Finance Manager - Financial Control & CapitalNHS

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is looking for an ambitious and experienced finance professional to join its Finance Directorate as Finance Manager Financial Control & Capital. You will be part of a supportive and experienced team, providing expert leadership across capital accounting, financial reporting, treasury management and financial governance, whilst acting as operational deputy to the Financial Controller.

Working closely with senior leaders across the Trust, you will influence strategic investment decisions, support delivery of the Trust's Capital Plan and help ensure resources are used effectively to improve services for patients and service users. As a key member of the Financial Accounts team, you will also provide resilience and support across the finance function.

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant looking for a varied, rewarding role with significant responsibility, leadership opportunities and the chance to make a real organisational impact. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can help drive continuous improvement and support high-quality healthcare services, we'd love to hear from you.

Contact Details:Jackie Moore, [email protected], 07775 005495

Main duties of the job

Acting as operational deputy to the Financial Controller, the post holder will provide technical leadership across capital accounting, capital VAT, financial reporting and financial governance. The role is responsible for leading the Trust's Capital Plan and the delivery of the capital resource limit, supporting the statutory accounts and NHS financial returns, ensuring compliance with IFRS and NHS accounting requirements, and providing expert financial advice to senior stakeholders. The post holder will also lead and develop members of the Financial Accounts team, support the delivery of strategic capital investment programmes and contribute to the continuous improvement of financial systems, controls and processes across the Trust.

Job description

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About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.