Senior Head of Group Finance University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
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The Senior Head of Group Finance will be an integrated vital member of the clinical groups Board and will participate fully in the agenda for both financial and non-financial performance and arising issues.
The Senior Head of Group Finance will be supporting the Medicine Group and provide overall financial leadership and strategic direction ensuring that finance delivers a high quality customer focused service.
They will take overall responsibility for staff development and performance for the staff in the Financial Management Team that they lead.
They will take overall responsibility for the regular reporting of financial performance management information to the groups that they support and to the relevant Trust Committee's/Board as part of the Integrated Finance Report.
They will ensure efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and business focus of financial systems and processes across the groups they support.
They will take a strategic lead for ensuring that the Group operational expenditure is fit for purpose for Service Line Reporting.
They will deputise for the Associate Director of Financial Management and the Group Management Team as and when appropriate.
They will be required to make decisions within their own interpretation and understanding of national policies and professional standards.
Responsibilities- Post manages and provides leadership and direction to the members of the group finance team, providing strategic, financial, and individual objectives to each member of staff.
- Line manage staff within their respective financial management teams, taking responsibility for recruitment and selection decisions, appraisal, performance management, sickness absence, planning, agreeing monitoring of departmental workload.
- Develop the skills and competencies of staff through training and development activities, ensuring progress towards individual Personal Development Plans is maintained, reviewed, and updated.
- Support the development and maintenance of the Financial Management training programmes for clinicians and managers at all levels throughout the Trust; actively contribute to content and running of sessions.
- Ensure own and the team compliance with the Trust's mandatory training requirements.
- Provide support and advice to Groups during the production of business cases, including the application of recognised investment appraisal techniques to improve decision making, advise on financial risks and articulate short and long term consequences to enable decision making.
- Ensure that the Associate Director of Financial Management is aware of financial consequences of business cases being approved or in the planning pipeline.
- Work with the Groups to ensure that benchmarking data provided from the Performance and Information Department is understood at an operational level, and utilise this information together with value for money audits, to ensure best practice and optimal utilisation of resources.
- Work with procurement to negotiate external contracts with suppliers, including provision of financial advice on the outcome of tender evaluations.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Jul 2026