An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced finance professional to join our busy and dynamic financial management team. The post will support the chief finance manager in providing a professional high quality financial management accounting service to several specialties. This involves coordinating the operational financial management section providing financial and business planning advice as well as investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.
Candidates must be CCAB qualified accountants and have substantial relevant experience working in a financial management environment.
You will have excellent interpersonal, communication, presentations, analytical and people management skills and have experience of dealing with difficult situations and the ability to handle conflicting interests in a positive and professional manner.
Responsible for the management of a Financial Management section in providing a professional, high quality financial management accounting service.
Plays a leading role in both Business Unit and Trustwide teams in determining and monitoring strategic direction and operational processes.
Responsible for investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.
Provides financial and business planning advice and corporate reports to ensure financial controls are maintained in line with Corporate Governance requirements.
Ensures statutory accounts & returns are accurate and meet agreed timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these where necessary.
Contributes to the medium term financial strategy of the Trust and to the objectives of the Business Units.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
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Responsible for the management of a complex financial management section within the acute sector of the NHS.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.