About this role
Job summary
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) is seeking an experienced, forward-thinking finance leader to join our senior Finance Directorate team as Head of Financial Management. This is a key leadership role that will help shape and drive the future of financial management across our organisation.
We are looking for a CCAB-qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience in financial management, strong leadership skills and a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders in a complex environment. Experience of driving service improvement, developing financial management standards and leading teams through change will be essential.
Working closely with senior operational, clinical and corporate colleagues, you will lead improvements in financial planning, performance reporting and business intelligence, helping services identify opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency and value.
Main duties of the job
As a senior member of the Finance Directorate, you will provide strategic leadership for the Trust's Financial Management function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality financial advice, robust reporting, forecasting and assurance to Executive Directors, clinical leaders and operational teams. You will play a central role in supporting strategic decision-making and ensuring financial resources are used effectively to deliver the best outcomes for our patients and communities.
A significant aspect of the role is developing our people and culture. You will lead the development of finance capability across the organisation, supporting a high-performing, inclusive and values-driven culture while helping both finance and non-finance colleagues strengthen their financial understanding and decision-making.
You will bring?
Strategic leadership of financial planning, forecasting, reporting and assurance.
A commitment to high-quality, consistent and insight-led financial management.
The ability to influence, challenge and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
Experience of leading change, developing teams and strengthening finance capability.
A strong focus on productivity, efficiency, continuous improvement and value.
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
Full a full list of all roles and responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification,
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- CCAB Qualified Accountant
- Demonstrate Continuing Professional Development
Knowledge/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
- Experience of developing and implementing organisation-wide financial management standards, frameworks and approaches
- Experience of leading improvements in financial reporting, planning or management processes to drive consistency, quality and efficiency.
- Experience of developing finance capability, including training design, delivery or professional development initiatives across teams or organisations.
Desirable
- Experience of setting and assuring standards for financial management across an organisation.
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
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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)