Senior Finance Analyst

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person specification

Education/ Qualification

Essential criteria

• Working towards CCAB Qualification /or Educated to masters level in accountancy or equivalent combination of degree level education, post graduate part CCAB qualification, extensive training and relevant experience
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Educated to degree level

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of management accounting within the NHS including budgeting, preparation of financial reports, preparation of financial accounts and costing.
• Experience of Business Case option appraisal and preparing plans for financial and people aspects of service provision contributing to the medium term financial strategy.
• Experience of setting targets and delivering change in partnership with other organisations
• Experience of close working with non-financial professionals, including clinicians, to improve health services
• Experience of large financial ledger systems
• Project management experience including negotiation skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of NHS Community Provider finance function
• Experience of Service Line Reporting

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Expert knowledge of management accounting and costing procedures, financial regulations and other legislation and NHS finance policies.
• Highly developed knowledge of accountancy procedures and principles
• Highly developed Knowledge of General Ledger/Reporting Systems
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a co-operative multi-disciplinary and team based working environment.
• Ability to form, build, develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
• Able to summarise and communicate provide highly complex finance information to non-finance personnel
• Able to draft, type, format, prepare and produce a wide range of high quality documentation, letters, emails, memos, statistical information, graphics, presentations and short reports.
• Able to identify risk and assess likelihood and impact and to make and communicate informed judgments as to level of risk and benefits and offer ranked alternative options
• Excellent data analysis skills for interpretation and comparison of highly complex data from various sources. Able to identify patterns in data and understanding linkages to consider financial trends and forecasts and to investigate and explain variances to budget holders
• Ability to review and improve finance systems and implement financial controls where necessary
• Excellent Microsoft Excel to Advanced Level, Word, Outlook and financial information and management system skills.
• Demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality issues regarding patients, staff and sensitive Trust matters
• Knowledge of Service Line Reporting

Other

Essential criteria

• Professional manner and mature approach to dealing with confidential and sensitive issues and information
• Strong customer focus and proven ability to build productive relationships at all levels of the organisation while maintaining robust adherence to the agreed control framework.
• Self-motivated and able to prioritise, manage and deliver to timetable
• Personally effective in gaining agreement and support from others

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Job description and Person specification (PDF, 792.3KB)
• Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)