Job summary
Fixed Term for Maternity Cover
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner/Finance Business Partner in delivering comprehensive financial management support to either a Clinical Division or Corporate Directorates.
The role will be an integral part of the Finance Team providing a reliable and responsive financial management service to ensure the provision of high-quality financial advice and information to a variety of staff both within and outside of the Trust, and at different levels.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the Directorate Team advising on a wide range of financial issues.
Business and financial planning
- To support the development and monitoring annual budgets for the agreed areas of responsibility.
- To support the identification of Cost Improvement Plans for agreed areas of responsibility To provide financial and performance support to the development of Service Development and Business Plans for agreed areas of responsibilityPlay a key role in the Directorate's business planning process, supporting the Finance Business Partner/Senior Finance Business Partner in providing advice, guidance and challenge.
- Prepare financial assessments of business plans. This will include the impact on efficiency, capacity, asset utilisation and activity.
- Financial and capacity modelling of the impact of changes in costs and activity relating to business plans.
- Develop a detailed understanding of key cost drivers and cost behaviour.
- Providing information and financial assessment to support reference costs submission and development of PLICs for Directorates.
- To communicate with all levels of staff both within the Finance Department and the wider Trust.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
For individuals who may require sponsorship under the skilled worker or health & care visa route please use the link below to check your eligibility. Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK
Please note that from 9th April2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
For individuals who may require sponsorship under the skilled worker or health & care visa route please use the link below to check your eligibility. Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK
Please note that from 9th April2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Qualified accountant - CCAB
- Evidence of continual professional development post qualification for at least 1 year
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Previous senior experience of management accounting and finance business partnering
- Budget control - development, managing and monitoring of annual budgets
- Supporting the identification, monitoring and reporting of cost improvement programmes and financial assessments of the cost effectiveness of services
- Supporting the development and testing the financial implications of business plans
- Monitoring, reporting and communication of financial position to various stakeholders.
- Development of actions plans to control and correct unfavourable expenditure and income variances
- Delivering financial related training to budget holders
- Advanced IT literate including experience of use and interrogation of general ledger systems and Excel
- Forecasting of financial position with stakeholders
Personal Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively with all levels of staff both verbally and in writing. This includes staff in other departments, such as budget holders, as well as colleagues within the department
- Analyse, interpret and report upon financial and non-financial information
- To effectively challenge systems, processes, business cases etc. to ensure use of resources are maximised
- Organise demanding workload with competing priorities to achieve deadlines
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Qualified accountant - CCAB
- Evidence of continual professional development post qualification for at least 1 year
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Previous senior experience of management accounting and finance business partnering
- Budget control - development, managing and monitoring of annual budgets
- Supporting the identification, monitoring and reporting of cost improvement programmes and financial assessments of the cost effectiveness of services
- Supporting the development and testing the financial implications of business plans
- Monitoring, reporting and communication of financial position to various stakeholders.
- Development of actions plans to control and correct unfavourable expenditure and income variances
- Delivering financial related training to budget holders
- Advanced IT literate including experience of use and interrogation of general ledger systems and Excel
- Forecasting of financial position with stakeholders
Personal Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively with all levels of staff both verbally and in writing. This includes staff in other departments, such as budget holders, as well as colleagues within the department
- Analyse, interpret and report upon financial and non-financial information
- To effectively challenge systems, processes, business cases etc. to ensure use of resources are maximised
- Organise demanding workload with competing priorities to achieve deadlines
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
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).
