To take responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monthly monitoring of performance. This will include ensuring the financial position and reports present an accurate and robust cleansed data on monthly basis. You will collaborate with the managers to interpret financial information and variances from plan and offer guidance & advice so that potential financial problems can be identified early enough for effective corrective action to be taken. To provide the Finance Business partner with the information necessary to support their production of the monthly directorate reports and collate details of appropriate relevant financial risks within the directorate raised through discussions with managers. This will include explanation of significant variance movements for inclusion in the directorates performance report. To work with the Income & Contracts team, ensuring the directorate understand all aspects of finance including income and expenditure reporting, activity currencies, EBITDA and profitability. To work on the directorates Quality & Efficiency Programme (QEP) supporting the Finance Business Partner and management team to identifying and monitoring QEP schemes. To prepare the month end financial positions for directorates in readiness for Finance Business Partner review, considering all aspects of performance including workforce and activity. To take responsibility for FM month end close-down and collating the performance reporting pack for the directorates. To support the collation of directorates forecast positions on monthly basis, working closely with the budget holders ensuring all key financial issues are considered. To support the directorates annual budget setting exercise preparing appropriate key performance indicators, identifying activity, workforce and expenditure trends, cost pressures and QEPs, and working with budget managers on their plans. To produce, understand and monitor agreed Key Performance Indicators using finance, activity, and workforce information. To prepare and review all recharges, both to and by the directorate with partner organisations (e.g. Universities, NHS Trust, CCGs) and the commercial sector. Support the Finance Business partner to developing the use of Service Line Reporting to engage clinicians and other directorate staff and developing efficient and high quality clinical services. This will involve taking the supporting role in ensuring the principles of Service Line Management are embedded within the directorates and developing & maintaining strategies and operational processes which support effective financial governance and management. To assist the Finance Business Partner in collaborating with managers to make improvements to directorates performance. To provide cover for the other Finance & Performance managers in their absence, providing financial information and support as and when required. Provide information and support to the directorates internal performance management regime. To carry out all of the above duties in line with standing financial instructions and standing orders of the Trust, and in accordance with local procedures and guidelines as notified from time to time. Any instances where the standing financial instructions are not being adhered to should be notified to the Head of Financial Management as soon as possible. To support directorates in production of ad hoc and business cases costings, ensuring a workup of financial analysis of all options.