Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust. For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword 'Whittington' By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Job overview The post-holder is responsible for providing a comprehensive range of financial information to support Trust management in making key decisions. This includes the collation of monthly financial management information and producing reports for external, internal purposing including Trust committee's and Trust Board. The post-holder is responsible for co-ordinating, developing and summarising Trust budgets. This will include responsibility for calculation and allocation of ICSU control totals, Cost Improvement targets and monitoring of these as part of the Trusts budget-setting process. Contributing and ensuring that these outputs are accurately reflected in the Trusts annual operating plan submission and monthly NHS Improvement financial returns. This post-holder will support the Assistant Director of Financial Management and Head's of Finance in developing and reviewing Trust business cases to ensure accuracy and robustness. Main duties of the job

Create and establish systems, procedures, guidelines, policies and timetables for Financial Reporting within the Trust to ensure the efficiency, integrity and effectiveness of process and the delivery of key strategic departmental & organisational objectives. Responsible for a monitoring and reporting regime, to provide advice and direction on all aspects of performance, including but not exclusively, finance, activity and workforce. Contribute to the monthly financial closedown within the Finance team, and to work with the Senior Finance team to produce the monthly financial position, including detailed monthly analysis and communication of variances. Ensure high quality accurate financial information and advice is provided to support managers and the Operational Director of Finance and Chief Finance Officer in effective decision making, including statutory returns and benchmarking returns to NHSE and DOH. Lead the annual financial planning and budget setting process across the Trust, coordinating the annual budget setting process with the Operational Director of Finance and Assistant Director - Financial Management. Provide financial input into service reconfiguration issues including business cases, option appraisals, cost benefit analyses, and reviewing financial modelling of business cases and tender submissions. Represent the Department at meetings as required and develop / restructure the Chart of Accounts to ensure it is fit for purpose. Lead responsibilities may include line management of staff, recruitment, supervision and performance review of team members.

Person specification Personal Qualities

Strong communication and engagement skills. Positive attitude, highly self-motivated and able to motivate others. Ability to work without supervision, provide specialist advice, and work to tight and changing timescales. Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.

Education

CCAB, CIMA or overseas equivalent qualified Accountant or equivalent knowledge and experience. Master’s Levels or equivalent experience. Evidence of recent and ongoing professional development.

Skills & Abilities

Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders. Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts. Ability to maintain, report and keep accurate records/working papers consistent with legislation, policies and procedures. Finance costing and modelling. Good organisational skills. Ability to plan and organise a range of activities or programmes. Formulates plans to support strategic objectives. Evidence of sound financial judgement. Evidence of policy and procedure development and implementation. Excellent listening, communication and presentation skills. Excellent writing skills, including the ability to summarise information and key issues.

Knowledge and Experience

Experience of working within a finance team at a senior level. Experienced at using all Microsoft packages to a high level.

Safeguarding To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines. Participate in required training and supervision. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your application Your application form

Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts. Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes

Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date, this may mean you have not been shortlisted. If you require feedback, contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence will be via trac.systems; occasionally these emails may go into your Junk folder. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Check eligibility under the UKVI points based system. Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities. In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely using TrustID. This includes capture of document images and a selfie for facial matching. TrustID may perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax. More information is available at www.trustid.co.uk. Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation will be scanned using a device which recognises security features of the documents provided. The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system. We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation Employer certification / accreditation badges Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. Application numbers This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment. Documents to download

HOF - Reporting (PDF, 296.4KB) Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB) Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)

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