Finance Business Partner

Main area Finance Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent: Secondment applicants are welcome. Please state this in your application. Hours

• Full time
• Home or remote working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 213-CORP-

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Coldharbour Works Building Town London Salary £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inc HCA's Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/:59

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

A career opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

Planning and Development

• Produce financial plans for the division that meets the financial objectives of the Trust
• Develop, implement and monitor the financial components of the Divisions Annual Plan ensuring that efficient systems are available to allow income and expenditure plans to be projected for up to 3 years.
• Lead in the development of divisional CIP schemes. To review CIP plans for the services within their divisions, challenging assumptions and assessing risk to ensure scheme information is robust, accurate and deliverable.
• Lead on investment appraisal and highly complex financial analysis of divisional development proposals and business cases, both internal and external to the Trust. To work closely with the capital team to ensure that the impacts of capital costs are fully factored into revenue business cases and vice versa.
• Present highly complex financial information to Executive Directors, Divisional Managers, Divisional Clinical Directors and other Senior Managers within the Trust
• Analyse and identify the consequences and risks of short and long-term impact of local service changes and national financial decisions.

Person specification Qualifications

• Qualified CCAB accountant, with substantial post qualification experience at a senior level
• Educated to Degree level
• Full working knowledge of General Ledger system and associated software
• Appropriate understanding of the different accounting treatments required for the NHS by legislation or Department of Health policies

Experience

• Significant management accounting experience at a senior level
• Significant experience of the NHS or similar clinical environment
• Staff management experience including recruitment, selection, objective setting, appraisals and managing performance

Skills

• Expert understanding of management accounting processes and best practice. Including forecasting, modelling, trend analysis
• Detailed knowledge of the commissioning regime; knowledge of the structure of the national tariff, and the effects of policies such as QIPP, CQUINS and emergency readmissions on divisional income
• Detailed and up to date understanding of the Local and National key financial policies: Standing Financial Instructions, Standing Orders, Budgetary Control Policy, Establishment control policies, the wider NHS financial regime
• Knowledge of other non-financial KPIs and the interdependency with the financial position, e.g. 18 weeks, 4-hour ED target, Cdiff and MRSA

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