Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 223-SFM-578
- Employer
- The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Shrewsbury Business Park
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2024 23:59
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Finance Manager – Strategic Finance
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Strategic Finance Team as a Finance Manager - Strategic Finance, at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).
We are looking for a forward thinking, highly motivated qualified accountant to take a lead role on the contract income, costing and financial planning requirements of the Trust, working closely with a wide range of people including divisional staff and system partners.
To be considered for this role, you must be able to demonstrate highly developed knowledge, experience and expertise in NHS finance. You must demonstrate your ability to engage and influence at every level of the organisation and have excellent negotiation skills to overcome barriers to understanding arising from the complexity of issues.
Main duties of the job
The full list of duties can be found in the job description, but the main duties would be to take a lead role in ensuring the smooth day to day running of the income and costing team with management responsibility for staff within the team, providing high quality financial leadership to internal and external stakeholders.
The post holder will be expected to develop plans and communicate complex financial information and support the efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and business focus of finance systems and processes within the Finance Directorate.
Working for our organisation
Our two hospitals, The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shrewsbury, provide a wide range of acute hospital services for around half a million people across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales. Together the hospitals have over 700 beds and assessment and treatment trolleys across a variety of services.
Our vision is to provide excellent care for the communities that we serve and now is an exciting time to join us and live our values to ensure we continue to offer the best possible care and keep our patients at the heart of everything we do.
SaTH is a CIMA and ACCA accredited organisation, demonstrating the support we provide to the development of our staff. SaTH has gained FFF (Future Focussed Finance) level two and is working towards level three.
This role will give you the opportunity to be part of this highly committed team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified CCAB accountant
- Participates in continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification experience in a complex organisation
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Expert specialist knowledge of NHS policies - Payment System, Contracting Arrangements and NCC
- Significant proven experience in a leadership/management role (incl staff management)
- Experience of presenting complex financial information to non-finance managers
- Experience of providing financial management advice and guidance to others
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of using specialist financial software, in particular, Oracle Solutions, SLAM and Logex
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Edmonds
- Job title
- Head of Strategic Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
- Telephone
- 01743 492402
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