Finance Business Partner - Financial Management

Key Responsibilities: Strategic Financial Advice: Provide expert financial advice to the division, navigating both income and expenditure landscapes to ensure optimal resource utilization. Complex Problem Resolution: Investigate and advise on highly complex business management issues. Your insights will be crucial in enhancing financial awareness, ands improving business performance. Financial Performance Enhancement: Strive for continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance financial performance, driving efficiency and effectiveness. Expertise: Leverage your financial acumen and business savvy to unravel intricate financial challenges and provide strategic solutions. Visionary Leadership: Steering the division towards financial success, efficiency, effectiveness, and a patient-centric approach. Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to ensure a unified and holistic approach to financial management, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.,

• Relationship Building: Actively engage with internal stakeholders, ensuring robust connections with Divisional and Directorate leads, Transformation teams, and Financial Advisors. Drive clinical and non-clinical engagement for a harmonious work environment.
Financial Management: Take the lead in developing service line reporting, ensuring accurate allocation of income and costs. Efficiently manage budgetary control systems for income and expenditure, facilitating the achievement of targets for Directorates and the Trust. Strategic Advisory: Provide insightful advice and recommend alternative courses of action to enhance financial performance. Ensure the financial advisory service is efficient and effective, contributing to the overall financial agenda of the Trust. Team Leadership: Provide overall management and supervision to the Divisional Financial Management Team, fostering an efficient and timely service. Support staff development and contribute to the broader goals of the Trust. Performance Reporting: Deliver complex reports on financial performance for the division to the Assistant Finance Director and Executive Team, ensuring timely and accurate information.

Qualifications and Skills: To thrive in this role, you need to be CCAB or CIMA qualified with a strong background in Financial Management. We're seeking a forward-thinking, proactive individual who can lead their team in supporting the strategic direction of the Finance Directorate and the Trust.,
• Highly developed specialist/expert knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
• Builds and develops multidisciplinary teams, and maintains constructive working relationships at all levels and disciplines
• High personal standard of conduct and behaviour and ability to act as a role model encouraging others to value and respect staff and stakeholders and holds others to account for this
• Extensive experience in an NHS Finance environment and/or extensive post qualification financial management experience.
• Expert knowledge of costing and pricing methodologies
• Extensive experience of working with others to ensure direction and policies are attainable within available resources
• Knowledge, experience and expertise in a senior finance management role
Desirable criteria
• Acute Sector experience, CCAB or CIMA full member
• Participation in the Continuing Professional Development Programme.
Desirable criteria
• Leadership qualification, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work., Unlock your potential and elevate your career with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust!
Who We Are: With a robust turnover of £750 million and a dedicated team of 10,000 staff, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is a Foundation Trust known for its commitment to delivering exceptional healthcare services., Why Choose Lancashire Teaching Hospitals:
• A vibrant, diverse, and inclusive healthcare community
• Cutting-edge facilities and technology
• Opportunities for continuous professional development
• A culture that values and recognizes your contributions
About Us: With over 1000 beds, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals stands as a beacon of healthcare excellence. Our specialties range from the conventional to the extraordinary, as we proudly serve as a Tertiary Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in Neurosciences, Trauma, Oncology, and Renal Medicine. Your Impact: Be part of a team that's not just meeting healthcare needs but exceeding them. Whether you're in Neurosciences, Trauma, Oncology, or Renal Medicine, your contribution matters. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is the nexus where expertise meets compassion, and we're inviting you to make a difference. Open to All Applications: This is not just a job; it's a calling. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust welcomes applications from individuals across various trusts, fostering diversity, and enriching our healthcare community., The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

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• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £42.90 and for a Standard Disclosure £22.90 which includes a small handling fee.