• Lead a team of management accountants to provide highly complex strategic financial and business advice across two or more directorates. This will include providing formal complex financial and business presentations to large groups of non-finance/business staff conveying financial concepts in a clear and persuasive way.
• Analyse highly complex problems relating to business cases and make judgements on financial and business decisions relating to the allocation of finances.
• Plan and organise the work of the Management Accounts Team with key stakeholders in Directorates to deliver complex integrated monitoring and analysis across finance, costing, service line reporting, clinical and patient activity systems. Monitor and adjust strategies to meet the needs of stakeholders.
• Ensure that finance and business reports and analyses meet the Trust's financial, performance, legal and statutory requirements.
• Ensure the efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of finance and business systems and processes to provide high quality data and information.

Main duties of the job

Develop and strengthen working relationships with key stakeholders, developing financial and business strategy within directorates. Explain and present highly complex financial and business concepts and strategies to directors and other senior colleagues.

Provide comprehensive high quality financial and business across the Trust, making a significant contribution to the production of business cases and to the Trust's long and short term business planning processes.

Manage and co-ordinate the work of a team of management accountants to ensure that monthly income and expenditure and information reports are produced in accordance with Trust timetables and procedures.

Initiate service and system enhancements to meet changing customer demand.

Devise best practice principles and implement these throughout the department.

Prepare the Trust's monthly and annual financial and business information report ensuring that the information produced is complete and correct and that trends and variances are investigated and evaluated.

Provide highly complex financial and business information and advice to budget and service managers to enable them to manage resources efficiently and effectively.

Monitor financial and business performance and suggests service improvements where appropriate.

Monitor achievement of cost improvement plans.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

Management responsibilities

• Manage, lead, motivate and develop a team of management accountants.
• Responsible for carrying out staff appraisals in accordance with the Trusts Personal Development Review (PDR) process.Assist in the recruitment and development of high quality permanent and temporary management accounting and finance staff.
• Plan and organise the teams workload to achieve departmental and organisational objectives.
• Deputise for the Associate Director Financial Management and Planning.
• Liaise with directors and business managers to ensure that the service provided by the management accounts team meets their requirements.
• Deliver regular Financial and Business Information management training to managers throughout the Trust.

Leadership

• Accountable to the Director of Finance
• Responsible for the development of the directorate finance team

Clinical

• Assist service users during incidental contact.

Research

• Design and instigate audits and surveys within own work area and within the Finance function. Analyse the results of these audits and surveys and use the information obtained to improve financial, business and departmental performance.
• Participate in local and national benchmarking exercises.

Communication

• Provide highly complex verbal, written and graphical financial and business information to both finance/business and non-finance/business staff in a clear and persuasive way.
• Communicate potentially contentious and sensitive financial and business information to large groups of managers and staff, receive feedback and deal with this appropriately.
• Advise on financial, business information and other issues in circumstances where there could be resistance to hearing the advice offered.
• Use personal influence to persuade managers of the benefits of pursing certain courses of action.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• CCAB qualified

Desirable

• Knowledge

Experience

Essential

• 5 to 8 years post qualification experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge - health sector

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Dartford

Dartford

DA2 7WG

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