Senior Finance Manager and Business Partner

Job summary

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Finance Manager and Business Partner to join our finance team. This is an important role within the finance directorate, supporting the delivery of robust financial management, budgetary control, financial planning and reporting across a designated portfolio of budgets and contracts as well as system development. Working as part of a professional and supportive team, you will provide high-quality financial advice and analysis to budget holders, commissioning colleagues and contracting leads, helping to ensure resources are used effectively and services are commissioned in line with the ICB's strategic priorities

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Finance Manager and Business Partner, you will lead the production of month-end reporting for your portfolio, including forecasting, planning and analysis of complex trends. You will support budget setting, contribute to annual and medium-term financial planning, and help prepare information for statutory financial returns, annual accounts, NHS England monthly returns, FOIs and other key reporting requirements. The role will involve interpreting complex financial information, investigating variances, identifying risks and opportunities, and presenting clear and timely advice to finance and non-finance colleagues.

This is also a business partnering role, working closely with colleagues across the ICB in a matrixed environment to support transformation, value for money and financial sustainability. Depending on portfolio allocation, the role may include areas such as healthcare contracting, individual placements and continuing healthcare, primary care and prescribing, corporate budgets, financial services, capital or estates. You will have the opportunity to support pathway design, contract monitoring, activity modelling, efficiency planning, forecasting and the development of improved financial systems, processes and reporting tools.

About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer

Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Strong numerical and verbal reasoning and leadership skills
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to identify several solutions.
• Able to think on their feet when dealing with issues and problems
• Plan and organise highly complex activities
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
• Plans and organises a broad range of highly complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Expert knowledge of finance and accounting practices, procedures and policies and legislation pertinent to the NHS
• Expert in providing financial advice and support to the relevant budget manager on a regular and timely basis, including the support around proposed and efficiency plans
• Leads by example and demonstrates system leadership
• Experience of leading and implementing medium- and long-term strategy in own service area.
• Significant experience of leading and managing staff in a senior role
• An understanding of the governance responsibilities of a statutory organisation.
• Significant understanding of NHS and/or public sector finance

Qualifications

Essential

• CCAB Qualified or significant appropriate experience

Desirable

• Educated to masters degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area supported by a professional development.
• Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development in NHS financial accounts policies
• Demonstrate significant experience of monitoring and adherence to budgets across a wide spectrum of services
• Evidence of drafting and agreement of highly complex budgets and to review those developed by others in the team and provide a mechanism for accurately monitoring performance against these budgets
• Experience of identifying and interpreting highly complex National policy and guidance to ensure successful implementation