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Finance Manager

Employer
Priory Adult Care
Location
Darlington, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 23, 2019

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Job Role
Finance Manager
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
When you join Priory Group you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the health, social care and education landscape across the UK. We are looking to appoint a Finance Manager to join our Priory Adult Care Division, this position is to cover the North Region within Priory Adult Care. Reporting to the Head of Finance for Adult Care you will support financial management across the North region of Priory Adult Care (subject to change as the business requires), with the overriding aim of helping senior management to improve the commercial and financial performance of each service. What we'd like from you: Qualified, CIMA, ACA or ACCA equivalent Able to manage a high work load across approximately 60 sites Flexible with travel with an average of 2 days out of the office per week, including occasional overnight stay Previous experience in a fast paced, high volume environment Good Microsoft Office skills Able to communicate with all levels of the business to stakeholders both within Finance and other parts of the business Excellent commercial acumen

Responsibilities:
Provides commercial support to the business unit in tendering for new business opportunities and contract renewals, including discussions with appropriate funders. Able to commute to regional and finance team meetings at various office locations and attend sites as and when required. In conjunction with the wider Finance function ensure the integrity, probity and reasonableness of local financial controls and financial data, in order to minimise financial risk via the correct implementation of local procedures. Provide recommendations that add value and / or create greater efficiencies. Assist the business with process non-compliance. Ensure sites are following proper procedure on all business applications and are adhering to best practice guidelines. Ensure financial system projects and roll outs are effectively planned and executed, including monitoring outputs and acting on issues arising in a timely and effective manner. Fundamental projects include cost control, inflationary fee uplifts and needs led fee increases. Review and provide input for the preparation of financial and activity based information across homes - e.g. budgets, forecasts, management accounts and benchmarking. Review and provide input for the preparation of financial and activity based information across homes - e.g. budgets, forecasts, management accounts and benchmarking. Ensure activities are within budget and where not immediately identifying this to the Head of Finance Adult Care and the relevant Managing Director. Key support role to site- including providing hands on help with queries and issues both on financial systems and policies and procedures. Undertakes projects for the Group which may cover a diverse range of topics within commercial and operational settings. Support the business unit to prepare business plans and undertake commercial evaluation of new opportunities and development plans for existing homes in conjunction with operations. Attend monthly business and finance reviews with Operations Director to support and interpret the key financial activity for the region. Make recommendations for improvements to drive commercial benefits. Complete the budget setting fieldwork required for each region of responsibility in line with the budget timetable as set by Group Attend sites to investigate financial irregularities as and when required and reconcile operational practises to the budget for each site Disclosure All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory Group will cover the cost of a DBS.

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