Senior Commercial Finance Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated finance professional to join a high-performing finance team with a recognised and award winning reputation for excellence and team development. Working closely with the Chief Finance Officer, this role will support the Trust to meet its financial objectives through the planning, evaluation, delivery, and ongoing financial management of the Trust's private patient offering as well as supporting the Trust's commercial strategy.The role will influence strategic decision making by providing expert financial and commercial advice, engaging senior stakeholders and supporting the development and delivery of the Trust's Commercial Strategy. The role will be the lead finance specialist for private care activities, supporting development of the Trust's wider commercial strategy through assisting with business cases, analysing commercial opportunities and identifying and reporting on the associated financial implications.The role
will require highly developed analytical and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to pick things up quickly and manage competing priorities. We are looking for someone innovative, flexible, and pragmatic, that will proactively engage with key stakeholders. The role will lead the private care finance team and be an active member of the wider Finance Management Group, modelling inclusive and collaborative leadership behaviours that align to our values and that foster a sense of belonging across the team.

Main duties of the job

Financial:

As the finance lead for private care, develop tools to monitor the financial performance of private care, facilitating robust reporting and agile strategic decision making.

Drive profitable service development through the provision of insightful and accurate financial data

Proactively monitor the market to ensure our pricing strategy delivers maximum value, using this intelligence alongside a suite of financial performance tools to lead contract negotiations and strategic pricing reviews with private medical insurers.

Manage the billing and credit control function, ensuring efficient and timely revenue capture.

Strategy:

Through the delivery of robust financial analysis and management, play a significant role in the development of a private care strategy contributing to the long term financial strategy for the Trust.

Develop and manage a pipeline of commercial opportunities as well as maximising existing commercial projects.

Provide support and analysis in producing business cases for strategic decision making and investment.

Putting people first:

Model inclusive and collaborative behaviours that foster a sense of belonging. Coach, inspire and motivate the team and others, creating an empowering environment for all.

Stakeholder engagement:

Be the face of Private Patient finance, working collaboratively with clinical, operational and service leads to support the service whilst also providing stewardship to develop wider commercial projects and programmes.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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