Finance Officer

Job summary

Are you a passionate and detail-oriented accountant looking to make a real impact?

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a Band 5 Finance Officer to join our dynamic finance team at NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB, as part of the Joined Up Care Derbyshire integrated health and care system.

This role is essential in supporting people in Derby and Derbyshire to live their healthiest lives, creating a sustainable, joined-up health and social care system for now and the future.

This role will report to and assist the Finance Manager in providing finance support to the Place & Partnerships directorate, providing robust and timely financial reports and forecasts, financial information, and high-quality financial advice.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills to develop sound working relationships with the Place & Partnerships and Planned & Urgent Care directorates, alongside the wider finance team and Integrated Care Partners.

DDICB operates a hybrid working model, with offices in Derby and Chesterfield.

Main duties of the job

The Main Duties of the Job will include:

Working flexibly to provide financial support to the Finance Managers

Providing financial assistance and advice to governance,

commissioning, contracting and planning colleagues in the ICB

Developing sound working relationships with the Place & Partnerships and Planned & Urgent Care directorates, alongside the wider finance team and Integrated Care System

Responsibility for monitoring spend and analysing financial trends, including reporting, on specified contracts as part of the monthly and annual reporting cycle

Attend meetings, including contract meetings, with non-Finance staff as required.

Responsibility for overseeing Corporate Pay Budgets.

Responding to complex queries from Finance and Non-Finance staff

Working as part of a team to ensure financial reporting is completed in an accurate and timely manner in accordance with reporting timetables

About us

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, 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 whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population. 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. Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £2.8 billion the ICB has a staff base of approximately c400 people.

At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.

We are a disability confident employer and offer a range of family friendly, flexible working arrangements and inclusive employment policies, to support our people in the workplace.