Assistant Director of FinanceinHuntingdoninHuntingdonPUBLISHED FRI 14 MAR 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Finance Team within Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - you will be joining at a time when you can help to redefine the team's ethos. For that reason, we are looking for candidates who can already demonstrate embodiment of the Trust's vales:

• Professionalism - including self-development and demonstrating compassion to colleagues
• Respect - creating and fostering positive relationships
• Innovation - looking for continuous improvement
• Dignity - treating colleagues as individuals
• Empowerment - building your confidence and independence

You will be part of a team which has gone through significant change over recent months and are therefore looking to rebuild their resilience. We are committed to providing a supportive work environment where employees can work to the best of their abilities. We value professional development and care about health & wellbeing of our staff with many initiatives in place to make us an employer of choice and an organisation than employees are proud to be a part of.

This role will provide you with opportunities to influence decision making, negotiate contractual income, report to Board and sub-committees, oversee final accounts and monthly reporting, and influence governance processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the production of financial information for statutory and other reporting purposes.
• Lead the finance input into commissioning agreements for the Trust.
• Lead the development of long-term financial plans for the Trust.
• Support wider input into System Transformation work as part of ICS development.
• Lead Capital Financial Planning and Accounting for the Trust and support Business Cases for capital expenditure.
• To act as Technical Accounting lead for the Trust and a key link to the Trust's Financial Shared Services Provider.
• Act as key link with Trust's Internal and External Auditors.
• Provide professional supervision, support and management to directly accountable staff.
• Contribute to the development of systems and processes within the Finance Department.

The Finance Department are a team of c.25, who are split between two main areas - financial accounting and assurance, which this role will lead, and financial management.

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Financial Planning

1. To lead, in conjunction with the Deputy Director of Finance, the production of Strategic Financial plans for the Trust including the development of Long-Term Financial Models.
2. To support and review Business Cases for future strategic capital developments.
3. To contribute towards the formulation and implementation of budgetary policies within the Trust.
4. To support the production of Financial Planning reports for the Trust Board.
5. To support, in conjunction with the Deputy Director of Finance, the wider System Transformation Plans as they are developed to ensure the Trust is fully engaged in the process.

Statutory Reporting

1. To lead the production of annual accounts and other statutory returns.
2. To be responsible for the production of all monthly, quarterly and other periodic financial monitoring reports for NHS England including financial accounts, cash flow, Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL) and other statutory reports.

Commissioning Agreements and Income Recovery

1. To lead on the financial elements of commissioning agreements for the trust, including negotiations with commissioners.
2. To be responsible for the reconciliation and monitoring of income and to oversee income accounting throughout the year.
3. To support the provision of performance monitoring information for commissioning agreements.
4. To lead the development of Service Line Reporting using PLICS within commissioning agreements.

Capital Accounting

1. To lead the financial management of the Trusts Fixed Asset base including the development and maintenance of a fixed asset register to comply with the NHS Capital Manual requirements.
2. To ensure all Fixed Assets are valued in accordance with NHS Financial Reporting Standards.
3. To oversee all fixed asset accounting required for the Trust.
4. To lead the development of annual Capital plans and budgets within overall resource assumptions.
5. To report to the Capital and Infrastructure Committee on the financial progress of the capital schemes throughout the year.
6. To provide financial advice and support on all capital accounting issues including available sources of capital funding and changes/developments in funding regime and legislation, and maintain professional working relationships, with the Trust Directors and other service managers.
7. To prepare and submit capital charges estimates in accordance with the Capital Charges Manual and to strict Department of Health/NHS England deadlines.
8. To lead the production of monthly capital finance reports for the Chief Finance Officer and the Trust Board in an agreed format.

Costing

1. To lead on all costing exercises as necessary, including PLICS.
2. To lead on the development of internal and external benchmarking to enable the Trust to monitor its unit costs accurately and compare itself with others.
3. To provide other costing information for internal and external use.

Technical Accounting

1. To act as the key link to the Trusts Shared Services Provider for all Financial Services.
2. To act as key link to Trusts Internal and External auditors and ensure that action plans are agreed and implemented for audit recommendations.
3. To ensure that all control accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis.
4. To ensure the Trusts Losses and Special Payments Register is maintained and complies with Department of Health guidelines.
5. To oversee the management of charitable funds, preparation of budgets and completion of monthly accounts together with the Annual Accounts and Annual Report.
6. To undertake the preparation of monthly cash flow forecasts and ensure the liquidity of the Trust at all times.
7. To lead the active management of Debtors and Creditors Balances and provide reports on a regular basis to the Trust Board on this.

Financial Monitoring and Reporting

1. To support the Chief Finance Officer in ensuring the Trust meets its financial targets.
2. To support the production of Financial Monitoring reports for the Trust Board.
3. To ensure accounting transactions are accurately recorded to support the financial reporting requirements of the Trust.
4. To maintain the integrity of the General Ledger at all times

Staff Management

1. To provide professional supervision, support and management to directly accountable staff.
2. To participate in the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) process for all directly managed staff.
3. To ensure the correct HR policies and procedures are followed for all directly managed staff (e.g. recording sickness absence and annual leave).
4. To contribute to the preparation and delivery of financial training to finance staff.
5. To take the lead role in the recruitment process for directly accountable staff.