Director of Finance (Operational)

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Practical Skills

  Proven ability to lead and motivate a large, diverse team

• Practical Skills

  Track record in change management including organisational, systems implementation, working practices

• Practical Skills

  Excellent relationship building skills. Good networker

• Practical Skills

  Highly developed written and oral communication skills including report writing and detailed correspondence

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  Influencing and negotiating skills

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  Ability to convey complex information which is understood by the target audience

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  Effective organisation and time management skills

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  Strong presentational skills

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  Complex problem solving, decision making and analytical skills

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  Ability to engage non-financial and professional staff in key financial issues

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  Ability to work autonomously

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  IT literate and ability to work competently with Microsoft Office, Teams and other tools. Good spreadsheet skills

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  Highly visible leader

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  Inclusive style. Fair and impartial but sensitive

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  Leads by example

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  Strong team player

• Practical Skills

  Demonstrates clear commitment to service delivery and quality

• Practical Skills

  Reviews own performance, learns and corrects where necessary

• Behaviours/Skills

  Accept responsibility and accountability for own actions and decisions

• Behaviours/Skills

  Take responsibility for own learning and development and share learning and knowledge with others.

• Behaviours/Skills

  Using resources available in an effective, efficient and timely manner having proper regard to the best interests of the Trust.

• Behaviours/Skills

  Respect and confidentiality.

• Behaviours/Skills

  Seek to ensure that no-one is unlawfully discriminated against.

• Behaviours/Skills

  Ensure that staff are helped to maintain and improve their knowledge and skills and achieve their full potential

• Behaviours/Skills

  Ensure that judgements about colleagues (including appraisals and references) are consistent, fair and unbiased and are properly founded.

• Behaviours/Skills

  Development and maintenance of effective partnership working

• Behaviours/Skills

  Act at all times in a manner that demonstrates a positive role model building credibility through achievements, ability and performance

• Behaviours/Skills

  Demonstrates commitment to working as a team by working to create an environment in which leadership is encouraged and developed at all levels.

• Other Requirements

  A strong personal desire to support and improve patient care

• Other Requirements

  Personal integrity

• Other Requirements

  Emotional intelligence and empathy

• Other Requirements

  Politically astute

• Qualifications and Training

  CCAB qualified

• Qualifications and Training

  Master’s degree in leadership or management or relevant subject or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level.

• Qualifications and Training

  Evidence of commitment to personal and continuous professional development

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Extensive experience of leadership role in Finance in large organisation including support to board, committees and executive directors

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experienced in contributing to strategic financial plans

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Expert knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures and the requirements of the NHS financial regime and the legislative framework within which it operates

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Awareness and understanding of current NHS priorities and an advanced practical and theoretical knowledge of NHS legislation and development agendas

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Extensive experience in providing impartial detailed financial advice and information to multi-disciplinary clinical and other management teams, obtaining engagement and ensuring key financial concepts and issues are clearly understood

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Advanced knowledge of financial ledgers and finance software business tools

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Senior level experience in a complex organisation or system on a large scale

• Special Knowledge including experience

  A track record of owning and leading financial programmes of change including outcome improvement and cost reduction

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience of working as a finance leader and implementing budgets in association with operational and workforce challenges

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Extensive financial management experience gained within a Finance Department at a senior management level which has included experience of: A range of accounting areas and use of financial systems; Working autonomously and undertaking leadership responsibilities; Inspiring confidence and developing highly effective working relationships with finance, clinical and other non-finance colleagues, providing high quality advice; Leading successful projects or work-streams and achieving change, working in a business partnership with others; Constructively challenging information and assumptions; Presenting highly complex financial and non-financial information, including the delivery of formal presentations and leading financial discussions at meetings; Leading and managing finance teams with demonstrable success

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience of designing finance skills training resources and delivering finance training.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience of leading high impact transformation cross cutting change projects within a complex environment

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience of briefing and presenting to Board level, Executives and other senior officers

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience of delivering complex and contentious WRP

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Leading successful programmes or work-streams and achieving change, working in a business partnership with others

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Strong experience of co-ordinating programmes in complex and challenging environments

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience in interpreting national policies, regulatory and legislative changes to advise directors, prepare organisational policies and influence decisions

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Analytical skills and judgements involving a range of highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options to determine a way forward where no precedent exists or options conflict.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  As a member of the Senior Finance team you will develop the Trust’s strategic direction and contribute to the overall leadership, direction and management of the Trust.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  You will be expected to provide a strong professional finance service to support business plans across a number of teams and functions.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Formulating long-term, strategic plans, which involve uncertainty and which may impact across the whole organisation.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Decision making that demonstrates sound judgement and an ability to accept decisions made by others.

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Knowledge of procurement processes

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Knowledge of PFI accounting

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Understanding of NHS finance regime, wider NHS agenda and current issues

• Special Knowledge including experience

  Experience of providing expert advice to Trust Board, Directors, Audit Committee etc.