Head of Financial Management – All Age Continuing Care & Mental Health

This senior post heads financial management for All Age Continuing Healthcare and Mental Health at South West London Integrated Care Board, and manages the Financial Management team. The work centres on strengthening links between the contracts and continuing care teams, managing financial performance and efficiency, and sound financial planning. It also covers relationship accountancy for the Croydon, Kingston and Richmond Place, a role that may change as place-based working develops. Candidates need master’s-level education or equivalent senior specialist experience.

What the job involves

• Provide professional and complex financial and commercial information to ICB managers
• With the Deputy Director of Finance, be accountable for the ICB management accounting service, including the monthly reporting cycle, accurate ledger entries and timely reports
• Manage production of multi-layer forecasts of ICB financial performance, incorporating pressures and actions across the ICB
• Coordinate analysis of the consequences and risks of local service changes and national financial and policy developments
• Advise and support financial management staff on budgets, ensuring alignment with agreed plans and service standards
• Present highly complex and sensitive financial information to large, varied audiences
• Manage the Financial Management team, including business partnering to all ICB departments
• Lead the team’s recruitment, training, appraisal, HR policy implementation and performance or disciplinary issues
• Build relationships between the contracts team and the AACHC team, engaging clinical and non-clinical teams on financial performance, efficiency and planning
• Act as relationship accountant for Croydon, Kingston & Richmond Place

What’s required

Qualifications

• Extensive specialist knowledge gained through a postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience or training, plus further specialist knowledge to master’s level equivalent
• Educated to master’s level or equivalent senior-level experience in a specialist area

Experience

• Significant experience of operating successfully in a politically sensitive environment
• Previously responsible for a budget, including budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing individual performance

Skills & knowledge

• Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, and negotiating with senior stakeholders
• Presenting complex and sensitive information to large, influential groups
• Making autonomous decisions on difficult issues with several possible courses of action
• Anticipating and resolving problems before they arise
• Delivering results through others without direct line management authority
• Working as part of a team and flexibly supporting other departments

Other

• Commitment to NHS and organisational values and behaviours
• Commitment to and role modelling of equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion
• Strong compassionate and inclusive leadership

What’s offered

• Outer HCAS included in the stated salary

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