Senior Finance Manager

SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER

Working in partnership with a leading and reputable healthcare provider based in Bristol who are looking for a 'hands on' and pro active' Senior Finance Manager

The job holder will have specific finance responsibility for the area treatment centres in the Bristol area. The role will involve developing good working relationships with the operations team across the relevant operating units and supporting the Hospital Director.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Provide finance leadership to operating units, driving enhanced business performance and decision making, supported by the proactive utilisation of financial information and business analysis, and the successful implementation of new projects.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Key member of the units' Senior Management Team, providing financial leadership to enable robust strategic decision making.
• Lead, develop and coach direct reports in accordance with Leadership expectations
• Supported by a central management accounting team in Reading, deliver accurate and insightful month end management accounts, variance analysis and commentary - both financial and non-financial.
• Manage forecasting and annual budgeting process for operating units, including extensive discussions with operational staff and co-ordination with central finance team
• Ownership of management information, deep understanding of activities and drivers
• Ongoing identification & communication of risks & opportunities through general interactions with operations, ad-hoc scenario analyses of commercial opportunities, etc
• Provision of financial billing data to the receivables team and resolution of any issues that arise in the billing process
• Ensuring management, implementation and compliance with financial control policies and processes across the units
• Understanding of key commercial terms within core contracts and an active participant in external stakeholder meetings
• Monitoring of performance against contracted targets.
• Work with and lead operations and bid development with looking at and financially appraising new business opportunities, including preparing necessary sign-off models/briefing papers and board approval submissions.
• Provide day to day finance support to the operational management and teams

Candidate

• Qualified accountant - PQE
• Excellent analytical and financial modelling skills
• Demonstrable evidence of predictive and forecast modelling, planning and assisting with strategy
• Strong academic qualifications

• Ability to work in a cross functional/matrix organisation
• Finance business partnering
• Line Management experience
• Proven track record of implementing change programmes

• High competence in relation to usual Microsoft applications e.g. Excel, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint
• 'Technically' competent and highly skilled in the use of MS Excel
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation complex messages clearly
• Ability to influence key stakeholders

• A commitment to providing high quality service
• Wants contact with the business and want to make a genuine business impact.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet targets and deadlines
• Thorough and attentive to detail
• Able to use own initiative

Parkside Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.Parkside Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.