Head of Financial Management

Overview

As the Head of Financial Management, you will play a pivotal leadership role within The Christie s Finance Division, providing strategic financial expertise and driving a culture of strong financial control across a range of clinical and non-clinical services. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Finance, you will lead specific sub-teams within the Financial Management function and act as a trusted partner to senior operational and clinical leaders.

You will be responsible for delivering high quality financial management, ensuring accurate, timely and insightful reporting, and supporting divisions to achieve financial balance. A key part of the role involves shaping financial planning, advising on service developments, and ensuring that divisional objectives align with the Trust s wider financial strategy. Acting as deputy to the Assistant Director of Finance, you will take ownership of teamwide responsibilities, lead on corporate financial projects, and represent Finance across a range of internal committees.

You will also play a central role in developing staff capability, embedding financial awareness, and ensuring compliance with statutory and internal financial requirements.

• Provide a high quality professional financial management advice and support service, acting as lead accountant and contact point for a range of clinical and non-clinical divisions. To ensure that these divisions/directorates achieve financial balance and that financial pressures are highlighted at an early stage and appropriate action identified. Continue to develop financial reporting and planning to reflect the needs of the divisions/directorates and improve accountability.
• Provide specialist strategic, financial and business skills input into the planning of any service development including strategic change within the division/directorate as appropriate, ensure that divisional/directorate objectives are affordable within available resources consistent with organisational financial strategy.
• Act as deputy for the Assistant Director of Finance (ADoF) and be accountable for specific team wide areas of responsibility, ensuring the ADoF is kept informed of divisional and team issues.
• Lead on and provide input to projects within finance or across the Trust as assigned.
• Coordinate the production of Trust/divisional monthly financial management information in line with agreed timetables and to feed into the trust reporting framework with reports taken to internal committees as well as reported externally. Internal committees to include divisional board, capital and workforce planning group, drugs management committee, research committee, charitable funds committee, management board and trust board of directors.
• Coordinate the budget setting process for division(s)/directorates by establishing and maintaining systems and procedures and ensuring the production of working papers to enable the formulation of the Trust budget book. Contribute to the financial planning process to enable the formation to the Trust s annual plan.
• Interpret financial information and communicate variances from budget and any areas of potential risk to senior managers and offer guidance and advise to enable action plans to be formulated which maximise the financial resources available.
• Proactively assist colleagues in managing budgets and continually act to promote financial control and stewardship to safeguard the use of funds and promote value for money and ensure the appropriate use of funds within the division/directorate.
• In conjunction with the division(s) and the Programme Management Office, proactively identify, monitor and evaluate schemes to ensure achievement of Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) targets, and contribute to CIP working groups by being the nominated finance representative.
• Accurately forecast the year end financial position of the division/directorates on a monthly basis to enable the year-end position for the trust/charity to be provided to the board.
• Act corporately, upholding the professionalism, position and focus of the Finance Directorate, whilst also being an integral and trusted member of the divisional team(s).
• As a member of divisional board(s), develop a close working relationship with other members of the board and divisional senior management team. Present financial information to clinicians, managers and other staff to improve financial awareness and efficiency.
• As a senior member of the division(s), contribute to the effective operation of the division(s), leading on projects where appropriate.
• Provide the division with information on the links between the achievement of performance targets and the financial performance of the division. This will include advising the divisional board on Local Delivery Plan s; cost and price implications of service changes and advising of financial implications of changes to local tariff and payment by results.
• Link with the Income, Costing and Contracting team in the production…