Deputy Directorate of Finance - Productivity & Efficiency

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Main duties continued:

• Support the delivery of regional financial targets ensuring that systems and organisations deliver value for money, financially sustainable and efficient plans, supported by effective cost improvement programmes utilising regional benchmarking, learning and best practice.
• Ensure robust processes are in place to monitor financial performance to maintain a clear and up-to-date view of the financial position. 
• Provide robust forecasts, risk predictions and mitigations. 
• Ensure that systems, processes and information flows provide effective early warnings of potential failures in service quality, financial management, partnerships and performance. Take a risk based approach, in line with national frameworks to intervene, anticipate and avoid such failures.
• Play a key role with regional colleagues and work with them to tackle performance risks and issues, ensuring that support to improve is provided early. 
• Provide expert advice to inform formal regulatory interactions and/or interventions where necessary. Lead financial intervention processes in the event of material concerns about financial performance and financial risk within national frameworks. 
• Support national teams on planning, reviewing and agreeing cash requirements with systems and organisations within national policy. 
• Oversee and assure the financial planning and redesign of services within the region, particularly large scale and complex service reconfigurations, ensuring business cases are subject to rigorous financial appraisal, are financially viable and provide value for money. 
• Represent NHS England and its interests at national/public meetings/events as required, acting independently, decisively and effectively in sensitive and political situations. At times this involves delivering difficult messages and contentious information to high level audiences potentially in a difficult environment. 
• Promote the highest standards of finance professionalism within the region including the development and implementation of new initiatives.
• Live the NHS values, lead with compassion and promote and foster these values in the wider team. Support the priorities of the Finance
• Directorate adopting a flexible approach to ensure all priorities can be delivered from within available resources.

These responsibilities require a qualified finance professional with a minimum of 8 years of post-qualification experience.  The role is part of the East of England region Senior Finance Team and therefore the role holder will be required to engage with and drive wider regional finance initiatives and support staff development.  The role holder should also have excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills, be comfortable dealing with uncertainty and the have the ability to handle conflict in a positive and professional manner.

You must meet this criteria to apply for this role: 

• CCAB Qualified Accountant with minimum 8 years post qualification experience
• Proven senior leadership skills with strong evidence to demonstrate gravitas, influencing and strategic thinking at a senior level 
• Evidence of leading and delivering key business processes across multiple systems/organisation/matrix teams to ensure delivery of key regional targets that are critical to support the overall financial position of the region
• Experience of robust stakeholder management to ensure acceptance of regional proposals across our systems including examples where differing views have been represented
• Evidence of line management experience to ensure a team perform at a high level to meet the exacting challenges required.

“We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability or learning difference, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. 

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

The definition of a disability is a condition that lasts long than 12 months and has a significant impact on day to day living, so this could include; neurodiversity, long term conditions, mental health, menopause and sensory impairments, however, this is not an exhaustive list.

We will honour the transfer of workplace passports from previous employers if the application is successful. 

We welcome informal enquiries, please contact [email protected] to discuss any questions you may have about the role or to hear more about our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.”