Finance Business Partner (XN09)

Job responsibilities

The Person we are looking for:

Fully qualified CCAB or ACMA Accountant

Experience of working within a finance function, preferably in financial management

Experience of using and maintaining an NHS costing system, developing patient level costing and engaging in its outputs across the organisation.

Have specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures

Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

Have an inclusive leadership style and the ability to challenge, negotiate and influence

Experience of leading cross-cutting projects and collaboration with other stakeholders to improve performance

A preparedness to take responsibility and work autonomously demonstrating a commitment to delivering results, a quality service and delivering at pace

Qualifications

Essential

• Full Professional Accountancy qualification (CCAB or CIMA qualified, equivalent to Masters level qualification)
• 5 O levels/GCSEs to include Maths and English
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience in providing impartial detailed financial advice and information to management teams
• Experience of working in financial management roles including the areas of budget setting and financial planning; financial reporting to business units
• Experience of using and maintaining an NHS costing system, developing PLICS and engagement in its outputs across the organisation.
• Knowledge of the NHS Costing Manual and the requirements of the annual National Cost Collection exercise
• Experience of producing costing information at patient or other levels including consultant, specialty and CSU for in-depth analysis, investigation and other business use purposes
• Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures
• Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
• Experience of leading cross-cutting projects and collaboration with other stakeholders to improve performance
• Ability to adapt information to engage a range of stakeholders
• Experience of managing staff and delivering finance training
• Advanced knowledge of financial ledgers and finance software business tools

Desirable

• Experience of working within the NHS
• Knowledge of common NHS activity information and measures of productivity and awareness of problems and potential shortcomings
• Knowledge of the SQL programming language, ability to write basic queries and read /interpret more complex SQL scripts written by others.
• Knowledge of training techniques and best practice

Skills and Behaviours

Essential

• The ability to work within an area which requires the post holder to react quickly to the financial requirements of the CSU
• Demonstration of effective stakeholder management, with an ongoing commitment to building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and collaborations
• The ability to secure engagement with well-developed leadership and confident but pleasant communication skills, willing to challenge and be challenged
• The ability to make effective decisions, making judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, frequently operating in areas of work where there may be a conflict of opinions
• A commitment to knowing and understanding the business
• A preparedness to take responsibility and work autonomously demonstrating a commitment to delivering results, a quality service and delivering at pace
• A customer focus, acknowledging the importance of service quality and the need to add value to customers, monitoring quality and acting upon feedback appropriately
• Commitment to supporting change and improvement, able to make connections and link pieces of work to maximise the achievement of multiple objectives
• The ability to take responsibility for own workload and being responsible for a range of complex activities
• Creative and innovative, able to propose and develop changes to working practices and procedures to ensure the continual improvement of the services
• Commitment to reviewing own performance, assessing own strengths and weaknesses, taking corrective action and identifying areas for personal development
• The ability to manage staff, lead team building, coach and motivate colleagues
• The ability to negotiate, influence and challenge senior colleagues
• Commitment to behaving honestly, openly, impartially and fairly in accordance with the Leeds Way Values
• A confident, pleasant approach, willing to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, budget holders and other managers, working as part of multidisciplinary teams
• Has a personal coping strategy for dealing with colleagues who oppose and challenge the requirements of good corporate governance and the need to meet statutory financial requirements

Desirable

• An ability to deal with highly complex issues with a wide range of parties including colleagues both finance and non-finance from all levels of seniority up to board level directors
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, including an ability to chair meetings and deliver presentations
• Ability to respond to challenge within situations in which there are conflicting priorities and strongly expressed opposing views
• Ability to plan long term financial targets and organise workloads to deliver against challenging timescales