Job requirements
Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Substantive experience in the production and reporting of budgets, forecasts and management accounts
- Skills
Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office, notably Excel to intermediate level
- Skills
Strong analytical, problem solving and critical reasoning skills.
- Experience
Significant experience, working in management accounting.
- Experience
Previous experience of monitoring budgets and variance analysis
- Experience
Experience of preparing monthly accounts including variance analysis, accruals and prepayments, and forecasting
- Experience
Experience of managing employees
- Qualifications
CCAB Intermediate or Finalist or equivalent
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
This will include communication with people with non-financial backgrounds
- Experience
Previous experience of working within the NHS, preferably within an NHS Foundation Trust.
- Experience
Experience in the use of E-Financials software packages.
- Experience
Experience in the use of Business Objects
- Experience
Experience of developing activity, income and expenditure forecasts, including the modelling of different scenario
Job overview
Finance Business Associate
- NHS Agenda for Change, Band 6 £37,338-£44,962
- Full time - 37.5hrs per week
- Based at Crawley HQ (with travel across the Trust)
An exciting opportunity to join a busy NHS Ambulance Service in our Finance Team as a Finance Business Associate to provide specialist finance and business advice, guidance and support to a range of Operations Managers and clinicians, assisting the Finance Business Partners in delivering a robust operational and financial management whilst improving cost effectiveness.
We may close this role early if we receive a high number of applications so we advise you to apply ASAP.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will ensure the provision of an accurate and timely finance and management accounting information service to senior Finance managers. Provision of a finance information service to budget holders and maintenance of the Trust’s budgetary systems.
Responsible for supporting and assisting clinicians and business managers in redesigning services to improve the quality of care and patient experience in a financially sustainable manner.
The FBA will be responsible for assisting the Finance Business Partner in providing financial support to the senior Finance team and budget holders to achieve financial control and effective budget management and to facilitate the delivery of the Trust’s financial targets.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for
- Assisting the FBP in providing financial support to the senior Finance team and budget holders to achieve financial control and effective budget management and to facilitate the delivery of the Trust’s financial targets
- Ensuring accurate and timely monthly management accounting information is produced and clearly reported, with the key income and expenditure variances appropriately analysed and presented in a user-friendly manner so that the senior Finance team can effectively evaluate financial performance
- Identifying potential business opportunities, appraising and evaluating the factors which may impact on decision making and recommending strategies for adoption.
- Translation and realisation of clinical strategies and annual objectives through strategic financial plans and annual budgets. This will include continuous improvement in safety, effectiveness, patient experience and operational efficiency.
- Ensure effective, rigorous and complete in-year delivery of the business unit financial plan which maximises the scope for further investment and development opportunities.
- Proactively develop specific plans and supporting detail to drive the support needed from all parts of the Finance Directorate and other corporate functions.
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This advert is for Finance Business Associate with South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust in Crawley, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £37,338 - £44,962 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Apr 2025.
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