Finance Business Partner - Financial Management

Qualifications and Skills: To thrive in this role, you need to be CCAB or CIMA qualified with a strong background in Financial Management. We're seeking a forward-thinking, proactive individual who can lead their team in supporting the strategic direction of the Finance Directorate and the Trust. Your Impact: You'll have the opportunity to unleash your personal and professional skills, contributing to the continuous improvement of our finance services. Please note this post is restricted to staff from Lancashire and South Cumbria Organisations, Strategic Financial Advice: Provide expert financial advice to the division, navigating both income and expenditure landscapes to ensure optimal resource utilization. Complex Problem Resolution: Investigate and advise on highly complex business management issues. Your insights will be crucial in enhancing financial awareness, ands improving business performance. Financial Performance Enhancement: Strive for continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance financial performance, driving efficiency and effectiveness. Expertise: Leverage your financial acumen and business savvy to unravel intricate financial challenges and provide strategic solutions. Visionary Leadership: Steering the division towards financial success, efficiency, effectiveness, and a patient-centric approach. Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to ensure a unified and holistic approach to financial management, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence., Relationship Building: Actively engage with internal stakeholders, ensuring robust connections with Divisional and Directorate leads, Transformation teams, and Financial Advisors. Drive clinical and non-clinical engagement for a harmonious work environment. Financial Management: Take the lead in developing service line reporting, ensuring accurate allocation of income and costs. Efficiently manage budgetary control systems for income and expenditure, facilitating the achievement of targets for Directorates and the Trust. Strategic Advisory: Provide insightful advice and recommend alternative courses of action to enhance financial performance. Ensure the financial advisory service is efficient and effective, contributing to the overall financial agenda of the Trust. Team Leadership: Provide overall management and supervision to the Divisional Financial Management Team, fostering an efficient and timely service. Support staff development and contribute to the broader goals of the Trust. Performance Reporting: Deliver complex reports on financial performance for the division to the Assistant Finance Director and Executive Team, ensuring timely and accurate information.

• Highly developed specialist/expert knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
• Builds and develops multidisciplinary teams, and maintains constructive working relationships at all levels and disciplines
• High personal standard of conduct and behaviour and ability to act as a role model encouraging others to value and respect staff and stakeholders and holds others to account for this
• Extensive experience in an NHS Finance environment and/or extensive post qualification financial management experience.
• Expert knowledge of costing and pricing methodologies
• Extensive experience of working with others to ensure direction and policies are attainable within available resources
• Knowledge, experience and expertise in a senior finance management role
Desirable criteria
• Acute Sector experience, CCAB or CIMA full member
• Participation in the Continuing Professional Development Programme.
Desirable criteria
• Leadership qualification, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
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About Us: With over 1000 beds, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals stands as a beacon of healthcare excellence. Our specialties range from the conventional to the extraordinary, as we proudly serve as a Tertiary Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in Neurosciences, Trauma, Oncology, and Renal Medicine. Your Impact: Be part of a team that's not just meeting healthcare needs but exceeding them. Whether you're in Neurosciences, Trauma, Oncology, or Renal Medicine, your contribution matters. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is the nexus where expertise meets compassion, and we're inviting you to make a difference. Open to All Applications: This is not just a job; it's a calling. One LSC and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust welcomes applications from individuals across various trusts, fostering diversity, and enriching our healthcare community.