Finance Business Partner - Projects (fixed term six months)

Job overview

As Finance Business Partner you will be joining a multifaceted provider organisation and leading the development of a dynamic financial management and business partnering team towards a world class finance function fit for the future.

You will be part of a customer focused team who delivers the day-to-day financial management responsibility of the Trust.

Building on the success of the team and your exemplary leadership skills, you will contribute to the continuous development of the business partnering team aimed at creating a fluid, confident, coherent, and skilled workforce that embraces change, embed the financial culture and provide the financial leadership through all levels of the organisation.

Main duties of the job

• To provide financial leadership across the Trust's Care Groups to support delivery of the Trust's Financial Plan.

• To provide long and medium term strategic and operational management advice to the Care Groups and support a Care Group level LTFM (Long Term Financial Plan) and monthly analysis of the underlying financial position and run rate for business planning purposes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Promote a modern and collaborative approach to engaging clinicians in financial management. Ensuring the Associate Medical Director and the Associate Nursing Director are actively part of strategic business planning and long-term financial modelling for a sustainable service.
• Work collaboratively with clinicians and management teams using benchmarking and Service Level Reporting (SLR) to support the development of effective and efficient clinical pathways and significant service and care model changes. Demonstrating efficiency for key national reporting requirements

• Provide expert advice on highly complex, sensitive and often contentious information to the Care Group on any change in local or external NHS policy or external reporting requirements, legislative changes or opportunities and risks that may have an impact on the directorate's financial performance.  For example; development of strategic transformational schemes across NHS footprints.

• Research and network effectively to ensure the post holder's knowledge and awareness of the impact of local and external policy changes and opportunities and  risks is maximized.

• Support training programmes across all areas of financial and business activities tailored to the requirements of Care Group colleagues. With expert advice on the financial elements of Business Cases and service developments.