HCRG Care Group is seeking a proactive and experienced Senior Finance Business Partner for a fixed-term contract through July 2025.
You will report to the Head of Finance to provide front line support, to maximise the financial performance of the Business Unit within the national HCRG Care Group organisation. You will be responsible producing key management reports and provide insightful and timely analysis that will help drive the performance of the business and optimise the Business Unit’s contract performance.
This is a full-time, fixed-term position until July 2025, offering a hybrid work model with ocasional travel required.
Package DescriptionAs a Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group.
You will feel valued as a Senior Finance Business Partner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Salary of £48,000.00, plus Group Pension, Fixed Term July 2025
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main ResponsibilitiesYour main responsibilities will include:
Lead the production of the monthly business unit performance reports, variance analysis, commentaries, forecasts and financial risk and opportunities.
Co-ordination and management of annual budget production and system upload for annual budget.
Co-ordination and management of the quarterly forecast process to highlight areas of risk to senior management/executives, be it on income and/or expenditure prior to year-end.
Provision of regular external finance reports to commissioners.
Ensuring that process disciplines and controls are adhered to and seek opportunities to recommend improvements to internal controls.
Acting as an expert to produce insightful and impactful timely information to help drive business improvements.
Provide costing support to business cases and provider to provider service level agreements.
Build relationships with teams throughout the business, maintaining positive relationships to provide effective customer service and provide support to colleagues as necessary.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal CandidateThe Ideal Candidate:
Essential
Technical
Qualified with a recognised accounting qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent) (May consider Part Qualified with evidence of relevant experience).
Experience of accounts preparation from TB to final accounts
Advanced Microsoft Excel user
Fully IT literate, able to adopt new systems with ease.
Driving license and access to car
Capabilities
Positive attitude and ability to work in a team.
Ability to prioritise and work under pressure of tight deadlines.
Ability to work in a dynamic reporting environment and adapt to change.
Confidence to challenge operational management when appropriate.
Ability to build strong relationships with site based operational contacts.
Must be able to clearly explain/interpret complex financial issue to non-financial operational contacts.
Desirable
Powerpoint
Relevant systems experience (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Proactis, iTrent)
NHS/Care sector experience
Please see the attached job description for a full person specification.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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