Finance Analyst Nottingham, England
Job description
The Finance Analyst is a great opportunity for a finance professional looking to expand their skills and experience. Working across a diverse organisation this is a unique role involved in a wide range of financial and contracting functions and projects. The role will interact with senior managers in all areas of the Ambulance Service giving a broad understanding of the whole service. The role will be instrumental in developing new approaches to finance and contracting data analysis for the Ambulance Service.
The post holder, with the department’s other Finance Managers will be responsible for providing a professional financial service supporting senior managers on all aspects of the general business process, including the development of budgets, monitoring of performance, analysis of expenditure, and submission of the financial aspects of directorate business cases.
This role will involve a focus on supporting the Trust’s Contracting function which is responsible for managing the Urgent & Emergency Ambulance Service and Non-Emergency Patient Transport contracts.
The post holder will be responsible for the development of a set of analytics for contracts and will be required to analyse activity trends and associated resource requirements. This will include developing detailed activity forecasts based on existing trends taking into account environmental factors, demographic change and System developments.
The Finance Analyst will provide the financial lead in service developments and other special projects, including financial appraisal and evaluation. There is an expectation that the role will undertake financial planning; making plans for tax and other legislative changes. A key area of responsibility will be to provide day to day business support to budget/ project managers as required on financial matters including explanation of/ production of regular monitoring reports in the most appropriate format.
The role will provide financial and analytical support to the Trust’s Contracting function, the successful candidate will be required to analyse both financial and non financial data for internal use and external contracts and identify potential and actual contract risks, and provide expert guidance for appropriate risk mitigations.
The post holder will investigate complex financial queries providing assistance and advice as required as well as getting involved in the production of detailed budgets, using appropriate techniques (e.g. zero basing). Maintain accurate budgets throughout the financial year ensuring that financial systems can always be reconciled with central control records.
This is a unique and varied role in our big green family, working within our Finance Directorate. EMAS has five values which underpin everything we do, these values must be integral to your approach to the role; demonstratingrespectand in all you do, this autonomous role will requireintegrityandcompetencewith the ability to also work as part of widerteam, recognising the importance ofcontributionand encouraging innovation.
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Example responsibilities of the Finance Analyst include:
- Provide financial lead in service developments and other special projects, including financial appraisal and evaluation.
- Provide financial and analytical support to the Trust’s Contracting function.
- Undertake financial planning; make plans for tax and other legislative changes.
- Analyse both financial and non financial data for internal use and external contracts.
- Investigates complex financial queries providing assistance and advice as required.
- Production of detailed budgets, using appropriate techniques (e.g. zero basing). Maintain accurate budgets throughout the financial year ensuring that financial systems can always be reconciled with central control records.
- Provide day to day business support to budget/ project managers as required on financial matters including explanation of/ production of regular monitoring reports in the most appropriate format.
- Production of financial forecasts and dealing with ad hoc requests from budget/ project managers.
- Maintain internal reporting systems for the Finance and Performance Committee and Trust Board ensuring that financial records are accurately maintained and reporting timetables adhered to.
- Suggest changes to and implement accounting and financial policies and procedures in own area or section; costing of service development plans of other Directorates or Trust wide.
- Input into the development and reporting of service line management reports.
- Input into the completion of the national costing exercises for example reference costs and education and training.
- Input into the delivery of the Trust Final accounts.
