leading on all Accounts Payable issues between the Health Board and NWSSP.
- Lead in certain aspects of the completion of the monthly monitoring return information and statutory annual accounts ensuring that financial reporting standards are interpreted and fully met in order to ensure an unqualified audit opinion.
- Provide vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the overall finance agenda.
- Provides direct support to the Head of Financial Services and Accounting and will be required to deputies in their absence.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Fully qualified CCAB accountant
- Relevant post qualified experience working at a senior level
- Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent demonstrable level of work experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of working at a senior level in a large complex organisation.
- Experience of planning and implementing long-term strategy
- Proven track record of successfully introducing service improvement or successful management of significant organisational change in a complex environment.
- Experience of working with staff, their representatives and trade unions/professional organisations
- Participation in significant change management projects
- Ability to influence at all levels and a highly strategic thinker
- Substantial experience of Treasury and Accounts receivable delivering high quality information to challenging deadlines.
- Able to demonstrate experience of working in a customer focused manner.
- High degree of knowledge of generally accepted accounting practices.
- Experience of using Oracle financials and iProcurement system (or a similar system)
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and appropriately present often highly complex information.
- Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines.
- Sound judgment, decision making, and organisational skills.
- Able to interpret legislation, national guidance as appropriate to the role.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen.
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive.
- Self-motivated and committed to developing self and team members.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of the team to operate effectively.
- Advanced IT skills, including Windows and Microsoft products.
- Ability to empower, coach and support staff.
- Ability to absorb and understand issues quickly
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable.
Other
Essential criteria
- Self-aware with high levels of interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated, proactive and innovative
- Commitment to achieving high standards.
- Politically astute with high level of intuition.
- Flexible with an appetite for hard work and challenges
- Show resilience, stamina and reliability under sustain pressure, never losing sight of objectives.
- High levels of personal integrity
- Independently mobile to meet the requirements of the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Estelle Evans
- Job title
- Head of Financial Services and Accounting
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01495 765421
- Additional information
Gareth Lewis - Assistant Head of Financial Services
01495 765421
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