Head of Financial Reporting, Planning and Analytics - Northampton, United Kingdom - Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

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Northampton, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

The Head of Financial Reporting, Planning and Analytics is a member of the Finance and Procurement leadership team for the Groupwide service, acting as the primary finance lead on planning, non-statutory reporting and insight into operational financial performance.

Responsibilities include annual and multi-year financial planning, regulatory and internal management reporting, analytics, corporate coordination and oversight of in-year forecasting.

The role will require expert analytical, planning, judgement and presentation skills, as well as the ability to make and influence key decisions at a senior level.

The role will provide oversight and direction to ensure consistency to financial planning, reporting and analysis across the Group.

This is a new role, introduced to ensure coordination and collaboration across teams based at Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals, as part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance.

We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

To lead on the coordination of production of all plans and financial returns as required by the Trust's regulators and oversight bodies.
To oversee all nonstatutory financial reporting, including the coordination of reporting for internal management (e.g. Group Executive Management and Trust Boards) and external (e.g. NHSE/I and ICS) purposes.
Act as the Group's primary corporate finance lead on the coordination and reporting of operational financial performance, providing strategic oversight across the Group.
Lead on the development, modelling of annual planning for the Group, including each Trust's capital and revenue financial plans. Including implementation of service specific policy or service development changes. As well as to work with Head of System Finance, providing inputs into multiyear financial plans.
Lead on the development, modelling and maintenance of annual strategic planning for each Trust's capital and revenue financial plans, for annual and multiyear time horizons. This covers both internal (Group and each Trust's standalone) and external (e.g. system) plans. Including implementation of service specific policy or service development changes.
Develop and oversee the population and maintenance of the Group and individual Trust's long term financial model, providing commentaries, briefings and governance assurances as required to both internal/external stakeholders and inspectors/regulators.
Work with Hospital Directors of Operational Finance to ensure there is appropriate planning, structure and process in place to support and deliver annual planning and budgeting. Specific responsibilities include overseeing the development of necessary templates and coordination of inputs from relevant areas of finance (e.g. revenue, cash, capital and balance sheet etc).
Responsible for the management of each Trust's reserve and contingency budgets, agreeing their release with the Director of Group Financial Performance, ensuring transparency in their reporting.
Work with Hospital Directors of Operational Finance on the implementation of improvements to financial reporting systems, including oversight on development of performance dashboards, key performance indicators and any other key management information.
Work with Hospital Directors of Operational Finance to ensure all relevant and correct financial information is reported by divisions, including accruals, prepayments, workforce and clinical income.
Work with the Head of Group Operational Finance, and wider Finance and Procurement colleagues, as required, to make enhancements to financial systems to improve assurance about internal control and decisionmaking.
Work with Hospital Directors of Operational Finance to ensure consistency of approach to financial management across the Group, including leading on appropriate reporting infrastructure.
Provide corporate oversight, structure and leadership, includ