Senior Finance and Performance Analyst Band 6

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George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women's, children's, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.

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Job overview

Job Title: Senior Finance and Performance Analyst

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working pattern - 3 days office based in Nuneaton - 2 days home based)

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary : £37,338- £44,962 per annum

Closing Date: 9th February 2025

Interview Date: 26th February 2025

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

#JoinTeamEliot

Dependent on the successful candidates existing qualifications, skills and experience, a development pathway towards future higher banding possibilities will be created to support their ongoing development and their ability to apply their skills and experience across the Trusts financial functions. The successful candidate must be willing to undertake a development pathway and hold a CCAB qualification or be willing to work towards.

Main duties of the job

Are you a finance professional with NHS Experience?

Recently qualified or finalist accountant?

Want to work in an award-winning team, passionate about creating change and making a difference?

Then this could be the role for you!

• Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner you will be working with our Surgery & Clinical Support Services Directorates (circa. £75m expenditure budgets).
• In addition to the providing accurate and relevant financial information to operational management teams, you will provide holistic financial advice on all business related aspects of their services. This will include, but is not limited to; budget management (income & expenditure), capital investments, development of business cases, identification of savings programmes, service re-designs etc.
• You will be supporting service leads to understand, monitor and actively manage their monthly financial performance; ensuring issues or queries are addressed and/or escalated if necessary.
• You will work closely with service leads, enabling them to freely interpret financial information and control financial variances, offering guidance & advice, allowing potential financial issues to be identified at an early stage, and for effective mitigations to be put in place.
• You will support the financial monitoring of Cost & Productivity Improvement Programmes, ensuring schemes are identified with clear rationale, and measured appropriately, and in a timely manner.

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide financial management support for one or more Directorates providing high quality information, support and advice ensuring a cohesive approach to activity, income, expenditure and workforce.
• To work closely with the clinical & operational managers and relevant budget holders.
• To support the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial and strategic issues.
• To support the Head of Financial Management in providing financial reporting, planning, forecasting and advisory service at a Directorate level to the senior management team and Directors.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of working with senior clinicians (or equivalent)
• Evidence of experience of financial management accounts in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
• Experience of supporting the annual financial planning and budget setting process
• Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
• Experience of analysing and using non-financial as well as financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making

Desirable criteria

• Acute Sector experience
• Experience of procurement
• Experience of analysing and using non-financial information in business planning, reporting and decision making
• Financial reporting experience in the NHS, other public sector or large commercial organisation
• Experience of staff management

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Understanding of NHS planning and reporting processes
• Able to create and develop spreadsheets
• Able to apply appropriate costing methodologies in accordance with best practice
• Ability to contribute to the understanding of financial information of CBUs and the Trust
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Good interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills
• Ability to develop innovative problem-solving approaches and to work to demanding timescales
• Detailed knowledge of General Ledger systems and reporting tools. Able to handle large quantities of data and evaluate complex financial problems
• Good report writing skills

Desirable criteria

• Application of change management tools and techniques
• Programming or software knowledge working with highly complex systems and a variety of information sources
• Ability to handle complex budgets and manage change
• Have experience of supporting the production of financials for business cases
• Ability to make judgements, assess and quantify risk and determine the impact of decisions and actions on the organisation

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Professional and personal credibility and integrity
• Team player
• Able both to lead and to support others to achieve objectives
• Calm and resolute under pressure

Please note:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC where all subsequent information regarding your application will be generated. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails/messages sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

By applying for this post you are consenting to George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system, TRAC.

The Job application data you provide will be used to assess your application for employment at GEH, to verify your information and conduct reference checks, and to communicate with you. If you accept employment with GEH, the information collected will become part of your employment record and will be used for employment purposes.

All information provided will be used for recruitment purposes only and processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.

Other:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.

In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual - taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.

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Documents to download

• Job Description Band 6 (PDF, 800.5KB)
• Person Spec Band 6 (PDF, 456.6KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 648.5KB)
• Person Spec Band 7 (PDF, 40.8KB)
• Job Description Band 7 (PDF, 380.2KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 620.0KB)