An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director of Strategic Financeto join our Finance Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

The purpose of this role is to provide financial leadership to support the Divisional & Corporate teams alongside the PMO and Transformation team in using all available informatics to deliver a sustainable financial plan for the next 3-5 years ensuring clinical quality and safety is maintained.

Main duties of the job

The main focus of the Associate Director of Strategic Finance are:

• Business planning
• To lead and support the long-term planning and oversight of the financial recovery and transformational change required to establish a stable and sustainable financial position for the Trust and
• To lead the financial and economic support for major projects (such as, for example, the Children's Cancer Centre)

This role will focus on utilising and understanding all available benchmarking data to drive conversations across the Trust to reset the underlying financial position. The role will provide expert knowledge and advice to the Trust and the wider system in relation to the benchmarked performance of the Trust. They will develop and maintain the narrative for the positioning of the Trust in these datasets to support improvements in financial performance and the standing of the Trust.

The post holder will lead on the planning and oversight of the financial aspects of the Trust's business planning and the associated recovery transformation programme, including long term planning, Better Value (CIP) delivery programmes, and major strategic developments.

They will develop expert knowledge of the positioning of the Trust in benchmarking performance data from a range of sources and utilise this to support service and financial performance improvement.

About us

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex, and difficult-to-treat conditions.

Great Ormond Street Hospital receives nearly 300,000 patient visits (inpatient admissions or outpatient appointments) every year (figures from 2018/19). Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities at GOSH the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. More than half of our patients come from outside London and GOSH is the largest paediatric centre in the UK for services including paediatric intensive care and cardiac surgery.

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from bias and discrimination.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view the attachment below.

Person Specification

Values

Essential

• Our Always values oAlways welcoming oAlways helpful oAlways expert oAlways one team
• Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

Essential

• CCAB Qualified Accountant
• Educated to first degree level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development

Desirable

• Project management qualification e.g., Prince 2, Managing Successful Projects of equivalent
• Better Business Case Foundation and Practitioner

Experience/Knowledge

Essential

• Substantial Senior Financial Management experience in the NHS Acute Trust Sector preferably in a large Teaching Hospital or a Specialist Provider.
• Experience of providing financial leadership to large scale CIP/Transformation programmes including assessing viability of initiatives, providing assurance on delivery of projects, and assessing benefits realisation.
• Experience of co-ordinating multiple complex projects with co-dependencies where demonstrable benefits were delivered.
• Subject matter expertise in financial and economic aspects of project and programme management analysis of project proposals and business case development understanding of the necessary stages of implementation of innovative projects in a health and social care environment.
• Working Knowledge of health and social care roles, responsibilities, priorities and policy direction.
• Experience and Knowledge of designing and implementing robust governance arrangements for major work programmes including ensuring compliance.

Desirable

• Experience of leading Major Projects and development of HM Treasury Green Book compliant business cases
• Knowledge of the main procurement legislation applicable to NHS and/or social care commissioned services.

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Excellent customer care skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate complex financial and activity information concisely and effectively to non-financial colleagues.
• Financial analysis, forecasting ability.
• Advanced reporting skills.
• Excellent budget setting skills.
• Able to interact credibly at a senior level in the organisation.
• Excellent financial modelling skills.
• Ability to motivate and lead staff.
• Corporate and commercial awareness.
• Proactive.
• Good team player.

Employer details

Employer name

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street

London

WC1N 3JH

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