Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Director of Financial Performance, Analytics and Reporting to join the Commercial pillar of the Integrated Care Board. We are looking for a highly motivated individual, who will lead a small team working with all system partners to deliver forward focused financial performance information.
The wider multidisciplinary team looks after all aspects of contracting and finance for the services we plan and buy for our population, from planning to procurement and contracting through to monitoring and reporting. This role will be an instrumental part in delivering our ambition as part of the wider Resources Directorate. We want to be able to provide our population and our staff with the confidence that resources are being used transparently, supporting the benefits of population health improvement and fulfilling our statutory obligations and duties.
You should be able to provide strategic, and operational, financial leadership for a range of organisational and system priority projects as well as expert accounting and business knowledge, analytical support, and clear presentation of financial and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
Main duties of the job
You will work closely with the Assistant Directors across the Resources function to support multidisciplinary teams. As a result, you will demonstrate exemplary management skills, capable of bringing cohesion to a team with common aims and objectives.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- To provide expert advice and guidance in business case development, for investment and disinvestment proposals.
- Articulate complex financial scenarios and to play a problem-solving role within their area.
- Lead the financial reporting aspects for the ICB and System, driving innovation in reporting and mechanisms to produce streamlined dashboards and a self-service approach.
- Co-production of an Integrated Reporting Pack, working with peers across Quality, Performance and Workforce.
- Ensuring that triangulation between activity, workforce, finance, and performance is intrinsic to our planning, reporting and reflection within the system.
- Lead the system reporting to NHS England for finance.
- Management of multiple senior members of staff.
- To provide expert accounting and business knowledge, analytical support and clear presentation of financial and business information across the governance structure.
- Ensuring the technical aspects of new payment and contracting models are well understood and embeded.
- Support the strategic direction of the ICB aligning with the System Financial Framework and development of System Operating Budgets (through Service Lines and Stewardship)
About us
Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex and is part of the wider integrated care system. Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Phoenix Court, Basildon, but there is a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Mid and South Essex and home working.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability.
Unfortunately, the organisation does not have a Sponsorship licence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition.
Our Commercial team sits within the Finance and Estates Directorate of our ICB and the post holder will lead a small team working with all system partners to deliver forward focused financial performance information. As a system we aim to deliver financial sustainability, providing, transparency, efficiency, and value for money for our population.
The wider multidisciplinary team looks after all aspects of contracting and finance for the services we plan and buy for our population, from planning to procurement and contracting through to monitoring and reporting. This role will be an instrumental part in delivering our ambition as part of the wider Finance and Estates Directorate. We want to be able to provide our population and our staff with the confidence that resources are being used transparently, supporting the benefit of population health improvement and fulfilling our statutory obligations and duties.
Our financial performance, analytics and reporting, will be a hub for the exciting developments in train. The team will be responsible for empowering our system through future focused reporting and analytics. Working to support the building blocks required for effective stewardship within the system, the team will also face into the System PMO and System Costing Hub, supporting our significant efficiency and productivity agenda. The team will be instrumental in delivering the system plans and working across the whole commercial team who will be supporting the organisation to bring them to reality. These teams are multidisciplinary and as such you will be confident in your ability to lead multi-professional technical experts, drawing on the skills within the team and supporting the cohesion of the function.
By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital. For this, we need to be able to effectively anticipate and maximise revenue and capital resources, aligning outgoings within the context of our System Financial Strategy and Financial Sustainability Plan.
Developing an understanding of our system cost base and the behaviours of those costs will support us to utilise our system pound to best effect. We want to ensure value for money across the whole system by supporting our Integrated Care Partnership in the establishment and management of integrated fund arrangements, (such as the Better Care Fund) at place and across Health and Wellbeing Boards.
Every member of the Finance and Estates Directorate is expected to demonstrate the values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Supporting openness, transparency and a commitment to continued development and learning.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Role model the values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the team. Supporting the enhancement of an open and transparent learning culture.
- Encouragement and support of all team members to engage in the One NHS Finance agenda, HfMA and Financial Staff Skills and professional bodies to ensure the development of a broad range of learning for team members and direct line reports.
- The post holder will work closely with the Deputy Directors across the Finance and Estates function to support multidisciplinary teams, as a result you will demonstrate exemplary management skills, capable of bringing cohesion to a team with common aims and objectives.
- Involvement in and delegation of, support for business case development where required.
- Support the strategic direction of the ICB aligning with the System Financial Framework and the development of System Operating Budgets (through Service Lines and Stewardship)
- Articulate complex financial scenarios and to play a problem-solving role within their area and contributing to the wider organisation and system needs
- Lead the financial reporting aspects for the ICB and System level reporting, driving innovation in reporting and mechanisms to produce streamlined dashboards and a self-service approach.
