Finance Manager

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve.

Job overview

Are you an aspirant Finance Business Partner? Are you looking for a role that will enable you to stretch your financial, collaborative and communication skills to improve the delivery and sustainability of health care services within Southend Hospital and the wider Mid and South Essex system, while having appropriate support and development? If the answer to the above is yes, then this is the role for you!

As Finance Manager your role is to manage the provision of finance and business support to local services within Southend hospital, including Accident and Emergency Care, inpatient, Ophthalmology and Cancer Services as part of a wider a multi-sited Foundation Trust. This new role has been developed to enable you to develop into the role and take a step towards developing into a full Finance Business Partner in the future. The role will enable you to expand your management, and service support skills, while providing clear strategic financial leadership, delivering robust operational and financial management and improving cost effectiveness within the local services you will be supporting.

Main duties of the job

The role involves investigating and analysing complex technical issues to offer advice and support to senior management, ensuring compliance with statutory regulations. Strong persuasion and negotiation skills are vital for presenting contentious information to large groups. Managing teams and fostering staff development while liaising with external senior staff is required.

Tasks include preparing annual revenue budgets, ensuring alignment with financial budgets, and obtaining approval from relevant managers and directors. Persuasion and negotiation skills are crucial for addressing managers' financial expectations. Providing financial support and regular reports to groups and meetings, while facilitating effective communication channels, is essential.

Additionally, we aim to collaborate on developing and implementing a robust personal development plan to foster growth through training, coaching, and support, facilitating progression toward becoming a future finance business partner.

Working for our organisation

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we are positioned to expand our reach and impact in delivering health services to local communities. Our goal is to provide outstanding local and specialist services, enhancing patient health and wellbeing while fostering a dynamic environment for staff development, innovation, and career advancement.

Patients will benefit from improved care quality, reduced delays, and increased access to once-in-a-lifetime specialist care across the region. Our expanded trust size creates more opportunities for development, research, networking, and innovation.

We aim to maximise our collective skills and experiences to achieve excellence. Operating as one organisation, we attract top talent and retain specialist staff via increased employment opportunities.

As a supportive finance function, we prioritise development and growth of our staff for both present and future needs. As part of our strategy to achieve Level 3 accreditation as a One NHS Finance trust, we have developed an inclusive Talent Management Strategy. This strategy fosters a supportive team culture, aimed at bringing out the best in our finance team. We are committed to supporting and developing your skills, bringing your Personal Development Plan to life through coaching, training, and exposure opportunities. These initiatives will contribute to the sustainable development of our corporate support services but also prepare you for future roles as Finance Business Partners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details on this role.

You will be required to travel across the MSE site base, while being principally based out of Southend Hospital.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person specification

Personal and People Development

Essential criteria

• Staff management experience and ability to manage and motivate a team of staff
• Actively pursues personal development and contributes to the development of others
• Ability to work without supervision and set own agenda. Highly motivated and enthusiastic

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Part way through CCAB qualification with aim of completion. Equivalent experience will be taken into account.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Full CCAB qualification. Equivalent experience will be taken into account

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• 4 years relevant accountancy experience
• Financial management accountancy experience
• Highly developed IT skills across the Microsoft Office suite
• Understanding and ongoing development of complex spreadsheet and modelling tools
• Costing services and business case planning

Desirable criteria

• NHS finance in an acute hospital experience is highly desirable
• Use of e-financials financial ledger
• Managing, development and recruiting staff

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to liaise with and communicate with staff at all levels, and from a variety of disciplines within the Trust and from outside, in both oral and written forms
• Routinely provide advice to both finance and non-finance professionals on complex and technical finance and accounting issues
• Presentation skills for delivery of training and education on NHS financial management and budget management
• Presentation and interpretation of complex data, to Board level and non-financial senior managers

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• The jobholder will be expected to spend long periods of time sitting at a desk inputting at a keyboard on a regular basis, reading data on screens, or attending meetings.

Other

Essential criteria

• Evaluates quality of own and others work and suggest improvements as appropriate
• Actively seeks to develop services to meet challenges of a changing environment
• Ability to prioritise own and staff workload and to work to tight deadlines
• High/advanced level of computer literacy in packages such as: MS Excel MS Word MS PowerPoint

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Finance Manager JD (PDF, 280.6KB)
• Finance Manager PS (PDF, 48.7KB)
• AFC Pay Poster 23/24 (PDF, 40.2KB)
• Application Form (DOC, 233.0KB)