Job summary
Conexus Healthcare CIC are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Finance Manager to join our small Finance Team.
If you like working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and have the ability to work positively and productively with a wide range of professional colleagues with varying levels of financial knowledge and ability, this could be the role for you!
This is a fantastic opportunity to use your expertise to provide high-quality finance reporting to the Board, the Managing Director and the wider Conexus team, taking responsibility for the reporting of a wide range of individual budgets/contracts held by Conexus, which also includes monthly meetings with budget holders to assist them to understand and manage their financial positions.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to provide management and financial accounts, project costing, business systems and processes through to the production of annual statutory accounts. Utilising excellent communication skills, the Finance Manager will need to develop professional working relationships with both members of Conexus Healthcare and external stakeholders including colleagues within the service, our membership practices, the ICB, local health trusts and other providers.
As part of the Finance team, you may be involved in preparing statutory financial accounts, monthly management accounts and finance board reports and presentations. You will also support us to set budgets, forecast cashflow and report to external commissioners
This role will be perfect for someone who has significant experience in dealing successfully with a range of internal and external stakeholders and has experience in providing financial leadership in a complex organisation with a range of diverse expenditure streams.
You'll really stand out if you understand how General Practice finance works, have experience working in healthcare, social care or other public sector and have the capacity to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapt to changing priorities, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
About us
Conexus Healthcare is the GP Confederation in Wakefield. Our work includes:
- Delivering high-quality public facing health and care services
- Providing Training and Consultancy support locally and across the UK
- Supporting local Practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs)
- Providing a voice and influence for General Practice in the Health and Care System
Were proud to have built a respectful, inclusive place to work with staff who want to be part of a dynamic and thriving organisation. We continue to work hard and develop talent, invest in our people and our communities.
Join our growing Conexus family and enjoy:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Minimum 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy more
- Flexible hybrid working(Please remove this benefit if this does not apply to the role)
- Access to wellbeing events & social activities
- Volunteering scheme
- Free wellbeing and mental health coaching support
Sound like your kind of role? Please read the person specification and candidate information below and download the job description in Supporting Documents.
When you're ready, click Apply Now and submit your CV before 28th July 2023. We may close the vacancy early if we receive lots of applications so apply as soon as you can.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full job description and person specification for this position, please see the attached documents
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full job description and person specification for this position, please see the attached documents
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified accountant (all professional accreditations considered).
- Evidence of continuous development and of acquiring new skills/knowledge.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working positively and productively with a wide range of professional colleagues with varying levels of financial knowledge and ability.
- Significant experience of dealing successfully with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of the design, continual development and improvement of accounting systems and business processes.
- Experience of successfully overseeing the assurance and compliance with Standing Financial Instructions and Scheme of Delegation.
- Experience of providing financial leadership in a complex organisation with a range of diverse income & expenditure streams.
- Experience of using a range of Microsoft packages including Word and Excel to produce documents and reports.
- Experience of using Microsoft Excel formulas, functions, lookups, and pivot tables.
- Experience of supporting a range of staff with managing workloads relating to financial responsibilities.
- Experience of delivering informal training e.g. supporting new staff members with using office systems and processes.
Desirable
- Experience working within the Primary Healthcare sector or working within or across a health or social care setting or an equivalent environment.
- Experience with use of Sage50 and XERO accounting software.
- Experience of payroll processing and specifically, the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Experience of partially exempt VAT returns.
- Experience in delivering projects to pre-determined targets.
Skills & Aptitude
Essential
- Have a can-do attitude and enjoy developing solutions to any problems encountered.
- Ability to work effectively both as a team member and independently.
- Recognise when the limits of own competence are exceeded and able to identify how and from whom to seek support.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure, troubleshoot, and effectively balance meeting short and long-term deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to produce clear written communication for a wide range of audiences.
- Able to quickly build productive working relationships with a wide range of people both within and outside of the organisation.
- Ability to support unpredicted schedules.
Disposition
Essential
- Able to prioritise own work, schedule and organise own time, sometimes managing conflicting priorities with limited supervision. Maintain resilience in the face of work pressures.
- Able to coordinate and schedule competing priorities for a range of staff and external partners.
- Have a strong commitment to team working and demonstrates excellent interpersonal team working skills.
- A pragmatic and intuitive approach to problem-solving.
- Attention to detail, in order to spot defects and areas of concern.
- Flexible approach to achieving the priorities of the role.
- Reliable and demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to a changing agenda.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Knowledge / Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of information governance standards around data security and confidentiality.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Primary Care delivery landscape and how it sits within the wider healthcare system.
Circumstances
Essential
- Able to meet Conexus Healthcares standards of attendance.
- Able to travel independently across the district when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified accountant (all professional accreditations considered).
- Evidence of continuous development and of acquiring new skills/knowledge.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working positively and productively with a wide range of professional colleagues with varying levels of financial knowledge and ability.
- Significant experience of dealing successfully with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of the design, continual development and improvement of accounting systems and business processes.
- Experience of successfully overseeing the assurance and compliance with Standing Financial Instructions and Scheme of Delegation.
- Experience of providing financial leadership in a complex organisation with a range of diverse income & expenditure streams.
- Experience of using a range of Microsoft packages including Word and Excel to produce documents and reports.
- Experience of using Microsoft Excel formulas, functions, lookups, and pivot tables.
- Experience of supporting a range of staff with managing workloads relating to financial responsibilities.
- Experience of delivering informal training e.g. supporting new staff members with using office systems and processes.
Desirable
- Experience working within the Primary Healthcare sector or working within or across a health or social care setting or an equivalent environment.
- Experience with use of Sage50 and XERO accounting software.
- Experience of payroll processing and specifically, the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Experience of partially exempt VAT returns.
- Experience in delivering projects to pre-determined targets.
Skills & Aptitude
Essential
- Have a can-do attitude and enjoy developing solutions to any problems encountered.
- Ability to work effectively both as a team member and independently.
- Recognise when the limits of own competence are exceeded and able to identify how and from whom to seek support.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure, troubleshoot, and effectively balance meeting short and long-term deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to produce clear written communication for a wide range of audiences.
- Able to quickly build productive working relationships with a wide range of people both within and outside of the organisation.
- Ability to support unpredicted schedules.
Disposition
Essential
- Able to prioritise own work, schedule and organise own time, sometimes managing conflicting priorities with limited supervision. Maintain resilience in the face of work pressures.
- Able to coordinate and schedule competing priorities for a range of staff and external partners.
- Have a strong commitment to team working and demonstrates excellent interpersonal team working skills.
- A pragmatic and intuitive approach to problem-solving.
- Attention to detail, in order to spot defects and areas of concern.
- Flexible approach to achieving the priorities of the role.
- Reliable and demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to a changing agenda.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Knowledge / Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of information governance standards around data security and confidentiality.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Primary Care delivery landscape and how it sits within the wider healthcare system.
Circumstances
Essential
- Able to meet Conexus Healthcares standards of attendance.
- Able to travel independently across the district when required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
