• Extensive experience of working within a finance function.• Financial Analysis: A proven track record of providing high quality financial analysis and advice across a wide range of complex business and financial issues, with strong quantitative and analytical skills.• Stakeholder Management: Excellent stakeholder management and strong interpersonal skills, including experience of providing professional finance and corporate services to senior stakeholders and influencing business decisions.• MS Office Skills: Excellent Excel skills and a strong rounded knowledge of IT and accounting packages.• Communications: Ability to ensure plans and activities in your area of work reflect wider strategic priorities and communicate effectively with senior leaders to influence future strategies.• Leadership and Management: Strong leadership skills to lead a team of mixed experience and varying locations to deliver essential support to the HO Board members and their director’s.• Strong organisational ability and a proven track record of delivering to tight deadlines.• Experience of working with Oracle financial systems.• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, planning, collaborating, and delivering through others, to meet both short and longer-term deadlines.• Ability to promote an organisational culture that is positive about change and committed to delivery of the strategic vision.

•Lead, manage and develop a management accounts team, across different workstreams and finance to deliver performance and functional objectives.•Ensure staff have SMART objectives to achieve; conduct regular team reviews and lead on staff development.•Ensure that staff resources are used effectively, and workloads managed. •Manage staff issues arising and maintain team morale.•Lead monthly team meetings to ensure common learning is delivered and the team is kept informed of current changes.•Monitor the quality of the forecasts in terms of accuracy and volatility against actual income and expenditure. •Review budget and forecast models to maximise simplicity and transparency; ensure a common interpretation and acceptance of outputs. •Develop automated tools and generic templates to generate trend-based forecasts efficiently and consolidate monthly forecasts. Work with Metis and Home Office Technology to exploit innovative technology as it becomes available.•Clearly communicate process changes, ensuring that impacts on other business areas are understood and escalating risks as necessary.•Develop budgets for future years with the finance business partners and the business.•Ensure budgets, forecasts and analysis includes relevant balance sheet items.•Co-ordinate the delivery of financial information to be discussed at quarterly challenge sessions with the DG.•Oversee the production of local board reports based on standardised dashboards, adding commentary by exception for material variances or risks.•Oversee the production of the monthly DDAT Board report; for DDAT SMT used to make key strategic and operational decisions.•Oversee agreed monthly milestones for producing dashboard reports; ensuring generic reports are produced and distributed efficiently.•Develop and improve the dashboard reports, exploiting innovative technology as it becomes available; championing self-service report access amongst budget holders.

•Demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills; able to successfully foster and manage inter-relationships between own team and other areas. Experience of creating a common purpose and of instilling organisational values and behaviours that promote a corporate vision. •Assist Budget Managers to manage their budget through regular monthly meetings and financial reporting •Proven experience of working in a multi-stakeholder environment; the ability to deal with and meet conflicting stakeholder preferences and demands. •Work confidently with financial data and systems when making decisions; interpret trends, issues and risks and where appropriate investment appraisals.•Day-to-day management of the underpinning Spending Review data (financial and non-financial). This will include the creation and maintenance of a detailed database/repository of data that can be manipulated/modelled to present data in line with potential planning assumptions.•Building and maintaining strong working relationships with portfolio and business leads in both DDaT and the wider systems/business areas•Working with business and portfolio leads and finance colleagues to ensure that all data is reconciled and that there is only ‘one version of the truth’ allowing for all decisions/recommendations to be based on a credible data-set.•Working with finance colleagues and portfolio/business areas to ensure all data and decisions have clearly articulated planning assumptions•Developing and maintaining data capture templates, working with finance and portfolio leads to ensure these templates are completed accurately, and on time•Representing DDaT at Spending Review Governance/Working Groups as necessary•Creation of supporting data/input to briefings for senior managers/DDaT SR steering committee as needed, often at short notice.•Working closely with the VAT Team to understand how the rules and regulations of reclaiming VAT from both onshore and offshore companies.

• Performing as an active member of the hospital Senior Leadership Team• Providing commercial support to the Hospital Manager/Director and Senior Leadership Team.• Partnering with business leaders to assess the effectiveness of processes and the ongoing profitability of clinical procedures• The production of monthly management accounts, financial reports and other required reports within Company guidelines, • The day to day management of all business processes that underpin NHS funded care, including but not limited to NHS reporting requirements, investigating financial challenges, preparation of activity & financial reconciliations.• Taking responsibility for the development and maintenance of relationships with all key CCG’s and stakeholders involved in activity management and financial reconciliation.• Preparing and reviewing the monthly finance pack / balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all reconciling items are investigated and corrected / adjusted as appropriate• Preparation of financial cases for capital expenditure requests, completing, reviewing and monitoring all post investment reviews to assess performance against assumptions• Reviewing and producing interim forecasts, annual budgets and strategic plans• Actively seek to find margin improvement opportunities across hospital operational performance• Support the Senior Leadership Team to manage and improve labour costs efficiency and resource management

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills; able to successfully foster and manage inter-relationships between own team and other areas. Experience of creating a common purpose and of instilling organisational values and behaviours that promote a corporate vision. • Analyse expenditure and VAT claims to ensure recoverable VAT is fully recovered • Proven experience of working in a multi-stakeholder environment; the ability to deal with and meet conflicting stakeholder preferences and demands. • A proven track record of providing high quality financial analysis and advice across a wide range of complex business and financial issues, with strong quantitative and analytical skills. • Work confidently with financial data and systems when making decisions; interpret trends, issues and risks and where appropriate investment appraisals. • Working closely with the VAT Team to understand how the rules and regulations of reclaiming VAT from both onshore and offshore companies.

• Support to the completion of the CCG annual Programme Budgeting submissions involving analysis of all income and expenditure and assignment to the national programmes in line with national guidance and national deadlines.• Analysis of benchmarking outputs from the published national Programme Budgeting data to identify areas where the CCGs may be an outlier and why to support future strategy and decision making.• Analysis of Provider annual published Reference Costs data to determine any areas where local providers are outliers to support future strategy and decision making.• Analysis of Continuing Healthcare national benchmarking data on a quarterly basis to determine the CCGs position nationally and changes to this to support future strategy and monitor the impact of the current CCG QIPP plan.• Support to the Head of Finance in the month end reporting and forecasting of all mental health, learning disabilities and Continuing Healthcare areas and liaising with other finance team members to ensure these are accurately reflected in the CCG ledgers. This includes variance analysis and understanding of monthly changes in position.• Support to the Head of Finance in the monthly reporting and forecasting of QIPP delivery of all mental health and continuing healthcare areas.• Compilation of the information to complete the Non ISFE requirements on reporting of the Mental Health Investment Standard ensuring alignment with the latest reported position in the ledger.• Discusses complex financial queries with staff internally and externally, of which some discussions may be contentious in nature.• Provides advice and guidance on complex financial issues to non-finance managers, where barriers to understanding may exist.• Suggests changes to and implements accounting policies and financial procedures in own area but these may also impact wider across the CCG.