Finance Continuous Improvement Manager

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With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Following a restructure of the Finance team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we have created the new role of Finance Continuous Improvement Manager (band 7). This is a key role within the Finance Continuous Improvement team and will include monitoring of Cost Improvement Programmes (CIP) as well as supporting the overall PMO and Financial Improvement agenda.

This is an excellent career opportunity for a qualified accountant or finalist who wants to develop their skills in more of a project environment, using your financial experience to support the full programme/project life cycle and ensure CIP projects run to timescale, with effective governance.

You will be an ambitious Finance professional who understands the link between Improvement programmes and day to day financial management within a large and complex organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual who is willing to learn, gain new skills and use your finance experience in a project context to make a positive impact on patient care.

Main duties of the job

• The Finance Continuous Improvement Manager is an integral part of the Finance Continuous Improvement Team whose key responsibilities will be to support good day-to-day functioning of the Finance and Central Improvement Programme (CIP) and support the Head of Finance to implement the departments developed vision and roadmap.
• The post holder will support the full programme/project life cycle including the effective scoping, planning, delivery and benefits realisation of projects to timescale, budget and quality expectations. This includes supporting in the production and maintenance of all relevant plans, controls, management and the day-to-day management of the programme's governance through the Continuous Improvement Steering Group.
• Although the post sits in the Financial Planning and Reporting team the post holder will have to work across the whole finance department to identify areas for improvement and set up task groups to work up and implement solutions. The post holder will need to be pro-active and good at building relationships, bringing teams together and driving forward change programmes.
• The post holder will ensure good governance is in place, particularly around finance Continuous Improvement (CI) training and central finance transformation programmes.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To apply please send your CV and cover letter to our recruitment partner Jenny Bui of i&e Professionals

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications & training

Essential criteria

• CCAB qualification or CCAB Finalist
• Bachelor's level degree or Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE 2).
• Continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• LEAN trained

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• A proven record of accomplishment of delivery in a PMO environment and business/project planning
• Experience of working on process improvement projects within Finance.
• Understanding of the changing NHS finance environment and its implications for service delivery
• Experience in project governance
• Demonstrable knowledge and proficiency in the effective application of various best practice tools and techniques in project, programme and change management, service redesign, facilitation and service improvement
• Experience of working with stakeholders and securing their engagement.

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of the changing NHS environment and its implications for service delivery.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Project management skills.
• Excellent inter-personal, communications and influencing skills
• Good level of analytical skills, including analysis of data using Excel / related tools

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 616.3KB)
• Functional Requirement Form ( (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)