Allen Lane is currently working with a specialist hospital that prides itself on delivering world leading treatment and research on some of the most debilitating diseases. Following a restructure, they have developed a new Finance Business Partner role that will support a couple of the clinical directorates. This role will be challenging, and you will be expected to establish a strong reputation for Finance within your directorates. With this being a newly developed post, the team are looking for an experienced business partner who can operate with little instruction, and help develop a strong relationship between finance and clinical members of staff. Your main duties will include; Acting as a Business Adviser, providing expert financial, commercial and strategic advice to their division/directorates. Lead the development and production of the Annual Financial Plan for the divisions, consisting of income, expenditure, workforce, activity and capacity planning. To support in the development, implementation and ongoing performance monitoring of Business Cases that further the strategic objectives of the division. To support in developing financial strategies for the divisions that enable the Trust to meet its objectives within the financial constraints it operates in. To assist the Divisions in the negotiation of contracts for the provision of services as well as the procurement of services. The successful candidate will be a qualified Accountant with previous NHS Business Partnering experience. Ideally having worked within an acute provider before, you will have strong interpersonal skills, allowing you to relay budgetary pressures to stakeholders. You will also need to have experience dealing with business case evaluation and implementation, as well as having led on the development of an Annual Financial Plan.