Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-SE-6807553-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any South East NHS England Office
- Town
- South East Region
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Finance Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
As a Senior Finance Analyst, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the South East Finance Team Sector/Area to exercise effective strategic and professional leadership of the NHS Finance function in the Region.
Main duties of the job
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Key Functional Responsibilities
Project Management
- Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas.
- Provide coordination of and participate in relevant working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested.
- Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio.
- Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
- Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and the resolution and escalation processes.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will support the Head of Department and their team to ensure that their work stream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
- Manage the team’s business support function, including developing and managing the team’s business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management.
- Making a key contribution to the budget setting and planning process of Regional Office (South East) NHS England/ NHS Improvement covering the post holder’s area of responsibility;
- Provide support to the financial reporting team in the delivery of month end deadlines, quarterly reporting and preparation for year-end accounting and reporting.
- Liaise with appropriate functions within the regions, organisation and the Sector.
- Manage all corporate business returns, including planning and workforce returns.
- Develop and implement a content management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, Directorate and the wider NHS organisation.
- Provide and enhance current management information and reporting for the Senior Finance Manager / Head of Reporting for input into any reports for the Regional Directors to enhance decision making processes
- To carry out complex and detailed analysis for budget holders. Supporting the Senior Finance Manager/ Head of Reporting in any project work
- Monitor and track risks and issues arising from the financial information and proactively escalated/resolve.
- Take a lead in the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the team.
- Oversight and management of all aspects of the team/ project budgets.
- Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.
Please see the attached Job Description for further details on the role, responsibilities and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Working towards a CCAB qualification
Knowledge and experience of relevant NHS Reporting
Essential criteria
- NHS financial reporting experience
Desirable criteria
- Recent relevant experience working within a finance environment, working in a complex area
Excel, Skills, Capabilities, and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Excel experience - intermediate level of knowledge required.
- Strong competency of a range of functions
Desirable criteria
- Advanced knowledge and experience of using range of complex functions in relation to large datasets.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Max Lai
- Job title
- Heading of Reporting and Analysis - SE
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07887384987
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