Senior Finance Manager
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management responsibilities
- Manage, lead, motivate and develop a team of management accountants.
- Responsible for carrying out staff appraisals in accordance with the Trust's Personal Development Review (PDR) process.Assist in the recruitment and development of high quality permanent and temporary management accounting and finance staff.
- Plan and organise the team's workload to achieve departmental and organisational objectives.
- Deputise for the Associate Director - Financial Management and Planning.
- Liaise with directors and business managers to ensure that the service provided by the management accounts team meets their requirements.
- Deliver regular Financial and Business Information management training to managers throughout the Trust.
Leadership
- Accountable to the Director of Finance
- Responsible for the development of the directorate finance team
Clinical
- Assist service users during incidental contact.
Research
- Design and instigate audits and surveys within own work area and within the Finance function. Analyse the results of these audits and surveys and use the information obtained to improve financial, business and departmental performance.
- Participate in local and national benchmarking exercises.
Communication
- Provide highly complex verbal, written and graphical financial and business information to both finance/business and non-finance/business staff in a clear and persuasive way.
- Communicate potentially contentious and sensitive financial and business information to large groups of managers and staff, receive feedback and deal with this appropriately.
- Advise on financial, business information and other issues in circumstances where there could be resistance to hearing the advice offered.
- Use personal influence to persuade managers of the benefits of pursing certain courses of action.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB qualified
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge
Experience
Essential criteria
- 5 to 8 years post qualification experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge - health sector
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
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
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 312.4KB)
- Important Additional Information For Candidates (please read carefully) (PDF, 160.6KB)
- Privacy Notice for Staff (PDF, 268.6KB)
- Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.5MB)