Finance Business Partner

Job overview

Do you have the passion, motivation and enthusiasm to work in the NHS and contribute towards ensuring that NHS financial resources achieve the very best value for money for taxpayers and service users.

Are you a CCAB Qualified Accountant with excellent planning, organisation and communication skills?

Can you lead and manage a team?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join the Finance Directorate at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

The role will provide comprehensive financial management advice and expertise to managers across the Paramedic Emergency Services and Integrated Contact Centres.  This includes providing financial input to support service development decisions, leading the annual budget setting process and supporting in the delivery of productivity and efficiency developments.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a wide range of leadership skills and behaviours to ensure good governance, strong financial management and business acumen is embedded not just within the Management Accounts team but across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

Provide proactive financial leadership, advice and information to budget holders to deliver balanced budgets, support on key change projects, benchmarking and tenders.

Lead on the delivery of the month end financial position, encompassing trust reserves and the efficiency programme, monitoring actual and forecast performance against the financial plan. Lead on the management and development of next year’s budget, capturing all cost pressures and efficiency plans. Deliver internal and external reporting requirements ensuring reports are accurate, timely and relevant.

Lead and nurture the management accounts team to fulfil their roles and promote a culture of continuous and quality improvement, encouraging finance staff development and best use of resources and systems to deliver efficient and quality outputs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification.

For more information, or for an informal discussion, please contact Ruth Marsden ([email protected]).