- Lead the shift to reporting trends and benchmarking to the Board, committees, and sub-committees, supporting their awareness and understanding of the numbers.
- Co-producing an Integrated Reporting Pack, working with peers across Quality, Performance and Workforce.
- The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that triangulation between Activity, workforce, finance, and performance is established and maintained through annual planning and medium-term planning rounds.
- The post holder will lead the system reporting to NHS England for finance, working with the leads for other areas to ensure consistency and drawing the strands together to from system partners and across the Deputy Directors within the ICB Finance and Estates Department.
- Working with all Deputy Directors of finance as part of the Finance and Estates Senior Leadership team in delivering overview and scrutiny of the financial position of the ICB, management of reserves and contingency and efficiencies.
- Ensuring accurate reporting of non-recurrent allocation and spend and leading an approach to delivering consistent reporting of the underlying position of the System.
- Key Financial support into the System PMO, leading on elements of the financial recovery plan.
- Complete autonomy within the role and accountability for decisions made during the course of duties
- Set long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy
- Leading the streamlining of closure and reporting processes, therefore maximising the time spent supporting the organisation.
- Management of multiple senior members of staff
- Demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in the field of work ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- To provide expert accounting and business knowledge, analytical support and clear presentation of financial and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
- Provide strategic, and operational, financial leadership for a range of organisational and system priority projects
- Supporting the Director of Commercial, in the discharge of their responsibilities, for example using data and analysis to support contracting changes, challenges or redesign.
- Ensuring the technical aspects of new payment and contracting models are well understood and embedding within the system.
- Support the strategic direction of the ICB aligning with the System Financial Framework and the development of System Operating Budgets (through Service Lines and Stewardship)
- Articulate complex financial scenarios and to play a problem-solving role within their area and contributing to the wider organisation and system needs.
- Working with the System Costing Hub to ensure benchmarking data is incorporated into reporting to aid decision making across the system.
- Effectively communication across the wider finance team (both within the ICB and the wider ICS) to ensure seamless delivery across the directorate.
- Champion and behave with a system finance approach, supporting colleagues across the ICP.
- Local Counter Fraud Champion deputising for the Executive Director of Finance and Estates in relation to LCFS
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition.
Our Commercial team sits within the Finance and Estates Directorate of our ICB and the post holder will lead a small team working with all system partners to deliver forward focused financial performance information. As a system we aim to deliver financial sustainability, providing, transparency, efficiency, and value for money for our population.
The wider multidisciplinary team looks after all aspects of contracting and finance for the services we plan and buy for our population, from planning to procurement and contracting through to monitoring and reporting. This role will be an instrumental part in delivering our ambition as part of the wider Finance and Estates Directorate. We want to be able to provide our population and our staff with the confidence that resources are being used transparently, supporting the benefit of population health improvement and fulfilling our statutory obligations and duties.
Our financial performance, analytics and reporting, will be a hub for the exciting developments in train. The team will be responsible for empowering our system through future focused reporting and analytics. Working to support the building blocks required for effective stewardship within the system, the team will also face into the System PMO and System Costing Hub, supporting our significant efficiency and productivity agenda. The team will be instrumental in delivering the system plans and working across the whole commercial team who will be supporting the organisation to bring them to reality. These teams are multidisciplinary and as such you will be confident in your ability to lead multi-professional technical experts, drawing on the skills within the team and supporting the cohesion of the function.
By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital. For this, we need to be able to effectively anticipate and maximise revenue and capital resources, aligning outgoings within the context of our System Financial Strategy and Financial Sustainability Plan.
Developing an understanding of our system cost base and the behaviours of those costs will support us to utilise our system pound to best effect. We want to ensure value for money across the whole system by supporting our Integrated Care Partnership in the establishment and management of integrated fund arrangements, (such as the Better Care Fund) at place and across Health and Wellbeing Boards.
Every member of the Finance and Estates Directorate is expected to demonstrate the values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Supporting openness, transparency and a commitment to continued development and learning.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Role model the values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the team. Supporting the enhancement of an open and transparent learning culture.
- Encouragement and support of all team members to engage in the One NHS Finance agenda, HfMA and Financial Staff Skills and professional bodies to ensure the development of a broad range of learning for team members and direct line reports.
- The post holder will work closely with the Deputy Directors across the Finance and Estates function to support multidisciplinary teams, as a result you will demonstrate exemplary management skills, capable of bringing cohesion to a team with common aims and objectives.
