Senior Finance Business Partner (1x Corporate)

at  Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will prepare appropriate financial reports to set timelines with written analysis / commentaries for the various departmental senior managers enabling them to manage their areas of the business, analysing reasons for under / over performance and ensuring that the likely full year outcome is well explained. The post holder will contribute towards the preparation of the monthly Management Reports and Board briefings ensuring that information is prepared in a timely manner, is accurate and is accompanied by incisive commentary explaining major variances to budgets / forecasts. The post holder will take full responsibility for preparing and delivering monthly finance reports for their specific divisions/directorates. The post holder will manage the team workload such that all deadlines are met, whilst completing work to a high standard, allowing for appropriate review and amendment by senior management before documents are disseminated outside the finance department.
The post holder will work with the clinical division/directorate to ensure that annual budgets are prepared in the correct form and according to timelines agreed with the Head of Management Accounts, ensuring that they meet the Trusts financial objectives. The post holder will provide financial advice in respect of the budgets to ensure that the budgets are stretching but achievable. The post holder will ensure that regular forecasts are prepared with the divisions/directorates in the correct form and according to timelines agreed with the Head of Management Accounts, ensuring that any major variances to budget are fully understood and explained. The post holder will ensure that staff within the divisions/directorates have received appropriate training in the understanding and interpretation of financial reports such that they are capable of reviewing them and taking the appropriate action of their own initiative.
The post holder will become an integral part of the divisional/directorate management team

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