Assistant Finance Manager - Financial Management Team

at  Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated finance professional to join our Finance team. We are looking for a dedicated and innovative person who can demonstrate the drive and commitment needed to make a difference to support the ongoing delivery of excellent services for our service users.
This is an exciting time to join our team; the department has just undergone a comprehensive review and restructure to ensure it is fit for purpose to provide high-quality, forward-thinking support to the organisation as it continues to rise to its financial challenges.
We are looking for a candidate who has a pro-active and positive approach, an ability to develop good relationships with clinical colleagues and is adept at producing, analysing, and developing high quality financial information.
This is a challenging and rewarding role and will give successful applicants a broad range of professional development and experience of all aspects of financial support in busy and complex clinical care groups. This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to take the next step in developing their career within NHS Finance.
This role is responsible for the provision of a financial support to the Adult, Children and Community Care Group. This will involve providing clear and comprehensive financial support to stakeholders. Experience of managing challenging financial issues and supporting the delivering successful service redesign projects is essential.
You will be responsible for delivering high quality and timely financial management support to budget holders
Key duties will include quality assuring all financial ledger inputs and outputs, providing pro-active variance analysis, support and advice to budget holders; to ensure that services are aware of, and can develop effective action plans in response to, emerging budget issues. This role will contribute towards delivery of training to finance and non-finance staff and will be responsible for the accuracy of key inputs provided for annual budget setting, e.g. the sign off of staffing details for budget setting; prior to review by the Finance Manager.
You will be involved in developing financial forecasts and will contribute to monthly financial reports that provide the basis corporate and external financial reports and meetings. The post holder will be required to co-ordinate work to deliver routine operational procedures and to demonstrate initiative
A critical part of your duties will be responding to the need to continuously modernise the financial management function. This will involve performing detailed reviews of financial procedures, systems, ledger coding and reporting, and increased automation and use of IT to allow increased focus on service transformation. Whilst the Finance Manager will have overall team responsibility to co-ordinated this work, you will play a key supporting role in detailed reviews and planning to modernise operating procedures.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS UNDERPINNED BY OUR CORE VALUES: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Right to Work in the UK
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trust’s eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.
As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly

Please refer the Job description for details