Finance Manager

About the Role

What you'll be doing:

Are you an ambitious finance professional looking to take the next step in your finance career in a highly commercial and business-facing role? Our Medirest business is on the lookout for an operationally-minded Finance Manager to join us supporting at Sherwood Hospitals.

Medirest is the specialist healthcare operating company of Compass Group UK & Ireland, providing a full range of hotel services, including staff, patient and visitor catering, domestics, portering, security, and reception, at over 130 NHS Trusts and private hospitals.

More about the role:

PURPOSE: Commercial Support

• Business Partner key stakeholders (financial and non-financial) ensuring strong commercial and operational decision-making, managing financial risks and opportunities
• Attend and actively contribute to designated site and client meetings, with a real focus on net growth.
• Delivering proactive ad-hoc financial analysis with summarised findings to support business decision making.
• Understand and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from volumetric and other contract mechanisms – and ongoing business performance
• Understand, highlight, and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from balance sheet maintenance
• Manage Working Capital targets within the contract.

PERFORMANCE

• Deliver analysis of key business reporting such as month end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, working capital analysis and other ad-hoc analysis to be discussed at monthly review.
• Monthly balance sheet review for area of responsibility, escalating key risks/ opportunities to senior stakeholders.
• Promote working capital improvements through timely, accurate contract billing and active management of debt ledgers
• Support with the budgeting and forecasting process by consolidating the budget, understanding variances and preparing the budget presentation for senior stakeholders
• Monitoring initiative delivery plan, challenging operational teams where there is a risk to achievement and highlighting to senior stakeholders
• Preparation & analysis of documentation for client tenders, negotiations and capital expenditure appraisals
• Support operational teams with understanding actions required on mobilisation and ensure that these are executed in line with timetable
• You will ensure health and safety of all colleagues within the business and report any incidents via the approved company processes

PEOPLE: Relationship Management

• Working effectively as part of a team
• Building relationships with key stakeholders
• Direct management of a team within the Healthcare finance team.
• Supervision and development of junior team members, supporting their career progression while focusing on client service, ensure adequate business partnering and commercial knowledge

What we’ll give:

Finance Manager - Sherwood Hospitals

up to £55.000 per annum based on experience

40 hours per week

Hybrid role with 2-3 days at our Parklands office in Rubery with travel into the contract for remainder or as required by business

Who you are:

Our ideal Finance Manager:

Essential:

• Qualified/Part Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or QBE with varied experience in accounting roles
• Experience of business partnering senior stakeholders with the ability to challenge, influence and persuade at all levels
• High numeric and analytical skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable developing and working with complex spreadsheets
• Demonstrable commercial finance experience of improving business results and adding value
• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically
• Ability to analyse, evaluate and present information in a clear and concise way
• Team management experience

Desirable:

• Experience of operating within a multi-site, multi-contract organization
• Good working knowledge of SAP & Cognos

Performance Standards

• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically - to both finance and non-finance people
• Pro-active and energetic approach
• Ability to analyse and evaluate information concisely
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence internal and external parties
• Self-motivated with an ability to effectively plan and organise own work
• Ability to take on a broad spectrum of work under pressure and to deliver in agreed timescales

Leadership behaviours

• Communication – ability to manage, develop and lead peers
• Can Do – Finds new / quicker ways of meeting goals, shows conviction in own judgement and decisions, responds quickly under pressure and overcomes hurdles to achieve targets
• Share Success – Provides task related feedback to do the job effectively and provides excellent service. Delegates tasks to develop others
• Passion for Quality – Sets demanding performance expectations, sets priorities to maximise benefits, tracks the commercial implications of a situation in a step by step way
• Win through Teamwork – Pursues friendly relationships with colleagues and clients, makes contact with colleagues across the organisation and shares own knowledge and insight and displays a high level of energy and commitment to the role and organisation
• Embrace Diversity – Listens to others and values their contributions, receptive to new and builds on ideas and acts in ethical and socially responsible manner

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