Finance Manager - Financial Strategy and Planning

Finance Manager - Financial Strategy and Planning NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area: Finance
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent (Will also accept secondment requests)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 213-CORP A

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Coldharbour Works Building
Town: Brixton
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc HCA's
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/: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.

Job overview

The Finance Manager - Financial Strategy and Planning, is an integral part of the Financial Planning and Investment team with responsibility for building, overseeing, challenging and supporting the Trust's change management programmes to meet its 3/5-year Cost Improvement Plan (CIP) targets.

The post holder will work with senior clinical and operational colleagues to ensure the effective monitoring of delivery of key schemes. The post holder will be responsible for the maintenance, development and management of the project benefit realisation tracking system, ensuring adequacy of governance and control arrangements/systems, with exception highlighting on risks and obstacles for both the Trust and NHSE.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for ensuring effective operation of key governance meetings (including multiple programme, oversight and control boards) terms of reference are produced and maintained, preparing and co-ordinating papers, reports, minutes, decisions and actions.

Provide expertise on programme structuring, planning, benefits quantification and tracking on behalf of the PMO, ensuring that outputs and benefits are defined within the overall project scope and that programmes are delivered on time, within budget and to the required standard of quality.

Hold SRO's (Senior Responsible Owners) to account for delivery of programmes, including - via the PMO - the provision of a high quality programme management and reporting service to senior Boards and other meetings as required.

Ensure the development of the CIP Programmes and review key performance indicators in relation to goals and outcomes and that project delivery is monitored.

Lead on the qualitative and quantitative analysis and project audit as part of the benefit realisation process.

Project Management

Undertake the project management role for assigned projects.

Design an appropriate and proportionate project structure which will enable successful delivery including outcomes, products, objectives, scope, credible project plans, risks, interdependencies, benefits and resources in collaboration with others.

Make decisions on a range of highly complex issues where there may be more than one course of action.

Working for our organisation

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Reporting

Receive, process, summarise, interpret and effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.

Responsible for development of regular and ad-hoc management information reports that support management decision-making, performance, planning and evaluation.

Oversee maintenance of all the required trackers including adherence to version control.

Produce weekly risk assessed CIP forecast and actuals reports to the appropriate Board.

Work with the Director to establish an effective programme risk management framework.

Responsible for the on-going risk management, monitoring and implementation of the CIP programme.

Data Analysis

Work with the team to provide analytical support (financial, qualitative and quantitative) to continually develop and refine the CIP Programme.

Communications and Stakeholder Management

Develop, maintain and deliver an internal communications programme for the PMO.

Manage highly complex professional interactions to deliver expected benefits and remedy identified underperformance issues.

Finance

Support the Financial Planning Manager in the production of the weekly risk assessed CIP forecast and actuals reports to the appropriate Boards.

Person specification Qualifications

• Actively studying towards CCAB qualification

Experience

• A proven track record of delivery in a PMO environment and business/project planning
• Significant senior experience in managing major change programmes and projects within the NHS or comparable large organisation
• Experience working in the Healthcare sector / acute hospitals

Skills

• Programme and project management skills
• Financial acumen including experience of effective budget management and control
• Ability to develop a small team of skilled professionals

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