Head of Finance – Corporate / R&D

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, highly motivated, enthusiastic professional to work in a high profile role within the Finance Department of St George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate will be the finance lead for the R&D and Corporate divisions with a turnover of £260m, the role covers providing financial services for the Trust executives and managers within Estates and facilities. The role also includes being the financial lead for research and development working closely with City St George’s University.  The role has management responsibility of the two divisional finance teams (R&D and Corporate). The Head of Finance is the day to day contact for the Trust executive team on budget and planning relating to their own budgets.

This is an exciting time to join the finance team at St George’s, as the department looks to enhance the service it provides the Trust to aid decision making against the backdrop of needing to reduce corporate costs. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to provide financial support to high profile projects within the Trust, within a challenging but supportive environment.

Candidates must have worked within a complex and rapidly changing environment preferably with previous experience of NHS finances. Exceptional communication skills are a must to allow effective communication with a broad spectrum of stakeholders including executive directors, clinicians and staff of all levels.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of the areas outlined above

• He/she will provide leadership and play a key role in developing the policy and framework for these areas and ensuring policies are communicated and applied appropriately across the Trust

• He/she will direct, motivate and manage the team and play a key role in developing their skills and working with other senior finance colleagues to ensure the finance function overall provides high quality, professional financial support to the Trust that meets the needs of the business

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide management accounting support to operational leads in R&D and Corporate areas, including CIP development, costing, benchmarking and other areas.
• To liaise with SGUL on R&D joint relationship, to support with grants and awards as and when required. To business partner the R&D function to expand R&D income and deliver margin on commercial activities.
• To support the HOF FM on analytical review of Corporate spend and WTE, to support national spend control of corporate services.
• To deliver the financial planning input to the annual business planning process- supporting budget setting, establishment review and costing, WTE analysis and CIP development
• To liaise with HOF FM on consistency of reporting with ESTH in view of group structure and Corporate ‘site’ reporting moving forward.