Job summary
As a Senior Finance Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the South West region to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe services in line with national and sub national policy objectives.
The post holder will directly support the Head of Finance in ensuring that there are sound financial systems in place across direct commissioning to evaluate and monitor services.
The role supports the business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.
Deputise for the Head of Finance as required, expanding on knowledge, skills and experience within personal professional development.
The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate.
Main duties of the job
The Finance Directorate is a high performing team, flexible in approach and adaptable to change and a key function of the Regional structure.
It oversees the financial performance of the region by:
- Ensuring risk is managed and balanced across organisations, systems and the region
- Managing and actively promoting system working to ensure best value for money
- Ensuring systems and processes are in place to enable sound financial control
- Providing necessary advice, support, challenge to organisations and the system
Work with systems and organisations to develop sustainable financial strategies.
About us
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
- As a senior lead working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost effective way.
- To support the identification and sharing of best practice in finance to support service improvement.
- To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
- Support the portfolio of programmes/projects in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
- Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.
- In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports
Financial and Physical Resources
- Responsible for budgets/matching the available budget to the appropriate staff resources and projects and for ensuring that the budget breaks even,co-ordinating and monitoring expenditure.
- Responsible for supporting the commissioning of projects and procurement of services to support project delivery, acting in accordance with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instruction.
- Provide financial reports to Directors and the Board as required.
- Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.
- Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets, and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year
People Management
- Responsible for the day-to-day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and where necessary employee relations matters.
- Responsible for an individuals development on the job and team performance.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
- As a senior lead working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost effective way.
- To support the identification and sharing of best practice in finance to support service improvement.
- To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
- Support the portfolio of programmes/projects in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
- Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.
- In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports
Financial and Physical Resources
- Responsible for budgets/matching the available budget to the appropriate staff resources and projects and for ensuring that the budget breaks even,co-ordinating and monitoring expenditure.
- Responsible for supporting the commissioning of projects and procurement of services to support project delivery, acting in accordance with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instruction.
- Provide financial reports to Directors and the Board as required.
- Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.
- Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets, and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year
People Management
- Responsible for the day-to-day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and where necessary employee relations matters.
- Responsible for an individuals development on the job and team performance.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area CCAB qualified accountant.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Must have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes.
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda.
- Member of relevant professional body.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area CCAB qualified accountant.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Must have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes.
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda.
- Member of relevant professional body.
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).
