Business Partner

The main purpose of the business partner is to work with the Senior Operational Teams within their dedicated division, ensuring they get the business and financial support they need to run their division. In addition to this, they will lead a team of Finance Managers and Management Accountants, responsible for the provision of an expert financial management service to a portfolio of clinical units and/or corporate departments.

Client Details

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is a national centre of excellence in the provision of specialist children's health care, currently delivering the widest range of specialist care of any children's hospital in the UK. It is the only specialist Biomedical Research Centre for paediatrics, the largest centre in the UK for children and young people with heart or brain problems, and the largest centre in Europe for children and young people with cancer. It works in partnership with the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), part of University College London, and together they form the largest paediatric research and teaching centre in the UK.

The hospital receives over 255,000 patient visits (inpatient admissions or outpatient appointments) a year, and carries our approximately 18,800 operations each year and has approximately 50 paediatric specialities, the widest range of any hospital in the UK.

Description

• To lead and manage a team of Finance staff in the production of high quality financial management information, income and expenditure, for a range of clinical and corporate units.

• To manage and develop Finance staff within the team, providing leadership as well as the setting of appropriate objectives.

• To provide a high quality financial management reporting service with a focus on identifying trends, risks and opportunities, communicating these to senior finance staff, clinical unit / corporate department management teams and to the executive team.

• To attend key meetings to lead discussions on the financial performance of clinical units and corporate departments.

• To develop robust forecasting systems and models, in association with financial planning, clinical services, information services and service level agreement teams.

• To support their Finance team and the wider department in the development of clinical unit and corporate department CIP schemes. To review CIP plans for units within their portfolio, challenging assumptions and assessing risk to ensure scheme information is robust, accurate and deliverable.

• To support their Finance team and the wider department in the modelling of activity, income and expenditure in relation to complex business case developments and funding proposals, both internal and external to the Trust.

• To lead the overall annual business planning and budget setting process for clinical units and corporate departments within the portfolio and to support the Finance staff in delivering required tasks for their designated areas.

• To lead the overall use of service line reporting and patient level cost information within the portfolio of units. To support Finance staff and clinical unit managers and clinicians in understanding the detail behind this information, in identifying opportunities and in using this information to influence decision making.

• To support the Senior Finance Manager with the production and development of trust wide reporting and papers for divisional and trust meetings. Including Board meetings, Performance reviews, and specialty meetings.

• To work with the clinical units and corporate departments to benchmark their services from financial and non-financial perspectives and to develop reporting mechanisms to monitor and assess relative performance.

• To lead on assigned on finance and trust wide corporate projects

• To work with other finance departments and corporate services to identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement within financial processes and to lead on the implementation of required changes.

• To deputise for the Head of Financial Management as appropriate

Profile

The successful Business Partner must be fully qualified in either ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CCAB and must obtain the following skills:

• Significant financial management experience at a senior level
• Significant financial management experience (preferably within the NHS)
• Staff management experience
• Effective team leadership
• Presentation of highly complex financial and non-financial information
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Presentation skills
• Financial analysis and forecasting

Job Offer

GOSH offer many development opportunities, staff benefits and a genuinely supportive working environment. With new leadership within the finance department, they are committed to creating a highly skilled team that work collaboratively together. The Business Partner has the opportunity to be the main finance lead for their clinical division and to truly influence senior operational leads who are highly specialist clinicians within the Medical and Nursing sector.

The role is based full time in Central London, where the finance department has recently relocated to new offices. Giving the business partner the opportunity to spend time with both the finance team, but as importantly the clinical and operational leads.