Finance Manager

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Management Accounts Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).

LUHFT is one of the UK’s largest trusts, serving a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

Our mission statement is short yet powerful of: by working together we will deliver outstanding healthcare. Collaboration throughout the Trust is central to our mission and the values of the Trust are represented in our excellent finance team with an aim to strive to provide world class financial management and services through great people, great care, great ambition and great innovation. Core to this is our staff, their career journey and development. The current opportunity is for an enthusiastic individual to join our friendly and talented Financial Management Team within the Corporate Division, seizing the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge within a large vibrant Trust and finance department who have won multiple awards in recent years ranging from team of the year to the Havelock award, which recognises best practice in finance skills development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have specific responsibility for providing comprehensive financial management and support to a group of clinical and departmental budgets.

The role will support the site senior financial leadership in providing expertise on all financial matters to the Division

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• To provide financial information and advice to the Divisional General Manager, Clinical Directors and other managers within the relevant Directorates. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be effective.
• To have overall responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monitoring of performance and providing advice on corrective action as necessary. To take a lead role in the Division in annual budget setting process.
• To undertake lead responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of recharging mechanisms to improve budgetary control (e.g. Radiology). To take responsibility for the authorization of specific expenditure within the Directorates (e.g. Works recharges) and the authorization for the advertisement of vacant posts to ensure that funding is available.
• To actively participate in and contribute to the formulation and implementation of the Divisional Business Plans in accordance with the Trust’s strategic aims and objectives. To provide support and advice on financial and non-financial aspects of the Business Plans.
• To provide the Head of Management Accounts with the information necessary to enable corporate reporting. This will include explanation of significant variance movements for inclusion in the Trust Board Report.
• To assist Clinical Directors and Service Managers in identifying and achieving cost improvement and income generation targets, undertaking reviews of all existing practices with the aim of improving efficiency.
• To participate in the development of new costing and budgeting methodologies to provide information for both managerial and commercial purposes.
• To review, for the relevant Directorates, Aintree’s costs relative to national norms and other provider units and establishing verification of significant variations.
• To monitor the service provided by the relevant Directorates to other Trusts in accordance with the Service Level Agreements. To discuss and renegotiate these SLA’s as necessary.
• To take financial responsibility in the competitive tendering process to ensure that best value is achieved. To prepare financial option appraisal reports for presentation to the Trust board incorporating recommendations.
• To assist the Head of Management Accounts in the management and reconciliation of the Trusts reserves.
• To be responsible for the day to day management of the Management Accounts Assistants including identifying training and development requirements and ensuring that personal development plans are in place.
• To be responsible for the recruitment selection and appointment of staff working within the department in accordance with the Trust’s employment policies and procedures and legal requirements.
• To participate in the provision of Financial Awareness Training to non-finance staff within the Trust and to organisations utilizing the Trusts on-site training facilities.

General Responsibilities

• To provide input as required to the Trust’s statutory financial reports.
• To ensure that the Trust’s standing financial instructions and codes of procedures are adhered to at all times.
• To represent the Head of Management Accounts in various internal and external meetings and seminars as and when required.
• To act as a signatory to the Trusts bank mandate schedule to ensure that the appropriate financial controls associated with this process are adhered to.
• To open and acknowledge the receipt of tenders in accordance with the Trust Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions.
• To assist generally in the financial management of the Trust.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.