Role: Finance Business Partner
Contract Length: 3 months
Location: Gillingham
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £39.03 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
- The purpose of the Finance Business Partner is to ensure the provision of high-quality information and advice to Divisions and Directorates within the organisation, liaising with external organisations as appropriate.
- The post holder will look outwards to service providers and advise on budgetary control, efficiency and commercial considerations.
- The post holder will proactively ensure the appropriate use of resources and the provision of the optimum level of financial information and advice to managers at all levels.
- Working closely with other senior members of the finance team they will:
- Influence budgetary accountability by means of formal periodic reviews of all financial performance
- Lead and develop their team in delivering first class effective financial advice
- Ensure the financial management function delivers timely accurate information to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders promoting and creating a customer focussed ethos for the function.
- Provide and execute first line support in the development and prosecution of business cases
- Support the identification of cost efficiency and productivity opportunities within their respective Divisions using benchmarking information and being expert in using model hospital data.
- Role modelling efficiency and productivity within the Trust – propagating a culture of investing resource wisely and, first and foremost, preserving resource for high-quality patient care
- Be the communication conduit through which SLR information is developed and ultimately used within operational Divisions, proposing nuanced and prioritised opportunities for improvements in efficiency and productivity.
- Work as a team of Business Partners to upskill Divisional and fellow corporate colleagues in budgetary management and financial understanding
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
- CCAB fully qualified
- Master’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of CPD
- Current member of relevant professional bodies
- Expert knowledge of accounting policies and regulations
- Knowledge and understanding of strategic NHS issues and priorities
- Detailed knowledge of NHS and private sector financial management techniques and regulations, including investment appraisal, business case preparation and NHS costing methodologies
- Expert understanding of the NHS financial regime
- Three years PQE
- Experience of financial management in a complex organisation
- Experience of developing effective internal control environments
- Experience of development of efficiency improvement programmes
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to communicate with internal and external senior stakeholders
- Ability to present complex, sensitive and contentious information in a way that is understandable to the reader
- Ability to motivate staff to deliver change
- Capacity to analyse complex information from a variety of sources, both financial and non-financial
- Demonstrate ‘lean’ thinking on the delivery of financial services
- Clear ‘business focus’
- Able to interpret and provide sound judgement on highly complex issues
- Able to manage a multiplicity of targets and objectives
- Provide judgements regarding resource allocation where no precedent exists and where potential for disagreement at a senior level exists
- Required to plan and organise a broad range of complex and technical
If you are a Finance Business Partner, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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