Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Senior Finance Manager Job at Dartford, England Full Time

• Are you a qualified accountant?
• Enthusiastic and highly motivated?
• Looking for a senior role within the finance department of a Mental Health and Community Trust?
• Looking to work for the largest NHS provider of Offender Healthcare?
• Seeking a role which enables you to ‘make a real difference’ to patient services?
• Want to play a lead role in the transformation of patient services and patient care?

Then apply to join the Financial Management team here at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to join the Oxleas finance team with this newly created post which will play an integral role in providing the best-in-class Financial Management and Reporting to our organisation, our partners and regulators. We are looking for a passionate, driven individual who will play a pivotal role not only within the finance department but across the organisation in helping to deliver and shape the Oxleas financial strategy.

This is a great opportunity for individuals looking to progress to the next level in their careers, and be part of a visionary NHS organisation with a finance structure designed to provide opportunity for further growth and development. This would be an opportunity for someone to come in and make their mark on a newly created directorate. We support flexibility to work remotely for part of the working week.

We look forward to receiving your application.

The post holder will: –

• Lead a team of management accountants to provide highly complex strategic financial and business advice across two or more directorates. This will include providing formal complex financial and business presentations to large groups of non-finance/business staff conveying financial concepts in a clear and persuasive way.
• Analyse highly complex problems relating to business cases and make judgements on financial and business decisions relating to the allocation of finances.
• Plan and organise the work of the Management Accounts Team with key stakeholders in Directorates to deliver complex integrated monitoring and analysis across finance, costing, service line reporting, clinical and patient activity systems. Monitor and adjust strategies to meet the needs of stakeholders.
• Ensure that finance and business reports and analyses meet the Trust’s financial, performance, legal and statutory requirements.
• Ensure the efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of finance and business systems and processes to provide high quality data and information.
• Make a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust’s long and short term business planning processes. Co-ordinate the work of business managers, budget managers and other staff in order to achieve this objective.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Performance Management

• Develop and strengthen working relationships with key stakeholders, developing financial and business strategy within directorates. Explain and present highly complex financial and business concepts and strategies to directors and other senior colleagues.
• Provide comprehensive high quality financial and business across the Trust, making a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust’s long and short term business planning processes.
• Manage and co-ordinate the work of a team of management accountants to ensure that monthly income and expenditure and information reports are produced in accordance with Trust timetables and procedures.
• Initiate service and system enhancements to meet changing customer demand.
• Devise best practice principles and implement these throughout the department.
• Prepare the Trust’s monthly and annual financial and business information report ensuring that the information produced is complete and correct and that trends and variances are investigated and evaluated.
• Provide highly complex financial and business information and advice to budget and service managers to enable them to manage resources efficiently and effectively.
• Monitor financial and business performance and suggests service improvements where appropriate.
• Monitor achievement of cost improvement plans.
• Provide highly complex analysis of financial information and projects, investigates, interprets and compares activity, trends and variances.
• Work autonomously within professional and NHS guidelines, interpreting and acting on this interpretation as appropriate.
• Provide regular financial management training to managers.
• Develop highly complex financial and activity reports for use within the department and throughout the Trust.
• Plan and co-ordinate the work of others in order to achieve departmental objectives.
• Prepare financial and activity schedules for the Trust’s annual plan and statutory accounts, analysing and interpreting these as required.
• Prepare financial and activity schedules for the Trust’s statutory accounts, analysing and interpreting these as required. Ensure that these present a true and fair vies of the Trust’s financial position.
• Develop sophisticated costing models to facilitate the business planning process.
• Calculate the cost of new and existing services and products using a variety of different techniques and methodologies.
• Train colleagues to make the best use of all financial and business information systems.
• Contribute towards the development of existing and new financial and business information systems.

Management Responsibility

• Manage, lead, motivate and develop a team of management accountants.
• Responsible for carrying out staff appraisals in accordance with the Trust’s Personal Development Review (PDR) process.
• Assist in the recruitment and development of high quality permanent and temporary management accounting and finance staff.
• Plan and organise the team’s workload to achieve departmental and organisational objectives.
• Deputise for the Associate Director – Financial Management and Planning.
• Liaise with directors and business managers to ensure that the service provided by the management accounts team meets their requirements.
• Deliver regular Financial and Business Information management training to managers throughout the Trust.

Policies & Procedures

• Analyse and interpret national policy, directives and guidelines and advises on their financial and business effect.
• Recommend changes and improvements to financial policies both within own section and throughout the whole finance department.
• Work with managers and other staff to implement financial policies across the Trust