Finance Business Partner (Primary Care & Pod)

Job summary Topartner the senior Operational Teams within their dedicated Directorateensuring they get the business and financial support they need to run theirDirectorate.
The role works in close partnership with the directorate to helpdrive transformation as well as value for money.Partof a team of Finance professionals, responsible for the provision of an expertfinancial management service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporatedepartments.Tolead and be responsible for the monthly reporting for these areas, income andexpenditure, ensuring that information produced is robust, accurate and ownedby appropriate individuals.To support the development of Cost ImprovementProgramme schemes (CIPs) and the financial modelling of service developments,ensuring that the information produced is robust, accurate and that plans aredeliverable.Tosupport the Head of System Reporting and Corporate with the development andimplementation of the ICBs medium to long term strategy.Tosupport the Head of System Reporting and Corporate in the delivery of corporatetasks and objectives, assuming responsibility for the delivery of a range oftasks.Workwith and cover Directorate Business Partners to ensure the senior team in theDirectorates are supported in the decisions and running of the Directorate.
Main duties of the job Toprovide leadership, financial and business advice and support, in theproduction of high quality financial management information, for a range ofclinical and corporate units.Towork closely with other Finance professionals and across the other corporatefunctions to ensure comprehensive support is given to the senior managementwithin the Directorate and to the other business partners and executives.Toidentify opportunities for information or quality improvements within the widerReporting and Management Accounts team, to ensure every opportunity is taken todevelop and enhance the provision of an expert Financial Management service tothe ICB.Toprovide a high quality financial management reporting service with a focus onidentifying trends, risks and opportunities, communicating these to seniorfinance staff, clinical unit/ corporate management teams and to the executiveteam in such a way that its use informs management decision making.Toproduce high quality reports for Directorates and the CFO.To identify opportunities for information or quality improvementswithin the wider Reporting and Management Accounts team, to ensure everyopportunity is taken to develop and enhance the provision of an expertFinancial Management service to the ICB.
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 Toattend key meetings to lead discussions on the financial performance ofclinical units and corporate departments.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.Toreview CIP plans for Directorates within their portfolio, challengingassumptions and assessing risk to ensure scheme information is robust, accurateand 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.Tosupport the Finance team in the modelling of activity, income and expenditurein relation to complex business case developments and funding proposals, bothinternal and external to the ICB.To ensure that the impact of capital costs is fullyfactored into revenue business cases and vice versa.To challenge assumptions with relevant individuals andto be responsible for ensuring that financial modelling is robust, accurate andin line with overall ICB objectives, assessing risks and identifying riskmitigating actions as required.Tointerpret accounting guidance and NHSE directives regarding accounting andfunding mechanisms, and to assess the impact and recommend actions that ensureclinical services and corporate Directorates maximise their income and minimisetheir costs.Toassist in the overall annual business planning and budget setting process forclinical units and corporate Directorates within the portfolio and to supportthe other Finance staff in delivering required tasks for their designatedareas.Tosupport the Head of System Reporting and Corporate with the production anddevelopment of ICB wide reporting for Directorate and ICB meetings, includingBoard meetings and performance review meetings.To support Clinical Unit managers and clinicians inunderstanding their income position, and in the identification andimplementation of income maximisation opportunities.Towork with the clinical units and corporate Directorates to benchmark theirservices from financial and non-financial perspectives and to develop reportingmechanisms to monitor and assess relative performance.Tolead on assigned on ICB wide corporate projects.Tolead on finance wide projectsTowork with other finance departments and corporate services to identifyopportunities for improvement and enhancement within financial processes and tolead on the implementation of required changes.
Person Specification 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.
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