Finance Business Partner (Chc)

Job summary To partner the senior Operational Teams within their dedicated Directorate ensuring they get the business and financial support they need to run their Directorate.
The role works in close partnership with the directorate to help drive transformation as well as value for money.
Part of a team of Finance professionals, responsible for the provision of an expert financial management service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporate departments.To lead and be responsible for the monthly reporting for these areas, income and expenditure, ensuring that information produced is robust, accurate and owned by appropriate individuals.To support the development of Cost Improvement Programme schemes CIPs and the financial modelling of service developments, ensuring that the information produced is robust, accurate and that plans are deliverable.To support the Head of System Reporting and Corporate with the development and implementation of the ICBs medium to long term strategy.
To support the Head of System Reporting and Corporate in the delivery of corporate tasks and objectives, assuming responsibility for the delivery of a range of tasks.Work with and cover Directorate Business Partners to ensure the senior team in the Directorates are supported in the decisions and running of the Directorate.
Main duties of the job To provide leadership, financial and business advice and support, in the production of high quality financial management information, for a range of clinical and corporate units.To work closely with other Finance professionals and across the other corporate functions to ensure comprehensive support is given to the senior management within the Directorate and to the other business partners and executives.To identify opportunities for information or quality improvements within the wider Reporting and Management Accounts team, to ensure every opportunity is taken to develop and enhance the provision of an expert Financial Management service to the ICB.To provide a high quality financial management reporting service with a focus on identifying trends, risks and opportunities, communicating these to senior finance staff, clinical unit/ corporate management teams and to the executive team in such a way that its use informs management decision making.To produce high quality reports for Directorates and the CFO.To attend key meetings to lead discussions on the financial performance of clinical units and corporate departments.
About us Inthe heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB).
It coversthe geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authorityboundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire andWokingham.
Our geography covers a population of nearly million.
Whileoverall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence wehave pockets of severe deprivation.
Ourconstituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulancetrust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £ ofpublic money each year.
Wevalue and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity forall.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect thecommunities they serve.
We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadershipand particularly encourage applications from women, people from black andminority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and frompeople with lived experience of disability, who we know are allunder-represented in these important roles.
Job description Job responsibilities Todevelop robust forecasting systems and models and to ensure these systems aremonitored for accuracy; and assumptions are challenged with appropriateindividuals to ensure that information presented is robust, accurate,deliverable and owned by relevant individuals.To review CIP plans for Directorates within their portfolio, challenging assumptions and assessing risk to ensure scheme information is robust, accurate and deliverable.Tolead on the development and assessment of corporate wide cost improvementschemes, working with managers and clinicians to carry out financial andactivity modelling.Tosupport with the development and enhancement of CIP reporting and trackingsystems.To support the Finance team in the modelling of activity, income and expenditure in relation to complex business case developments and funding proposals, both internal and external to the ICB.To ensure that the impact of capital costs is fully factored into revenue business cases and vice versa.
To challenge assumptions with relevant individuals and to be responsible for ensuring that financial modelling is robust, accurate and in line with overall ICB objectives, assessing risks and identifying risk mitigating actions as required.To interpret accounting guidance and NHSE directives regarding accounting and funding mechanisms, and to assess the impact and recommend actions that ensure clinical services and corporate Directorates maximise their income and minimise their costs.To assist in the overall annual business planning and budget setting process for clinical units and corporate Directorates within the portfolio and to support the other Finance staff in delivering required tasks for their designated areas.To support the Head of System Reporting and Corporate with the production and development of ICB wide reporting for Directorate and ICB meetings, including Board meetings and performance review meetings.Tosupport Clinical Unit managers and clinicians in understanding their incomeposition, and in the identification and implementation of income maximisationopportunities.To work with the clinical units and corporate Directorates to benchmark their services from financial and non-financial perspectives and to develop reporting mechanisms to monitor and assess relative performance.To lead on assigned on ICB wide corporate projects.To lead on finance wide projects.To work with other finance departments and corporate services to identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement within financial processes and to lead on the implementation of required changes.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential CCAB qualified or equivalent with 2-5 years post qualification experience at a senior level inside or outside the NHS.
Post qualification experience in a financial management role.
2 years or more.
Wide knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
Experience of assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects.
Evidenced continuous professional development record.
Experience Essential Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner.
Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and good analytical skills.
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to often changing and tight timescales.
Ability to question and challenge budget holders and other staff where appropriate to hold them to account for budgetary spend.
Ability to gain clinical engagement.
Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation with staff on challenging and detailed issues.
Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to overcome barriers to acceptance.
Must be able to prioritise own work effectively, manage and motivate a team and review individual performance.
Excellent Microsoft office skills and advanced Excel.
Excellent customer service skills.
Knowledge of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.