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Salary The Finance and Planning Directorate in NHS England is looking for talented, diverse, highly motivated people to join the Financial Control team as Senior Lead – Consolidation Development.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of the NHS. Across the directorate as a whole we:
• work closely with government to agree NHS funding;
• ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget set by Parliament;
• decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;
• support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;
• set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;
• report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;
• explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;
• look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.
• consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.
The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.
The main duties of the job are:
• Expertise in financial reporting together with high level of expertise in technical finance systems such as VBA in Excel / Oracle Business Intelligence, leading on elements of the A2R design and outputs of ISFE2.
• Lead responsibility for managing interface between ICB collection/reporting templates and the Integrated Single Financial Environment (ISFE) ledger.
• Overall responsibility for advanced Visual Basic for Applications and related code sign-off to comply with functional standards and support high quality financial reporting.
• Oversight of strategic direction of using business intelligence/visualisation tools (Power BI, Excel) and related coding languages eg. VBA, DAX, M Query, SQL.
• Expert awareness of financial reporting and how technology can support achievement of financial reporting objectives.
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role. You can find further details about the role, a letter from the Deputy CFOs and advice on completing your application in the Document to download section.
If you wish to discuss the role please contact Joe Boydell onjoe.boydell@nhs.net.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Apr 2024
