Finance Business Partner

All roles in the integrated care board (ICB) share a common purpose and responsibility to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICS); to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; to tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; to enhance productivity and value for money and to help the National Health Service (NHS) support broader social and economic development.

The specific purpose of the role is to provide a high-quality management accounting service to non-finance budget holders, offering advice on complex financial issues including quantifying and evaluating options for service reconfiguration, development and realignments.

To support managers in ensuring sound financial controls are in place within the directorate and comply with the content and requirements of standing financial instructions and other financial regulations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to develop effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders and ability to negotiate with colleagues at all levels.
- Maintain ledger records to a high standard keeping a full audit trail of agreed changes.
- Prepare financial analysis, utilising range of data including historic in order to provide robust forecasting outturn projections and performance reviews.
- Produce accurate and detailed monthly finance reports including forecasts of the year-end position by using a wide range of IT skills to present complex data in an accessible and straightforward way to ensure understanding to non-finance managers. This includes being able to produce ranges of potential forecast outturn position depending on different scenarios.
- Ability to use sources of non-financial data in support of the reported financial position.
- Maintain records and be able to report the recurrent level of spend across budgets in the portfolio.
- Assist the on-going maintenance of roll-over budget calculations, calculating and recording of all budget virements and encompassing the identification and calculation of the current and full year effects of all adjustments.

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of our communities, managing the NHS budget, and arranging for the provision of joined up health services which improve the lives of people who live and work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

By collaborating as an integrated care system (ICS) our health and care organisations can tackle complex challenges, including:

- improving the health of children and young people
- supporting people to stay well and independent
- acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions
- supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues
- caring for those with multiple needs as populations age
- getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.

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Working with us

We are looking for people whose personal values and behaviours align with the NHS values outlined in the NHS Constitution and our own values and behaviours.

You can look forward to excellent benefits including discounts schemes, optional pension and life assurance, flexible working, salary sacrifice vehicles and cycles and much more.

Hybrid working

We offer the flexibility to work from an office (Bodmin, Truro or St Austell), and from home, depending on the requirements of the team.