South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust. Our 4,000 workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website. Job overview The role is responsible for the management and delivery of a cost effective, efficient, and responsive financial management / business partnering services (income and expenditure) to the Trust. The post holder will deputise for the Finance Business Partner, manage and lead the respective financial management / business partnering services and team for respective area that may include operational, support and corporate divisions and be responsible for HR/line management Advert Provide Business partnering / Financial Management and reporting for Income and Expenditure · Support Planning and leading on Budgeting setting for respective area o Overseeing budget setting o Developing the medium term financial plan · Support Forecasting and reporting: o Ensure accurate and timely monthly financial information is produced and made available for budget holders o Produce governance packs Support Costing and pricing (PLICS) · Financial modelling and appraising options · Supporting development and implementation of cost improvement programme and update tracker. · Supporting Internal / External Audit. Supporting Counter Fraud to manage / reduce / avoid risk · Supporting responding to FOI. Providing training to Budget Holders, team members and other stakeholders · Reviewing and improving financial processes and procedures, implementing automation, better utilisation of systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Essential Criteria: CCAB/CIMA Qualified Evidence of continuing professional development · Note: This vacancy is only open to employees of Sussex ICB, Surrey and Heartlands ICB, and Secamb. Applications from outside these organisations will not be considered. Working for our organisation Option to join NHS pension scheme A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service. Personal and professional development and training opportunities. Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes. Access to occupational health and counselling services. Award winning wellbeing hub Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals. Detailed job description and main responsibilities · Leading the day to day operational management of the team ensuring it provides the most effective financial stewardship and management services to the Trust. · Supporting organisational development and strategy · Responsible for ensuring adherence to Financial Governance and Control. · Leading on and ensuring adherence to IFRS/IAS/IFRIC/GAM and other regulatory guidance – carry out impact assessment and implementation of rules. · Ensure appropriate accounting, analysis and other codes are used for journals and that these have the correct debit and credit entries. · Ensuring that ledger journals are appropriately authorised and contain adequate audit trail. · Provide technical accounting and advice for relevant areas. Example: application of VAT, employer’s pay contribution, recognition of income and expenditure, etc. · Formulate options and make professional and technical judgments including the interpretation of legal and contractual matters across a wide range of technical accounting issues. · Act as finance lead and reference point in all finance and governance matters, including legislation (key stakeholders budget holders, internal/external auditors, senior management). · For relevant areas leading on the preparation and development (automation) of robust, accurate monthly / annual accounts, analytical review and consolidated statements and delivering these ahead of deadlines. Including associated notes and working papers for the journals, PFRs/TACs in accordance with IFRS and other accounting standards, FreM and Department of Health & Social Care’s (DHSC) annual Group Accounting Manual. · Supporting the co-ordination and delivery of financial planning and budget setting In line with set deadlines, leading on budget setting for relevant area within the agreed financial plans, and associated reporting, forecasting, including that for the cost improvement programs (efficiencies, CIP) to support the Trust’s decision-making process and effective financial management. · Supporting the management and the appropriate utilisation of the Financial Ledger / Systems (Oracle, Excel and other systems) and user access. · Support developing relevant financial policies, processes, procedure and service developments and ensuring these are created / developed / updated by set deadlines · Representing the team at budget holder and other meetings for transitional changes and financial performance. · Benchmark services against other organisations and identify areas for improvement, advise and work closely service leads to implement changes · Supporting and leading on relevant projects such as financial management services improvement, and / or transitions. · Support the development of Business Cases and service development (ie.: workforce planning) and improvement. · Contribute to achieve the goals and corporate objectives set out in business cases ensuring improvements and benefits are achieved and delivered. · Completing pricing, costing, sensitivity/SWOT analysis and other techniques within set deadlines. Example to help deliver services within budget. · Support managing complex, high value NHS/Non-NHS Commissioned contracts by providing detailed financial analysis, and evaluation, checking that payment has been made in line with these. · Support Contracts management – support managing income contracts, developing and selling services, monitoring and managing supplier performance. · Supporting external and internal audit exercise for the Trust and Charitable Account that will require coordination of the non-financial element and attending meetings. · Support responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests which require financial information and input within set deadlines. · Support responding to Counter Fraud initiatives and management of risk within set deadlines · Supporting the Agreement of Balances (AOB) exercise and completing tasks for relevant areas within set deadlines · Support Strategy & Transformations team to facilitate and lead the dialogue on collaboration and to challenge, influence and shape collaborative agendas, implementing structural and operational collaborative initiatives that benefit the Trust. · Build and maintain the reputation of the service as a highly professional and enabling business support service and increase satisfaction among key stakeholders and suppliers. Manage a constant stream of conflicting priorities utilising exceptional organisation or communication skills, ensuring that complex technical information can be explained in non-technical / business terms · Take ownership of escalated issues, handling until acceptable resolution is achieved and escalating when necessary. · Overall responsibility for ensuring adherence to Trust HR policies and that appropriate action has been taken when necessary. · · Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated. Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination. Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff. In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable. Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants. As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy. The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups. The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable. We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role. When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process. Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old. The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this. Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [email protected] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this. When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history. Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly. Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible. Follow our recruitment on Twitter @SECAmbRecruit and check out our Facebook page - SECAmb NHS Recruitment. You can also find us on Linkedin under South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. We understand that AI tools can be useful for generating ideas or structuring your application. However, any content submitted must reflect your own experiences, skills, and understanding. Applications that are generated wholly or in large part by AI, without personalisation or accuracy, may be excluded from consideration. We value honesty, authenticity, and integrity in the recruitment process and expect all applicants to uphold these principles. If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zon e .