Directorate: Financial Management
Location: Admin Offices, Gransha Park, Londonderry
Contract and Hours: Permanent / Full-time (37.5hpw)
Closing date: 15 April 2026
Job summary
The post holder will be responsible to the Assistant Director of Financial Management for the provision of specialist business and financial information and advice to individual service directors, senior operational managers, clinicians and budget managers within the relevant Directorates.
The post holder will be responsible for and lead on the financial management advice and monitoring to a number of Directorates in the achievement of financial balance whilst meeting all other key commitments. This will specifically include the reporting and evaluation of financial performance and associated non-financial indicators, evaluation and monitoring of plans for change or improvement and design of processes to evaluate and solve complex problems issues in relation to financial reporting, business cases and financial forecast and costings to support business decisions.
The post holder will assist the Assistant Director of Financial Management with the production of the corporate Financial Strategy, the Financial Plan, saving/contingency/recovery plans, the annual budget setting process, the production of monthly financial performance information, monthly reporting of financial performance to the HSCB and the Trust Board/CMT all within an agreed timetable. The post holder will be responsible and lead all financial plans for their Directorates which will support data and information for the overall corporate financial planning as outlines above.
The post holder will assist the Assistant Director of Financial Management in the maintenance of the corporate financial systems including the budgetary control system to include data storage and reporting, reconciliations, controls, procedures and governance and be specifically responsible for their Directorates information within the systems.
The post holder will be required to work closely with a number of stakeholders both internal and external across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Main responsibilities
- Maintaining effective financial control within allocated Directorates and the services provided within that Directorate including inputting into the Trust’s Financial Strategy and Financial Plan, financial performance monitoring and reporting and the development of savings plans.
- Providing finance information and support to the accountability review process including monitoring in-year financial performance and forecast against the Trust’s overall Financial Plan.
- Forecasting information for their Directorates to support completing the mid-year financial assessment.
- The post holder will be responsible for and lead on the information required for the monthly Financial Performance Reports to the Trust Board/ CMT/ DOH/HSCB for their Directorates.
- Providing expert financial advice on the development and implementation of the relevant savings and contingency plans and to identify areas for efficiencies within their Directorates to support the overall breakeven plan for the organisation.
- The post holder will be responsible for and lead on the early identification of threats to the financial stability of the Trust by identifying risks within Directorates and agreeing corrective measures.
- Providing a comprehensive Financial Management service to specified Directorates of the Trust, including the full production of monthly financial performance reports and budget statements in accordance with pre-determined timetables, policies and procedures.
- Providing monthly financial performance reports and forecasts, analysing expenditure, activity trends and variances and to ensure that Directorates Senior Management Team and Heads of Service are continuously and fully appraised on the financial position for their services.
- Providing high quality advice and development of controls to support meeting targets on all financial issues relating to reform, modernisation and efficiency plans, service strategies, service development and revenue business cases, cash releasing, contingency/recovery plans, savings plans, cost pressures and revenue consequences of capital development proposals relevant within Directorates.
- Development, monitoring, measurement and reporting of key financial performance targets for their Directorates with an emphasis on continuous improvement and meeting the break-even organisational target.
- The post holder will be required to apply discretion and imitative in applying overall health service policy changes issued by the DoH and financial reporting standards (IFRs) in order to advise on clear operational goals, policies and standards for their Directorates. The post holder will also need to ensure that relevant staffs in their Directorates are aware of and abide by these policies and standards.
- The post holder will be responsible for and lead on a risk analysis of the financial position for their Directorates to identify any corrective action required, including issues to be addressed by the Directorates Senior Management Teams...
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