- Involvement in and delegation of, support for business case development where required.
- Support the strategic direction of the ICB aligning with the System Financial Framework and the development of System Operating Budgets (through Service Lines and Stewardship)
- Articulate complex financial scenarios and to play a problem-solving role within their area and contributing to the wider organisation and system needs
- Lead the financial reporting aspects for the ICB and System level reporting, driving innovation in reporting and mechanisms to produce streamlined dashboards and a self-service approach.
- Lead the shift to reporting trends and benchmarking to the Board, committees, and sub-committees, supporting their awareness and understanding of the numbers.
- Co-producing an Integrated Reporting Pack, working with peers across Quality, Performance and Workforce.
- The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that triangulation between Activity, workforce, finance, and performance is established and maintained through annual planning and medium-term planning rounds.
- The post holder will lead the system reporting to NHS England for finance, working with the leads for other areas to ensure consistency and drawing the strands together to from system partners and across the Deputy Directors within the ICB Finance and Estates Department.
- Working with all Deputy Directors of finance as part of the Finance and Estates Senior Leadership team in delivering overview and scrutiny of the financial position of the ICB, management of reserves and contingency and efficiencies.
- Ensuring accurate reporting of non-recurrent allocation and spend and leading an approach to delivering consistent reporting of the underlying position of the System.
- Key Financial support into the System PMO, leading on elements of the financial recovery plan.
- Complete autonomy within the role and accountability for decisions made during the course of duties
- Set long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy
- Leading the streamlining of closure and reporting processes, therefore maximising the time spent supporting the organisation.
- Management of multiple senior members of staff
- Demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in the field of work ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- To provide expert accounting and business knowledge, analytical support and clear presentation of financial and business information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
- Provide strategic, and operational, financial leadership for a range of organisational and system priority projects
- Supporting the Director of Commercial, in the discharge of their responsibilities, for example using data and analysis to support contracting changes, challenges or redesign.
- Ensuring the technical aspects of new payment and contracting models are well understood and embedding within the system.
- Support the strategic direction of the ICB aligning with the System Financial Framework and the development of System Operating Budgets (through Service Lines and Stewardship)
- Articulate complex financial scenarios and to play a problem-solving role within their area and contributing to the wider organisation and system needs.
- Working with the System Costing Hub to ensure benchmarking data is incorporated into reporting to aid decision making across the system.
- Effectively communication across the wider finance team (both within the ICB and the wider ICS) to ensure seamless delivery across the directorate.
- Champion and behave with a system finance approach, supporting colleagues across the ICP.
- Local Counter Fraud Champion deputising for the Executive Director of Finance and Estates in relation to LCFS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified accountant with demonstratable evidence of continuing professional development OR Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent qualification PLUS specialist knowledge across range of functions acquired through post-graduate courses (see below) and experience to masters equivalent level PLUS managerial, financial and strategic knowledge
- Evidence of continuing personal development
Partnership Working / Leadership
Essential
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership across a whole function, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Champions the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the organisation
- Challenges at every level where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Significant ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources and where there are barriers to understanding
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant systems and procedures
- In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for disseminations to senior stakeholders
- Able to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues and often to changing timescales
- Demonstrable experience of using sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Significant ability to provide informative reporting to governing body, Boards and Committees on progress against strategic and operational outcomes and associated impact
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, with outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
Other
Essential
- Possess a confident and positive attitude and be self motivated
- Personal qualities of integrity, adaptability and motivation
- Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, tenacious and agility and flexibility to respond to changing conditions while remaining clear sighted on corporate strategies and objectives
- Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home, for the purpose of hybrid working
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism.
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB qualified accountant with demonstratable evidence of continuing professional development OR Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent qualification PLUS specialist knowledge across range of functions acquired through post-graduate courses (see below) and experience to masters equivalent level PLUS managerial, financial and strategic knowledge
- Evidence of continuing personal development
Partnership Working / Leadership
Essential
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership across a whole function, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Champions the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the organisation
- Challenges at every level where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Significant ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources and where there are barriers to understanding
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant systems and procedures
- In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for disseminations to senior stakeholders
- Able to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues and often to changing timescales
- Demonstrable experience of using sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Significant ability to provide informative reporting to governing body, Boards and Committees on progress against strategic and operational outcomes and associated impact
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, with outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
Other
Essential
- Possess a confident and positive attitude and be self motivated
- Personal qualities of integrity, adaptability and motivation
- Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, tenacious and agility and flexibility to respond to changing conditions while remaining clear sighted on corporate strategies and objectives
- Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home, for the purpose of hybrid working
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism.
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests
