Deputy Divisional Finance Manager

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Deputy Divisional Accountant to work in the Financial Management team, serving the Corporate divisions at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

This opportunity is for someone who is able to provide an excellent customer service to both Budget Holders, Budget Managers and other internal\external customers.

The ideal candidate will have previously worked within Finance Departments, be CCAB Part of Fully Qualified and be able to demonstrate a proven track record of delivering to tight deadlines within a Financial Management setting. Candidates must possess excellent communication, organisational and IT skills and be committed to working flexibly in a team which delivers an excellent service to its customers.

Please ensure you meet the person specifications and have the relevant qualifications for this role.

The post holder will be based at the Catford offices and will be required to work across all sites.

Informal enquiries and both welcomed and encouraged.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as the deputy to the Finance Business Partner, providing numbers and expert advise at directorate review meetings and to directorate managers and to the Trust Executive Team as and when required.

Key duties include: preparation of monthly management accounts, providing on-going advise to budget holders on managing and understanding their expenditure variances, providing financial input into business cases and providing training in financial management to non-financial managers.

Working alongside two other members of the financial management team, the post holder will be instrumental in the delivery of financial management information and advise to the Corporate divisions.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Preparing and submitting a monthly Management Accounts Pack to the Finance Business Partner and to budget holders.
• Designing, producing and maintaining budget reports and other spreadsheet based reports and models in accordance with agreed timetables and departmental policies and procedures.
• Drafting the commentary to accompany monthly management accounts.
• Preparing monthly variance reports for specific departments within a Directorate.
• Investigating any variances from the plan and identifying causes and offering options for resolution.
• Meeting regularly with budget holders and providing information and analysis to them regarding their budgets.
• Supporting all the relevant budget holders in the preparation of their annual including provision of analysis and projections.
• Advising budget holders on possible areas of expenditure reduction.
• Acting as principal contact for key clients, probing business decisions, verifying reports that are drawn up by non-financial staff for compatibility with financial information.
• Ensuring that all invoices to external bodies are raised timely and also all supplier invoices are coded in the system accurately.
• Working with Directorates to refine their particular reporting requirements and to work with colleagues in other areas to deliver acceptable solutions to those requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria

• Degree or part qualification or actively pursuing a relevant professional qualification
• Evidence of regular professional and personal development training

Desirable criteria

• CCAB/ CIMA Qualified

Experience

Essential criteria

• Delivering financial reports to rigorous standards and deadlines
• Significant experience of working in an NHS organisation
• Significant experience of leading a finance team

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to identify key trends and potential risks within financial results
• Team worker, able to work with other Directorate finance colleagues to improve the performance of the department as a whole
• Understanding of NHS national reforms and policies
• Able to undertake rigorous analysis and produce cogent recommendations
• Able to work fast under pressure at times of high workload and competing priorities
• High levels of motivation, enthusiasm and tenacity
• Ability to contribute effectively to group discussions and decisions

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)