Finance Analyst

**Finance Analyst**

**L ocation**: Harlow

**Job Type**: Temporary

**Duration of booking**:Expected to last 3 months (possible extension)

**Proposed start date**: ASAP

**Sector**: Healthcare

**Base**:Office

**Band**:6

**Pay Rates**:
£16.00 to £19.00 paye per hour

£19.00 to £20.00 paye inclusive of holiday pay per hour

£20.00 to £21.00 umbrella per hour

All of the rates are depending on skill and experience

**Working Days and Hours**:Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm

**Working from home**:The role requires the staff member to be working hybrid, with 2 days onsite at the hospital.

**Job Summary**:
Working closely with the Heads of Finance, involved in determining the best and most efficient ways to improving the times and accuracy for delivery. Focused on monthly management accounts and budget data. Provide ongoing support and direction for the budgetholders as well as investigating and reporting on variances.

**Main Duties**:

- Supporting Heads of Finance in the provision of a complete professional financial service to the allocated HCG, consolidating financial monthly performance reports and forecasts, through analysing trends and variances in accordance with the Trust monthlyfinancial timetable.
- To be responsible for the maintenance of strong financial controls in the allocated Specialty in line with Trust approved best practice for both expenditure and WTE. Advising on best practice for procurement to ensure efficiency.
- Ensuring that all specialty income sources are acknowledged and income agreements for SLA’s salary recharges etc are signed off in accordance with Trust policy and timetables.
- To be responsible for the development and implementation of Service Line Reporting (SLR) within the Specialty, in consultation with the Head of Finance for Health groups and the Trust’s Income & Commissioning Team.
- Undertaking periodic reviews of the financial controls within the Directorate and prepare reports and risk assessments based on information gathered.
- Meeting regularly with specialty Budget Holders and to provide information and analysis to them. In addition to support the communication of information between them and the specialty management accountants and other departments within Finance.
- To be responsible for the financial planning and implementation to achieve the objectives in the Trust and specialty Annual Plan and to take responsibility for specific projects. Responsible for the financial planning to identify the specialty savings programmesand to agree this framework with the specialty Boards. To ensure timely monitoring and reporting for these programmes against the agreed plan.
- To be responsible for the financial planning to enable the Specialty to implement major capital developments and realising benefits arising from these investments and the planning and costing for the specialty capital bids. To prepare costing models andbusiness cases for proposed developments and projects within the agreed timetable.
- Being responsible for providing a full financial advice service to a department of the specialty.
- To resolve queries from Management Accountants, Budget Holders and other Internal and External staff regarding financial management matters with mínimal supervision.
- To comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act with regard to the confidentiality of personal information and patient confidentiality.
- To assist in the production of the monthly management accounts

**Qualifications, Skills and Experience**:

- ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent full qualification
- Experience handling data, including analysis and modelling from data sets and effectively identifying patterns
- Strong ability using Excel and any other management tools is also desirable
- Proficient producing financial models