Job Description

Job Title: Finance Manager – Non-Acute Services

Band: 1 WTE – Band 7

Responsible to: Senior Finance Manager – Non-Acute Services

Accountable to: Deputy Chief Finance Officer

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Job Summary

This role will support the CCG with its service transformation programme, and will provide
robust financial monitoring and reporting of non-acute services to ensure budget holders can
achieve their financial duties and the delivery of value for money.

The role will provide a comprehensive financial management service to non-acute budget
holders, primarily within Community Services. This includes financial reporting and contract
management support, ensuring that effective reporting systems and best practice processes
are in place, promoting an internal culture of strong financial control throughout the CCG.

The role will support the Senior Finance Manager for Non-Acute Services with the financial
input to the CCG’s service transformation and redesign programmes, and support
commissioning managers in the preparation of business cases to the Board.

Specific purpose and delivery of role

FINANCIAL AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

 Responsible for providing advice and support to budget holders to ensure achievement
of performance to plan.
 Responsible for co-ordinating and producing monthly & yearly management accounts
supporting the non-acute finance report, ensuring the correct coding of expenditure
against the planned budget and correct accounting treatment of provisions made.
 Analyse and interpret information on the performance of contracts, identifying and
investigating reasons for any variances from plan.
 Maintain accurate budget reconciliations, and reconciliations of expenditure against
plan, updated monthly and supported by clear working papers.
  Maintain commitments, identify and investigate any variances from plan.
 Hold regular meetings with budget holders to agree expenditure and forecasts, and
mitigations for variances, ensuring strong financial management and control.
 Contribute to the business planning and budget setting process, and to provide the on-
going and regular financial monitoring information and advice needed to support the
effective management of these resources.
 Responsible for ensuring NCA activity is reported correctly.
 Support wider accounts processes for the CCG such as Agreement of Balances.
 Maintain all data sources and relevant analysis to a high audit standard and be
prepared to answer audit queries.
 Responsible for ensuring that there is continuous improvement in the monitoring and
analysis of information, applying best practice and promoting a culture of strong
financial control.

CONTRACTS AND COMMISSIONING

 Financial contract management for various contracts including agreeing plans,

producing contract monitoring analysis, validation and agreeing the financial position
with Trusts.
 Responsible for completion of finance schedules within defined contracts for contract
sign-off and contract negotiation.
 Provide financial support to the contracts team in negotiations with providers,
displaying appropriate levels of professionalism to support organisational interests and
deliver required outcomes.
 Produce analyses and reconciliations for finance and information technical contract
meetings.
 Attend finance and information technical contract meetings, and contract management
and negotiation meetings with providers.
 Co-ordination and prioritisation of detailed technical financial (and data) validation
including penalties & fines
 Proactively reviewing financial and activity information, drawing to the attention of the
contracts management team anything that may have a current or future
financial/performance impact.
 Responsible for improving the accuracy and content of financial monitoring, reporting
and forecasting.
 Calculation and agreeing standard and performance-related payments including
CQUIN payments to providers.
 Monitor payment of invoices for designated contracts, ensuring activity is validated and
 actions are taken to make timely payments.

PROGRAMME SUPPORT/ SERVICE TRANSFORMATION

 Responsible for providing financial support to service redesign proposals to deliver the
CCG’s service transformation programme, including representation on project groups
 Provide financial support and advice to commissioners in the development of business
cases and tender documentation, including costing, and activity and financial
modelling of service change.
 Work with contract managers and commissioners to identify savings opportunities.
 Lead on ad hoc costing projects, to support information required for business cases.
This includes collection of information from a variety of sources, interpretation and
analysis and communication of results within required timescales.
 Provide financial support to post-implementation review of service change projects.

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

 Deputise for the Senior Finance Manager, where required, across a wide range of
internal/external meetings.
 Support the achievement of overall team performance and objectives, and the
adoption of best practice in the team’s processes, leading by example. This will include
responsibility for quality control of reports issued by the team as delegated by the
Senior Finance Manager.
 Promoting a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
 Adopt new ways of working appropriate to operating more commercially e.g.
standardisation of processes and outputs.
 Support the development of the team including adherence to values and policies and
relevant workforce policies.
 Responsible for the line management of staff including appraisal and performance
review.
 Manage the development of the team including adherence to values and policies and
appraisal and performance review. Ensure staff undertake mandatory training and
have an annual appraisal each year in accordance with the CCG’s values and
behaviours and relevant workforce policies.
 Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and
stakeholder management, both internally and externally.
GENERAL

 Support the improvement of the financial systems and processes to ensure good
governance, stewardship, control and cost effective use of resources.
 Maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders and contractors.
 Attend meetings and present complex, sensitive or contentious financial information
and advice, to both finance and non-finance managers.
 Undertake other work commensurate with the level and seniority of the post.
 Ensure continuous professional development (CPD) in line with the accountancy
bodies’ requirements.
 Prolonged concentration is required when checking and reconciling information, setting
up spread sheets/undertaking calculations and answering queries.
 The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities
and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as
may reasonably be required by their line manager.
 The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an on-going basis in
accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Key Working Relationships

 Internal CCG staff including managers, colleagues and senior management as

appropriate
 External staff from partner organisations and NHS Trusts
 Non-NHS organisations
 Members of the public and service users as appropriate

Operational Responsibility

 Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and
delivered effectively
 Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and
evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex
information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management
 Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of
organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers
and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a
range of specialties, functions and projects
Financial and Physical Resources Responsibility

 Required to track financial expenditure and ensure activities/projects run to financial

plan.

Human Resources Responsibility

 Line manager for single function

Information Management Responsibility

 Responsible for the operation of one or more information systems

 Manages, maintains and develops various information systems

Planning and Organisation Responsibility

 Plan, organise broad range of complex activities, programmes requiring formulation

and adjustments to plan/strategy.

Policy and Service Development Responsibility

 Implement policies and propose changes to practices, procedures for own area. Also
develops administrative policies as required.

Research and Development Responsibility

 Undertakes surveys and audits as necessary to own work

Freedom to act

 Works to broad occupational policies

 Works on own initiative, specialist for own area

Analytical and Judgemental Responsibility

 Works with complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, and

comparison of range of options

Communication Responsibility

 Provide and receive complex or sensitive information, agreement or co-operation

 required
 Communicates business sensitive information/obtains agreement or co-operation from
NHS staff at all levels of the organisation is required

Our vision and values

Herts Valleys CCG is committed to planning and commissioning high-quality health services on behalf
of the population it serves, mainly within the boroughs of Hertsmere, Dacorum, St Albans, Three
Rivers and Watford. We seek to do this through close working relationships with our member
practices, the local councils, local provider organisations, voluntary organisations and local people
including patients and carers.

At the heart of what we do are the following values:

1. Being caring and respectful:

 We make sure that at the heart of all our decision-making is the impact on patient care.
 We treat everyone - including colleagues - with courtesy, listening to and respecting
everybody’s opinion.
 We support colleagues and partners.
2. Having ambition, courage and high standards:
 We do things that are going to make a positive difference to local people.
 We are optimistic that as a team - with partners and the public - we can change things.
 We expect ourselves and each other to produce high quality work.
 We are not afraid to do things differently to improve patient care.
3. Making sure we are open, transparent, honest and straightforward:
 We share our mistakes; and we are prepared to say ‘sorry’.
 We acknowledge that mistakes happen – and learn from them.
 We give each other honest and straightforward feedback.
 We celebrate and share good practice when things have gone well.
4. Working with partners and the public – as a team:
 We actively involve partners and local people in planning and decision-making - in genuine
partnership.
 We ask for people’s views and act on what they tell us.
 We explain how we’ve reached decisions and are clear in our communications.
 We co-operate fully and enthusiastically with colleagues in other teams to achieve aims.
  We appreciate everybody’s contribution.
5. Empowering and energising clinicians, staff and local people:
 We are enthusiastic about what we do.
 We encourage and support new ideas.
 We let colleagues and teams get on with projects.
6. Learning to be the best we can:
 We understand that we can always do better.
 We learn from others about how to do things better.
 We spend time learning new things

Person Specification

Supporting Evidence

In the supporting evidence of your application form, you must demonstrate your experiences
by giving specific examples for the criteria within the person specification.

Factors Description Essential Desirable Assessment

Education / Educated to degree level and part √ A/C

Qualifications qualified CCAB Accountant with
significant experience and
evidence of CPD

Fully qualified CCAB Accountant √ A/C

(CIMA/ACCA) with evidence of
CPD

Intermediate MS Excel user with √ A/I

ability to create and maintain smart
and complex models.

Knowledge / Minimum two years of experience √ A/I

Experience in financial contract management

Significant experience in a finance √ A/I

department in a complex
organisation and a good
 understanding of financial ledgers
and coding structures

Significant experience of √ A/I

management accounts, agreement
of balances, statutory/financial
returns and budget setting.

Experience in financial modelling √ A/I

for business cases and service
redesign

Ability to prepare and produce √ A/I

concise yet insightful
communications for dissemination
to senior stakeholders and a broad
range of stakeholders as required.

Demonstrated capability to analyse √ A/I

very complex information drawn
from multiple sources and to act
upon incomplete information, using
experience to make inferences and
decision making.

Knowledge of National tariff √ A/I

Payment System (Payment by
Results), NHS Standard Contract,
NHS Commissioning Data Flows,
Financial Regime and Who pays –
Determining responsibility for
payments to providers guidance
issued by NHS England

Values & Honest and Diligent. √ A/I

Behaviours
Committed and Resilient. √ A/I

Self-motivated and team player √ A/I

Approaches each day with energy, √ A/I

passion and persistence to exceed
expectations.

Confident and ability to inspire and √ A/I

motivate others.
 Embraces change, viewing it as an √ A/I
opportunity to learn and develop.

Demonstrates integrity and ability √ A/I

to embody and promote HVCCG
values.
Skills and Effective communicator. √ A/I
Capabilities
Drive and determination to √ A/I
succeed to overcome and resolve
problems.

Excellent interpersonal skills √ A/I

including tact and diplomacy to
boost rapport, influence for
required outcomes and strengthen
relationship with others.

Lead the team to achieve high √

standard of excellence through A/I
continuous improvement.

Provide practical leadership

through promotion of equality of
opportunity and good working
relations. √

*Assessment will take place with reference to the following information

A=Application form I=Interview T=Test C=Certificate