Senior Finance Officer Band 4

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity to join the Swansea Bay University Health Board Finance Team, as part of the Operational Finance Team (OFT).

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team responsible for providing financial advice across the Health Board to support budgetary control and management processes.

We are looking to recruit dynamic, forwarding thinking individual, who wants to change and improve the way things are done within the Team and provide a first class service for the NHS. The Department is looking to encourage and support individuals in their development either through on the job learning and rotating through various part of the team to gain experience and/or through supporting formal accountancy qualifications.

Agile Working

We recognise the need to develop modern working practices to enable our employees to maximise their performance and productivity whilst maintaining a good work life balance and so have adopted an Agile working methodology support by the Health Board Home Working Policy and the Departments Agile Working approach.

Agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Department but there are options for those that would prefer to be office based. Please talk to the recruiting manager about what this means in practice for you if you have any concerns.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Finance Officer is an integral part of the Operational Finance Team (OFT) and assists in the provision of financial support, advice and information, including budgetary control, management and reconciliation processes, ensuring it is completed in both a timely and robust manner.

The role provides dual support to both the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) teams, Service Groups/Corporate Directorates, and the OFT. Provides the day to day administration and maintenance of the monthly financial reporting process in accordance with Health Board Financial Control Procedures (FCP’s) and Standing Financial Instructions (SFI’s)

Accurately and regularly performs required delegated monthly closedown processes, in line with the month end timetable and pro-actively undertakes required maintenance to income, expenditure and budgets within financial ledger, in accordance with FCPs and SFIs. Contributes to the monitoring of performance against delegated budgets, by analysing and reporting on expenditure variances, liaising with delegated budget holders and the FBP Team, to inform the month end financial position.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a detailed outline of the job requirements.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.