Finance Business Partner

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Site: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Central London
Salary: £70,387 - £80,465 pro rata, per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/03/:59

Job overview

We are delighted to be working with Great Ormond Street Hospital as they seek an experienced and dynamic Finance Business Partner to join the team and partner with senior operational teams across a dedicated directorate. This role plays a critical part in providing expert financial management support and challenge to drive the successful operation of clinical units and corporate departments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial management, team leadership, and the ability to provide strategic financial guidance to ensure the success of the trust's long-term goals.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious and experienced finance professional to make a real impact within a dynamic organization. You will play a key role in shaping the future of the trust's financial strategy, while supporting a team of talented finance professionals. If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding position with opportunities for career progression, then please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

1. Strategic Financial Support: Partner with senior management within the directorate to provide financial guidance, support, and challenge, ensuring that operational teams receive the business and financial support they need to meet their objectives.
2. Team Leadership: Lead a team of finance professionals, including Finance Managers, Assistant Finance Managers, and Management Accountants, ensuring the delivery of high-quality financial management information for clinical and corporate units.
3. Financial Reporting & Forecasting: Oversee the monthly reporting of income and expenditure, ensuring the accuracy, robustness, and ownership of financial data across the portfolio. Develop and manage forecasting systems and models in collaboration with other departments to ensure data integrity and accurate financial planning.
4. Cost Improvement & Service Development: Support the development and modelling of Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) schemes, working closely with managers and clinicians to ensure efficiency and deliverability. Lead the financial modelling of service developments and business cases.
5. Team Development & Performance Management
6. Business & Financial Strategy
7. Reporting & Analysis: Produce high-quality financial reports for clinical boards, the CFO, and external stakeholders.
8. Budgeting & Planning

Working for our organisation

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women's staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust's mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification GOSH Culture and Values

• Consolidated GOSH values
• Qualified CCAB Accountant.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience/Knowledge

• Significant financial management experience at a senior level.
• Staff management experience including recruitment, selection, objective setting, appraisals and managing performance.
• Effective team leadership
• Presentation of highly complex financial and non-financial information.
• Inspiring confidence & developing highly effective working relationships with finance, clinical and non-finance colleagues, including those at a senior level.
• Successful challenge of information and assumptions
• Presentation of financial information and leading financial discussions at senior management and executive level meetings.
• Identifying opportunities for change and successful management of the change process.
• Use of financial ledgers & reporting tools
• Awareness of current NHS priorities
• Principles of service line reporting & patient level costing
• Significant financial management experience in the NHS
• Supporting managers and clinicians in the use of service line reporting & patient level cost information
• Business Objects

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong report writing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Advanced excel skills
• Financial analysis and forecasting
• Ability to work under pressure and plan / prioritise workload
• Ability to use own initiative
• Self-motivated
• Proactive & innovative approach to problem solving
• Professional
• Excellent team leader

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.