Senior Divisional Finance Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Onelsc within East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and we are looking to recruit a Senior Divisional Finance Manager for the Medicine & Emergency Care (MEC) Division.

Are you highly motivated and can you make a difference? This role is pivotal to the Division and the Finance Department providing financial leadership, advice, training and support to ensure the achievement of financial targets and reporting requirements.

We are seeking an excellent communicator, a team player, someone who enjoys a challenge and is motivated by financial continual improvements.

You need to be a CCAB qualified accountant with experience of working closely with Divisional Directors, Clinicians, Directorate Managers and budget holders.

Please note a presentation will be required at interview - information to be sent prior to the interview.

• Financial Planning & Budgeting
• Performance Management and Reporting
• Business Planning
• Income and Activity Analysis

Financial Planning & Budgeting

Ensure that the resources required to deliver the Division's service plans and targets are accurately identified, costed and translated into budgets, and that they are realistic yet challenging and demonstrate improvements in efficiency.

Responsibility for providing financial advice, analysis, and reporting of the Division's Waste Reduction Programme (WRP), both to the division and centrally. Ensuring mandates are completed and the schemes are worked through and reconciled.

Responsibility for providing direction on the Division's budgets, consistent with the overall financial framework, and to the Finance staff during the annual budget setting process.

Ensuring the budget setting outputs are a true representation of the Division's financial requirements.

Responsibility for the maintenance and reconciliation of the recurring and non-recurring budgetary position for both the financial and staffing budgets on a monthly basis.

Performance Management and Reporting

Provide the Divisions and Directorates with expert financial advice, support and information to assist them in the achievement of their annual financial objectives. This advice should encompass budget, expenditure, income, service level reporting, plics and procurement issues. It may involve the analysis of a range of options, highlighting the advantages/disadvantages of each with an assessment of any potential risks. Issues may be complex or sensitive, may require in depth analysis or judgement or may be confidential or contentious in nature.

It may also involve resolving queries at short notice.

Provide budget holders with timely and accurate monthly budget reports including interpretation and advice, and to meet regularly with them to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early, and to provide recommendations on corrective action as necessary.

Provide a written and verbal monthly report on the financial position of the division, identifying all key overspending areas, and actions being taken to address them. This will include explanation of significant movements for inclusion in the Trust Board report.

Provide detailed forecast outturn reports on a monthly basis, with identification of any emerging pressures, or other threats to financial viability, and an assessment of corrective action being taken.

Develop information systems to enable budgetary control, and financial reporting information to enable analysis of run rates and variances to be linked to performance against key activity, manpower and quality targets. In particular, providing an overall coordination of income, activity and cost.

Identify potential areas for improved efficiency and provide direction in the delivery and monitoring of cash releasing efficiency savings.

Develop systems to monitor and maximise income opportunities within division.

Attend divisional and directorate performance management meetings at both strategic and operational levels; provide financial input and advice, as well as giving regular reports either verbal or written on the divisions financial position. Participating in discussions and debates as appropriate.

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