Finance Business Partner

Katalysysts; Swindon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Swindon is seeking a Corporate Finance Business Partner to oversee financial efficiency efforts and improve programs. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong communication and project management skills. This contract position offers collaboration opportunities across multiple healthcare facilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial analysis and report generation.
• Ability to engage staff in operational improvement.
• Experience handling complex financial data and making recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Build and oversee the Trust’s improvement programme.
• Develop and manage the Trust’s efficiency tracking system.
• Lead programme management activities and governance meetings.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Collaboration

Project management

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

Great Western Hospital is looking for an energetic Corporate Finance Business Partner to join our award‑winning Finance team. The role is designed for a qualified accountant with strong communication skills who thrives in a collaborative, multi‑stakeholder environment. With the Trust moving to a Group model, this position offers career development opportunities and collaboration across Great Western, Royal United Hospitals Bath, and Salisbury District Hospital.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Transformation & Improvement team to build, oversee, challenge and support the Trust’s improvement programme, meeting short‑ and medium‑term efficiency targets.
• Maintain, develop and manage the Trust’s efficiency tracking system, ensuring governance and control arrangements are adequate and risks are highlighted with mitigation strategies.
• Test and challenge schemes with project leads, confirming savings and performance against quality‑related KPIs, and provide assurance evidence.
• Provide business‑leadership advice to Corporate and Estates divisions, ensuring effective use of financial resources to achieve agreed goals; ensure robust monthly performance monitoring reports.
• Lead programme management activities, including governance meetings, term of reference, reports, minutes, and decisions for multiple programme and control boards.
• Offer expertise on programme structuring, planning, benefits quantification, and tracking on behalf of the PMO.
• Hold Senior Responsible Owners accountable for efficiency programme delivery, providing high‑quality programme management and reporting to Boards and divisional meetings.
• Develop Improvement and Efficiency programmes, review key performance indicators, and monitor project delivery.
• Engage staff in change management, ensuring clinicians are involved in operational improvement and efficiency projects.
• Actively challenge clinical practice through reliable patient cost data, and lead qualitative and quantitative analysis and project audit within the benefit realisation process.
• Perform project management roles in partnership with the Transformation and Improvement team, designing appropriate project structures, scopes, plans, risks, interdependencies, benefits, and resources.
• Make decisions on complex issues, maintain consistent plans across projects, and manage projects using best‑practice approaches and tools.
• Collaborate with system partners to share and act upon financial improvement methodologies for efficiency delivery.
• Present financial information to Corporate Directors, influencing the Corporate and Estates teams to achieve financial objectives.
• Deliver detailed monthly financial reports, identify risks and opportunities, perform variance and trend analysis, provide year‑end forecast outturns, and monitor efficiency programme targets.
• Develop KPIs to inform decision‑making, finance planning, and forecasting, and challenge poor financial performance to ensure services are cost‑effective.
• Work with Divisional Directors of Operations and the Transformation team to analyse complex financial and non‑financial data, making recommendations and advising on improvement options.
• Prepare annual budgets for Corporate and Estates divisions, ensuring manager involvement, addressing prior year cost pressures, reflecting workforce plans, and adhering to the Trust’s budgeting framework.
• Manage aged debt positions within divisions, including debtor and creditor positions, and lead the financial elements of peer comparator returns and other system submissions.
• Increase financial capability of divisional management through financial awareness training and continuous support.
• Provide input to the Trust’s statutory financial reports.
• Line‑manage the Financial Efficiency Accountant, overseeing performance, sickness, grievance, bullying, and harassment issues in line with Trust policies.
• Conduct annual appraisals and objective setting to support continuous professional development.
• Ensure the divisional management accounts team delivers services that meet Finance department and division priorities.
• Maintain staff health and safety.
• Develop Trust‑wide policies and processes for service improvement in collaboration with relevant senior managers.
• Ensure compliance with procurement processes, policy, and statutory accounting requirements, DHSC and NHSI/E standards, corporate governance, and reporting requirements.
• Deliver training on financial instructions and core procedures to managers across the division.

Job Details

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level | Employment type: Contract | Job function: Finance

Contact

Please submit your application through the Great Western Hospital career portal.

EEO Statement

Great Western Hospital is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. All decisions on hiring are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.