Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job description for more details regarding this post

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

Contribute to the preparation of monthly and annual financial reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness.

Ensure compliance with IFRS, NHS Group Accounting Manual (GAM), HM Treasury guidance, and local Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs).

Oversee balance sheet governance, including reconciliation, analysis and validation of all control accounts.

Support the production of yearend accounts, supporting external and internal audit processes.

Oversee the budget management of the ICBs running costs.

Ensure strong financial governance and internal controls are embedded and operating effectively.

Identify, assess and mitigate financial risks, escalating issues appropriately.

Support compliance with Better Payment Practice, VAT rules and statutory financial requirements.

Contribute to development and review of financial policies and procedures.

Lead the monitoring, management and forecasting of cash requirements, ensuring the organisation maintains adequate liquidity at all times.

Ensure compliance with NHS England cash drawdown and payment arrangements, including adherence to agreed limits and timelines.

Maintain and improve use of financial systems (e.g. ISFE2).

Lead or support process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy and value for money.

Contribute to transformation projects such as system upgrades or service integration.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters' level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Qualified CCAB Accountant.
• Member of relevant professional bodies, if applicable.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Experience of monthly financial reporting including annual financial accounts for NHS organisations.
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through a post graduate qualification or equivalent experience or training.
• An understanding of the relationship between NHS organisations and wider system, regional and national organisations.
• Ability to oversee and be responsible for a budget for a department and/or service.
• Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required, to aid decision making.
• Skilled communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
• Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence where there may be barriers to understanding.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues, facts and situations where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources and develop a range of options in response.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing risks and reporting.
• Experience of developing briefing papers and correspondence at SLT or chief officer level.
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
• Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
• Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve improved performance (advising on policy implementation, where applicable).
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and managing successful projects.
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

Address

Exeter / Bodmin / Truro

Bodmin

PL31 2FR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cios.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job description for more details regarding this post

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

Advise on the treatment of complex financial arrangements and implications of any taxes(e.g. VAT, PAYE). Provide advice and alternative solutions to ensure the ICB optimises anytax impact.

Responsible for ensuring the delivery of the ICBs Statutory Annual Accounts, meeting all Audit requirements and Accounting Standards and ensuring that they provide a true and fair view.

Prepare monthly (and adhoc) financial monitoring returns are submitted to NHSE in line with notified deadlines.

Co-ordinate the inclusion of provider data into the system financial returns and summarise system financial position.

Ensure that the ICBs financial governance policies are kept up to date and relevant making recommendations where appropriate. Interpret and take account of national guidance where relevant.

Manage the financial reporting team including matters of staff wellbeing.

Ensure standing operating procedures are kept up to date and are reviewed at least annually.

Be prime interface with internal and external audit ensuring that auditor are able to accessthe records that they need in order to deliver their fieldwork; draft recommendations in response to matters arising from audits.

Overall lead for CIP reporting and design and delivery lead for relevant budget area.

Working where necessary across other teams to co-ordinate the planning, delivery, measurement and reporting of CIP for the ICB.

Management of the ICB reported risk position working with other teams where necessary.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters' level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Qualified CCAB accountant.
• Member of relevant professional bodies, if applicable.

Knolwedge and skills

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through a post graduate qualification or equivalent experience or training.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this.
• Ability to support the budget setting for a number of teams/services across a directorate.
• A strong understanding of the relationship between NHS organisations and wider system, regional and national organisations.
• Good communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence and negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Ability to produce and present concise yet insightful communications on highly complex matters for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• Significant experience of co-ordinating projects in highly complex and challenging environments.
• Experience of managing risks and reporting.
• Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management.
• Experience of developing briefing papers and correspondence at SLT or chief officer level.
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
• Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve improved performance (advising on policy implementation, where applicable).
• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
• Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and managing successful projects.
• Experience of managing often complex situations and effectively motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy and leading implementation.
• Adept at dealing with high uncertainty and frequent change, showing exceptional adaptability and flexibility.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

Address

Exeter / Bodmin / Truro

Bodmin

PL31 2FR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cios.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)