We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job Overview
The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive financial management, costing and advisory service, supporting the Head of Financial Management, Deputy Director of Finance and Budget Managers within the Trust, in accordance with agreed timescales and professional standards.
Finance Managers will provide internal and external stakeholders with financial management information in relation to the Trust's monthly financial reporting requirements to the Board, NHSE and the Integrated Care Board (ICB); whilst assisting with the preparation and completion of Annual Accounts & PLICS returns ensuring accurate and timely completion in line with national timescales.
Within a framework established by the Head of Financial Management, Finance Managers will provide financial support in the preparation of business cases, assisting with business decisions whilst maintaining financial control.
The post holder will report to a designated Senior Financial Manager and will be expected to uphold and promote the Finance Department's policies and principles throughout the course of their work. It is expected that the post holder will promote a holistic view of operational, clinical and financial issues to facilitate balanced, informed decision making, to support the development of the Trust.
The postholder will have some degree of autonomy to interpret policies, guidance and accounting standards and to apply specialist technical accounting knowledge to perform the role.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will provide a proactive management accounting service to a designated division, supporting budget holders in the effective management of financial resources. This includes producing timely and accurate monthly budget reports, analysing financial data, and investigating and explaining variances to ensure clear understanding of financial performance.
* Working closely with budget holders, the post holder will provide financial advice and support, maintaining regular contact to highlight risks and opportunities, and assisting in the development of actions to ensure expenditure remains within agreed limits.
* The role includes supporting the setting and monitoring of income and expenditure budgets, contributing to the annual budget-setting process, and making adjustments where required to reflect changes in activity.
* The post holder will prepare regular financial forecasts to support planning and control, and assist in identifying and monitoring efficiency savings and cost improvement initiatives.
* They will respond to routine and ad hoc financial queries, provide analysis to support decision-making, and contribute to the financial aspects of business cases.
* The post holder will attend meetings with managers to present financial information and support discussions on performance.
* They will also support audit requirements as and where necessary.
Working for our organisation
Our Values
* Respect: Respect for our patients and each other.
* Integrity: Acting with integrity by doing the right thing for the right reasons.
* Contribution: Respecting and valuing everyone's contribution, and encouraging innovation.
* Teamwork: Working together, supporting each other, and collaborating with other organisations.
* Competence: Continually developing and improving our competence.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Lead on providing timely and accurate budget reports to the Head of Financial Management and designated Budget Managers within the Trust complete with explanations of the major variances.
* Responsible for the accurate setting of income and expenditure budgets for designated Departments/Directorates of the Trust and to monitor those budgets over the course of the year.
* Ensure financial plans are accurate and feasible whilst guiding management action where necessary to ensure delivery of financial balance and achievement of cost improvements/efficiency savings within the designated Departments/Directorates.
* Reviews cost improvement plans and advise on opportunities for further cost improvements, efficiency gains or income generation.
* Production of financial forecasts and dealing with ad hoc requests from the senior Finance team/budget managers.
* Identify the key variances within the directorates and provide explanations of significant movements in the financial position for review by the Senior Finance Manager.
* Holding budget managers to account for financial performance and support in developing mitigations.
* Proactively challenge decisions/requests made by the directorates to ensure all outcomes reflect value for money and remain within the financial constraints in place across the organisation.
* Contributes to the production of the Trust's PLICS submission that enables a national comparison of service costs across the NHS, whilst contributing towards the development of Service Line Reporting across the Trust.
* Supports the Head of Financial Management in the provision of financial support and advice to all budget managers including the training of non-finance staff on budgetary control and other finance issues in a way that is easily understood.
* Provide, support and assistance in the development and review of business cases for service change, ensuring that financial modelling is robust.
* To provide support to both Internal and External Auditors by giving detailed information to enable them to fulfill their auditing duties.
* Ensure designated Departments/Directorates comply with Trust's Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions and Financial Procedures and Protocols, statutory and best practice requirements.
* Manage own workload and time, organising and prioritising work in order of urgency and relevance.
* To attend key meetings to lead discussions on the financial performance of the directorates, including deputising for Senior Finance Manager when required.
* Take a proactive role in presenting financial information.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Part Qualified CCAB/CIMA
* Minimum of 2 year NHS finance experience
* Well grounded understanding and financial knowledge
* Strong IT and reporting skills
Desirable criteria
* Excellent communication skills
* Understanding of PLICS and SLR
* Experience In Budgetary Control & Financial Modelling
The East Midlands has a lot to offer:
* Excellent Location
* Making a Difference
* Action Packed Roles
* Support and Belonging
* Accessibility
If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, please contact the recruiting manager.
If you haven't heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.
Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.
We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values - respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do - how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it's our people who make EMAS what it is.
Our Vision - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.
Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.
Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must declared). If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months' salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.
Documents to download
* EMAS Finance Manager B6 Job Description (PDF, 104.7 KB)
* EMAS Finance Manager B6 Person Specification (PDF, 88.4 KB)
* Benefits of joining EMAS NHS Trust (PDF, 326.3 KB)
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