Job summary
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and engaging leader to fulfil the senior role of Director of Finance, Commercial and Strategy. As a key member of the Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) senior leadership team, you'll have strong leadership skills and the ability to work at Board level. You will be responsible for our organisational budget (circa. £100 Million) and provide strategic leadership to our finance function.
As a proactive collaborator, you will develop and maintain key relationships with the BSPS Board members and the Chair of the Finance and Investment Committee, as well as the wider Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team.
This is a key role in providing direction and support to ensure a coordinated approach to financial and commercial performance across our organisation and providing financial expertise in terms of budgeting, costing and business planning and development.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be experienced in leading financial performance and sustainability in a complex network environment, be technically and intellectually strong and able to provide strong professional leadership for the financial staff within BSPS. As a strategic leader, you will develop and lead commercial and financial strategies in support of the overall strategy and direction of BSPS and its partner organisations and provide strategic planning advice to senior BSPS Executive colleagues and the BSPS Board.
You will have responsibility for implementing an annual contracting strategy and "horizon scanning" for any potential bidding and service development opportunities for BSPS and undertake research modelling and collation of information to support the Executive Team to reach "bid" or "no bid" decisions.
As a member of the Pathology Board, you will be able to demonstrate an innovative approach and clear focus on driving continuous improvement across the finance function and beyond, while embedding a supportive, high-performance culture.
In return, you could be part of an upward journey, in which there is both permission and support to be innovative in the development of a leading Finance function at BSPS.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
About us
BSPS, is one of the country's largest, most respected and welcoming NHS Pathology networks. Our friendly, supportive and open culture makes this a unique place to work supporting great patient care.
BSPS is a joint venture between five NHS Trusts - Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals, Frimley Health, Royal Surrey and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trusts, and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. Our network has a clear vision to be clinically led and patient centred, providing a highly motivating environment for our people and enabling them to create an outstanding Pathology Network, delivering the very best outcome for our patients.The complete service model is based on a multi-site strategy, which delivers both routine and specialist in-house testing whilst providing timely results to patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB/CIMA qualified
- Educated to masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior management level in a NHS finance department including budget setting and managing multi-million pound budgets
- Experience of successfully leading staff to high performance, transforming ineffective behaviours into responsive and proactive processes
- Experience in a Senior Strategic Development or Planning role in a complex environment sector
- Proven experience of managing complex contractual negotiations and process demonstrating the impact on desired business objectives
- Previous experience of developing pricing and costing models that help to deliver the partnerships' commercial and financial strategies
Desirable
- Previous experience of working at Board level
- Experience of leadership development
- Led budget setting in an NHS environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge & understanding of the contract negotiations framework and impact on the business planning cycle.
- Ability to employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable an effective change management with stakeholders at all levels (including senior management) who may hold differing and contentious views.
- Ability to draw together a range of disparate and complex information in order to identify options and make decisions.
- Ability to build excellent relationships & manage stakeholders across organisational boundaries and functional areas to deliver cultural and operational transformation and promote organisational learning.
Desirable
- Knowledge of corporate governance and risk management approaches to contracting, commercial development and operational plans.
- Ability to develop and mine a network of contacts, import and assess suitability of new approaches to design new creative business models and introduce innovation into contractual arrangements and business models.
- Project management experience.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB/CIMA qualified
- Educated to masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior management level in a NHS finance department including budget setting and managing multi-million pound budgets
- Experience of successfully leading staff to high performance, transforming ineffective behaviours into responsive and proactive processes
- Experience in a Senior Strategic Development or Planning role in a complex environment sector
- Proven experience of managing complex contractual negotiations and process demonstrating the impact on desired business objectives
- Previous experience of developing pricing and costing models that help to deliver the partnerships' commercial and financial strategies
Desirable
- Previous experience of working at Board level
- Experience of leadership development
- Led budget setting in an NHS environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge & understanding of the contract negotiations framework and impact on the business planning cycle.
- Ability to employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable an effective change management with stakeholders at all levels (including senior management) who may hold differing and contentious views.
- Ability to draw together a range of disparate and complex information in order to identify options and make decisions.
- Ability to build excellent relationships & manage stakeholders across organisational boundaries and functional areas to deliver cultural and operational transformation and promote organisational learning.
Desirable
- Knowledge of corporate governance and risk management approaches to contracting, commercial development and operational plans.
- Ability to develop and mine a network of contacts, import and assess suitability of new approaches to design new creative business models and introduce innovation into contractual arrangements and business models.
- Project management experience.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
