Finance Business Partner

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Knowledge

  Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures and the requirements of the NHS financial regime and the legislative framework within which it operates; underpinned by both theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

• Knowledge

  Awareness of current NHS priorities.

• Knowledge

  Advanced knowledge of financial ledgers and finance software business tools.

• Knowledge

  Knowledge of the NHS Costing Manual and the requirements of the annual Reference Cost exercise.

• Knowledge

  A good understanding of the nature of NHS financial flows, including Payment by Results and its implications for the income of a CSU.

• Knowledge

  Knowledge of common NHS activity information and measures of productivity and awareness of problems and potential shortcomings.

• Knowledge

  Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures.

• Knowledge

  It is essential to have specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial aspects of NHS legislation and NHS finance policies from both a practical application and theoretical knowledge.

• Experience

  Extensive experience in providing impartial detailed financial advice and information to management teams, obtaining engagement and ensuring key financial concepts and issues are clearly understood.

• Experience

  Experience of working in financial management roles including the areas of budget setting and financial planning; financial reporting to business units; detailed use of financial systems to provide and manipulate information; detailed procedures around capital, VAT and research and development.

• Experience

  Experience of the QA of both information and advice given by other colleagues.

• Experience

  Experience of leading cross-cutting projects and collaboration with other stakeholders to improve performance.

• Experience

  Experience of managing staff and delivering finance training.

• Experience

  Extensive experience in providing impartial detailed financial advice and information to management teams to business units.

• Experience

  Experience of working in financial management roles including the areas of budget setting and financial planning; financial reporting.

• Qualifications

  Full Professional Accountancy Qualification (CCAB or CIMA).

• Qualifications

  Full Professional Accountancy qualification (CCAB or CIMA qualified, equivalent to Masters level qualification).

• Qualifications

  5 GCSE/O levels or equivalent, to include Maths and English.

• Other Requirements

  The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority.

• Other Requirements

  The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.

• Other Requirements

  The post holder is required to use a VDU more or less continuously on most days.

• Other Requirements

  The jobholder is frequently required to sit for long periods of time at a VDU in order to work on complicated spread sheets and is required to rapidly and accurately manipulate large volumes of complex financial data into meaningful information/analyses to tight deadlines.

• Other Requirements

  The post holder may at times experience colleagues strongly expressing opposing views to policies and procedures that must be upheld by the Finance Function. This requires staff to have a high degree of self-confidence and personal resilience and the emotional maturity to respond in appropriately measured ways.

• Other Requirements

  The post will have a primary base at SJUH... there will be a need for post holders to work at a site different to their main base, visit external organisations and support a number of different areas/cover for colleague absences.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  An ability to deal with highly complex issues with a wide range of parties including colleagues both finance and non-finance from all levels of seniority up to board level directors and including clinicians.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  These issues may be contentious and sensitive and require appropriate negotiation and persuasion skills needed to convey financial concepts clearly and persuasively, often to large groups of staff.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, including an ability to chair meetings and deliver presentations, conveying complex financial processes and practices so allowing managers to better understand their responsibilities.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  Ability to respond appropriately to challenge within situations in which there are conflicting priorities and strongly expressed opposing views.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  Ability to adapt information to engage a range of stakeholders.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  The ability to negotiate, influence and challenge senior colleagues.

• Communication and Relationship Skills

  Demonstration of effective stakeholder management, with an ongoing commitment to building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and collaborations.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  A preparedness to take responsibility and work autonomously demonstrating a commitment to delivering results, a quality service and delivering at pace.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  A commitment to knowing and understanding the business.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  A customer focus, acknowledging the importance of service quality and the need to add value to customers, monitoring quality and acting upon feedback appropriately.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Creative and innovative, able to propose and develop changes to working practices and procedures to ensure the continual improvement of the services.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Commitment to supporting change and improvement, able to make connections and link pieces of work to maximise the achievement of multiple objectives.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Commitment to reviewing own performance, assessing own strengths and weaknesses, taking corrective action and identifying areas for personal development, with strong commitment to and evidence of continuing professional development.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  The ability to stand up for a personal point of view, even against articulate and powerful opposition.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Commitment to behaving honestly, openly, impartially and fairly.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Able to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, budget holders and other managers, working as part of multidisciplinary teams.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Has adaptive strategies for dealing with colleagues and team members who oppose and challenge the requirements of good corporate governance and the need to meet statutory financial requirements.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  The ability to take responsibility for own workload and being responsible for a range of complex activities, planning ahead taking into account known requirements throughout the financial year, working flexibly, re-assessing priorities and dealing with a range of competing and changing demands, tight deadlines and a frequently pressurised environment.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Commitment to behaving honestly, openly, impartially and fairly in accordance with the Leeds Way Values.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  A confident, pleasant approach, willing to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, budget holders and other managers, working as part of multidisciplinary teams.

• Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values

  Has a personal coping strategy for dealing with colleagues who oppose and challenge the requirements of good corporate governance and the need to meet statutory financial requirements.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  Experience of managing staff and delivering finance training, with knowledge including the techniques, required to lead, motivate, develop and maximise performance of staff.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  Ability to lead support staff, delivering support, coaching, training, organising recruitment activities, appraisals and dealing with disciplinary/absence issues.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  Evidence of commitment to learning and development and continuous improvement, including demonstrating personal continuing professional development.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  Ability to provide training to others on specialist areas of responsibility.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  The ability to manage staff, lead team building, coach and motivate colleagues.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  The ability to secure engagement through an inclusive leadership style and the confidence and ability to challenge, negotiate and influence.

• Leadership, Management and Training Skills

  The ability to secure engagement with well-developed leadership and confident but pleasant communication skills, willing to challenge and be challenged.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, frequently operating in areas of work where there may be a conflict of opinions.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  Ability to plan long term financial targets and organise workloads to deliver against challenging timescales.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  Ability to work autonomously, interpreting and being guided by broad occupational policies and standards.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  Ability to review ways of working, develop and implement policies and procedures and to maintain a consistent approach across the organisation as appropriate.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  Ability to set baseline budgets and forecasts.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  The ability to take responsibility for own workload and being responsible for a range of complex activities.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  The ability to work within an area which requires the post holder to react quickly to the financial requirements of the CSU.

• Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills

  The ability to make effective decisions, making judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, frequently operating in areas of work where there may be a conflict of opinions.