Job overview
We are recruiting for a Deputy Head of Reporting who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual who would like to develop their financial management and leadership skills within the Finance Department.
As Deputy Head of Reporting within the dedicated and dynamic management Accounts team, your role will be pivotal in ensuring that the Trust produces accurate and timely financial reports. A key focus of the role will be to ensure that the department continually assesses opportunities to automate and improve its month end processes.
The successful candidate will have significant experience of management accounting and financial reporting and should be able to demonstrate a track record of successfully implementing improvements to core financial processes. They will undertake a significant role in the Department’s ‘Faster Reporting’ project which aims to improve the quality of financial reporting, as well as to report earlier.
The candidate will also have a key responsibility in ensuring that there is strong financial governance and reporting processes for all approved CIP schemes.
You will be an an experienced Finance professional who is keen to support the finance department and our key operational and clinical stakeholders.
This role will be Hybrid working to include office attendance 2 to 3 days a week.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Head of Reporting will provide, in conjunction with the Head of Reporting, a full and comprehensive service to ensure the accurate and timely reporting of the monthly financial position.
To develop, improve, automate and standardise month end processes to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the reporting section.
To maintain the CIP tracker and ensure that this is regularly reconciled with the PMO CIP tracker and that CIP schemes are appropriately removed from budgets.
To be responsible for the day-to-day line management, and development, of the management accounts apprentices.
Provide highly complex financial advice and information to one or more areas through the investigation, analysis, manipulation and presentation of data from integrated finance and information systems.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
* Completed AAT Technician Stage or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* Actively studying for a CCAB qualification or have equivalent experience.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant experience in all aspects of financial reporting, planning and control.
* Significant experience of working to tight reporting deadlines.
* Experience of supervising junior staff
Desirable criteria
* NHS financial experience
Skills
Essential criteria
* Experienced user of computer applications with a good working knowledge of Excel, Word, email and large general ledger systems.
* Ability to apply knowledge to workload and demonstrate analytical skills.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of using reporting packages, i.e Qlikview qualification.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Significant experience of management accounting issues to include budgetary control and costing techniques.
* An understanding of NHS Finance
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.