Client:
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB Location:
Amersham, United Kingdom Job Category:
Other EU work permit required:
Yes Job Reference:
721181f4388f Job Views:
8 Posted:
22.01.2025 Expiry Date:
08.03.2025 Job Description:
Job summary Are you a finance professional looking to make a real impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment? Join our team as a Finance Business Partner, where you will play a key role in delivering excellent financial management services to our Integrated Care Board (ICB). This is an opportunity to develop your career while working closely with senior leaders, healthcare providers, and stakeholders across the system. You will act as a financial expert and key link across multiple contracts, supporting the business in achieving its performance and efficiency goals. Main duties of the job Partner the senior Operational Teams within their dedicated Directorate to ensure they receive the business and financial support needed to run their Directorate. Work in close partnership with the directorate to help drive transformation and value for money. Be part of a team of Finance professionals, responsible for providing an expert financial management service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporate departments. Lead and be responsible for monthly reporting for these areas, including income and expenditure, ensuring that information produced is robust, accurate, and owned by appropriate individuals. Support the development of Cost Improvement Programme schemes (CIPs) and the financial modeling of service developments, ensuring that information produced is robust, accurate, and plans are deliverable. Support the Head of System Reporting and Corporate with the development and implementation of the ICB's medium to long-term strategy. Assist the Head of System Reporting and Corporate in delivering corporate tasks and objectives, assuming responsibility for a range of tasks. Work with and cover Directorate Business Partners to ensure the senior team in the Directorates are supported in their decisions and running of the Directorate. About us In the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers the geography across three counties and aligns with the local authority boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire, and Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly a million. While overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence, we have pockets of severe deprivation. Our constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3 acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance trust, and a single operating model across all of this, spending a significant amount of public money each year. We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates, and from people with lived experience of disability, who are all under-represented in these important roles. Job Responsibilities
What We're Looking For: AAT Qualified or CCAB Part-Qualified or equivalent experience in a similar role. Experience in producing finance reports, ledger management, and variance analysis. Strong Excel and financial systems skills. Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines. A proactive approach to problem-solving and improving processes. Why Join Us? Career Growth: Develop your skills in a supportive and dynamic finance team. Make an Impact: Help drive financial efficiency and service improvement across the ICB. Work-Life Balance: Flexible working opportunities available. Person Specification
Essential Experience: Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in an appropriate and discreet manner. Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Ability to make decisions autonomously on difficult issues, working to often changing and tight timescales. Ability to question and challenge budget holders and other staff where appropriate to hold them accountable for budgetary spend. Ability to gain clinical engagement. Excellent inter-personal skills including negotiation with staff on challenging and detailed issues. Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing, and presentation skills; capable of delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately. Must be able to prioritise own work effectively, manage and motivate a team, and review individual performance. Excellent Microsoft Office skills and advanced Excel. Excellent customer service skills. Knowledge of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it. Ability to work well with colleagues of diverse identities and contribute to a positive culture. Demonstrate professional integrity, civility, and respect in the workplace. Qualifications: CCAB qualified or equivalent with 2-5 years post qualification experience at a senior level inside or outside the NHS. Post qualification experience in a financial management role (2 years or more). Wide knowledge of NHS financial regime, acquired through equivalent experience or training. Experience of assessing value for money opportunities and evaluating transformation projects. Evidenced continuous professional development record. Equality & Diversity: The organisation is committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all staff and for those who access services. You must work in accordance with equal opportunity policies/procedures, and promote and contribute to the equality, diversity, and inclusion plans of the organisation.
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