Senior Finance Manager

Job overview

Lead a team of management accountants to provide highly complex strategic financial and business advice across two or more directorates. This will include providing formal complex financial and business presentations to large groups of non-finance/business staff conveying financial concepts in a clear and persuasive way.

Main duties of the job

• Analyse highly complex problems relating to business cases and make judgements on financial and business decisions relating to the allocation of finances.
• Plan and organise the work of the Management Accounts Team with key stakeholders in Directorates to deliver complex integrated monitoring and analysis across finance, costing, service line reporting, clinical and patient activity systems. Monitor and adjust strategies to meet the needs of stakeholders.
• Ensure that finance and business reports and analyses meet the Trust’s financial, performance, legal and statutory requirements.
• Ensure the efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of finance and business systems and processes to provide high quality data and information.
• Make a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust’s long- and short-term business planning processes. Co-ordinate the work of business managers, budget managers and other staff in order to achieve this objective.
• Prepare the Trust’s income and expenditure accounts in accordance with monthly and annual timetables and ensure that the information produced is complete and correct.
• Work autonomously within professional and NHS guidelines, interpreting and acting on this interpretation as appropriate.
• Take a proactive approach to developing own skills and experience and that of others

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Develop and strengthen working relationships with key stakeholders, developing financial and business strategy within directorates. Explain and present highly complex financial and business concepts and strategies to directors and other senior colleagues.
• Provide comprehensive high quality financial and business across the Trust, making a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust’s long and short term business planning processes.
• Manage and co-ordinate the work of a team of management accountants to ensure that monthly income and expenditure and information reports are produced in accordance with Trust timetables and procedures.
• Initiate service and system enhancements to meet changing customer demand.
• Devise best practice principles and implement these throughout the department.
• Prepare the Trust’s monthly and annual financial and business information report ensuring that the information produced is complete and correct and that trends and variances are investigated and evaluated.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.