Manager, Finance and Planning Business Partnering

Job overview

The Primary Care, Community Services, Vaccinations and Screening Finance and Planning Business Partnering team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for a Finance Manager.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS. We:

• work closely with government to agree NHS funding;
• ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget;
• decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;
• support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;
• set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;
• report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;
• explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;
• look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.
• consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.

As a Finance Manager, you will work as the bridge between the project and programme teams in NHS England’s directorates and the specialist finance teams to produce high-quality financial reporting and advice that drives value for money and improves patient care. This role will specifically focus on supporting the Vaccination and Screening directorate.

Main duties of the job

The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.

Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for. Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.

The main duties of the role will include:

• Developing and producing information to support accurate and timely monthly and annual financial performance reports for presentation at programme meetings and to feed into the Directorate’s position for corporate reporting, with the information interpreted in a way that supports internal decision-making from finance and non-finance colleagues
• Producing robust and complete financial forecasting and identification of risks and opportunities for assigned budget areas
• Developing in-depth understanding of policy and operational plans and provide high quality business advice for the assigned budget areas within vaccination and screening services
• Provide financial analysis to support on value for money assessments and business case development
• Building strong relationships with colleagues to enable delivery of key responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Interested in applying and want to find out more about our team and the work we do?

Please email Ben Ackland on ben.ackland@nhs.net if you would like to discuss