About this role
Job summary
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) is looking to recruit motivated and ambitious Finance Business Partners to join our Financial Management Team.
We are seeking CCAB-qualified accountants with significant financial management experience, strong analytical skills and excellent communication abilities. You will be comfortable explaining complex financial information to non-finance colleagues, constructively challenging where appropriate and building effective working relationships across the organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity for qualified finance professionals to play a key role in supporting operational and clinical leaders to deliver high-quality patient care within available resources. Working as part of a dynamic and supportive finance team, you will provide expert financial advice, business partnering support and analytical insight to help services achieve their operational and financial objectives.
Main duties of the job
You will work closely with Divisional leadership teams, leading on financial reporting, forecasting, budget setting, efficiency programmes and business case development. You will provide clear, practical guidance to non-finance colleagues and help ensure key decisions are based on robust financial and performance information.
The role offers a varied and rewarding portfolio with opportunities to influence decisions across a wide range of services. You will support the identification and delivery of efficiency opportunities, use benchmarking and patient-level costing information to drive improvement, and contribute to the ongoing development of financial systems and processes.
Providing expert financial advice and developing strong business partnering relationships.
Leading monthly reporting, forecasting and analytical review for the relevant services.
Supporting budget setting, business planning and the development of robust business cases.
Identifying, costing, forecasting and monitoring efficiency opportunities.
Using service line reporting, patient-level costing and benchmarking to inform decisions.
Leading, supporting and developing members of the divisional finance team.
Whether you are looking to broaden your experience or take the next step in your NHS finance career, this is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking team committed to continuous improvement and delivering value for our patients and communities.
About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of all roles and responsibilities please see attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB Qualified Accountant
- Demonstrate Continuing Professional Development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Have significant post qualification experience in Financial Management
- Experience of supporting Divisions in identifying, tracking and reporting efficiencies
- Experience of use of and improvements of financial systems
- In depth knowledge of the NHS financial regime
- Possess a sound understanding of financial and activity systems and to be able to extract, interpret, manipulate and present information in a meaningful way
- Experience dealing with contracts for Supplies & Services
- Works autonomously to interpret and apply relevant national standards and guidance, including DHSC policy, NHS financial frameworks and applicable Accounting Standards, providing expert judgement and evidence-based assurance to support compliant and effective financial management
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Kettering
NN16 8UZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)