Job Description

Overview

A NHS Trust in the South East requires a Interim Head of Financial Management for up to 6 months to start ASAP. The role offers hybrid working. You must be CCAB Qualified for this opportunity and have previous NHS Finance experience at the relevant level.

Key requirements:

• The role holder provides leadership for the performance management of all financial activities across Trust divisions.
• To provide an outward facing, high quality and customer focused Finance Business partnering service to the trust divisions and departments.
• To provide financial information that is robust and accurate and to be able to explain, discuss, recommend, persuade/influence and prioritise required actions to budget managers.
• To provide high quality tools, information and data to enable budget managers to effectively and efficiently manage budgets and to support development of strategies to improve financial performance.
• To provide expert accounting and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
• To constructively and positively challenge all aspects of financial and Business performance.
• To ensure that there is a robust control environment in place within the departments and to ensure compliance with corporate governance procedures.

• To prepare annual budgets and monthly forecasts, including providing challenge to service assumptions.
• To enhance and develop the Finance Business partnering to help drive financial improvement within the services.
• To prepare and review business cases ensuring that all costs / benefits are fully understood and that decisions on new initiatives are taken with full knowledge of the financial implications.
• To ensure that the financial direction is robust and fit for purpose. Constructively and positively challenge all aspects of the financial and business performance.
• To provide financial leadership and guidance in delivering Trust wide programmes concerned with improved productivity, quality and efficiency programmes.

If you have recent NHS experience at the appropriate level and are a qualified finance professional please do apply.

Morgan Law