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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. Occasional presence at our Glasgow / Edinburgh office(s) is a requirement for this role. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Work Pattern: Permanent, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week.
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.
The Finance Directorate operates under a Finance Business Partnering ethos to support NES in delivering their strategic objectives and in the management of its £700m annual budget within a robust and proportionate governance structure.
This senior leadership role will head up the NES Finance Business Partnering team and will provide technical financial advice and future focused decision support to various functions within the organisation, ensuring long term financial sustainability.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting senior leadership opportunity to help ensure the NES Business Partnering team deliver its strategic objectives and to be a key member of senior leadership team within the Directorate supporting the corporate position across NES.
We are seeking an experienced Finance Professional to lead a team of Finance Business Partners, ensuring provision of a comprehensive, effective and customer focused strategic financial advice and decision support service to the organisation.
Do you want to play a key role in leading the delivery of high quality and innovative finance business partnering services across NES?
Do you enjoy building and creating new relationships, contributing to a shared vision for the future in order to support positive change?
Do you enjoy making a difference, leading and influencing improved ways of working, and sharing innovative ideas?
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is keen to have an impact on the future development of the Finance function in NES. As Head of the Finance Business Partnering team you will have the opportunity to bring your unique leadership skills and experience to the table, collaborating across multiple workstreams to lead and effect real change within NES, and further afield.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Senior Finance Managers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you are a CCAB qualified accountant with post-qualification experience in a senior finance role and can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Proven leadership experience with expert knowledge of and experience in the application of management accounting techniques to support business decision making
- A clear knowledge and understanding of finance business partnering and how to support directorates to achieve their goals
- Aptitude for building key networks and strategic alliances across multiple stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to exercise sound professional judgement in a complex decision-making environment
- A confident influencer and negotiator with an ability quickly establish credibility with senior colleagues across the organisation
- Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex financial information and language simple for a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing, and at all levels).
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise workload and that of your team, and to meet strict deadlines
- Line Management and coaching/mentoring experience
As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
- Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and remote working
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
- Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
- NHS discounts and more
Diversity and Inclusion
Developing a successful national service for Scotland is impossible without ensuring we consider the diverse needs, perspectives and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland in our work.
We are focused on hiring the very best talent available for NES, and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and aim to ensure everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has a positive recruitment experience – regardless of the outcome.
It’s not essential to be in a Finance management/leadership role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning after working in another field. Your experiences elsewhere can bring a fresh perspective to our work.
If you are considering applying and feel it would be helpful to discuss this initially, please contact Laura Howard, Deputy Director of Finance, laura.howard3@nhs.scot
Next Steps
Our recruitment process for this post is currently remote and online, except for the interview stage, which will be in-person. If successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required. Please note, occasional presence at our Glasgow / Edinburgh office(s) is a requirement for this role.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
Face to face interviews (including presentation) will take place between Wednesday 31 January and Friday 2 February 2024 at our Edinburgh office. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.
For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CV’s will not be accepted.
If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot