Overview

Commercial Finance Manager
London and South East Region
Full Time - Permanent

Salary: Up to £65,000 plus benefits (depending on level of experience, training and qualification) 

Circle Health Group are proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s top 5 best big companies to work for as well as top 5 to work for in the health and social care sector.

We have an opportunity for a Commercial Finance Manager to join their team of staff in the Senior Management department.

This is a full time role for 37.5 hours a week. The role holder will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern.

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Accountancy Degree
• Strong technology skills, including computerised financial systems and Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated ability to quickly appraise complex situations and to identify key issues
• Formal finance qualification
• Five years plus experience in senior finance role
• Experience of multi-site or otherwise distributed working environments, with local profit and loss responsibility
• Demonstrated experience in managing change successfully within the finance function

Duties of this role include: 

• The purpose of the Commercial Finance Manager is to provide finance support and expertise for hospital Senior Management Teams, driving a clear understanding of the operational and financial performance of the hospital (KPIs, trends, revenue, costs and EBITDAR), ensuring that financial control policies (including approval and authority limits) are followed where relevant, that a disciplined and consistent approach is taken to the management of costs and within-hospital working capital and that all business development and capital proposals are accompanied by a rigorous and commercially astute financial appraisal.  The Commercial Finance Manager also is responsible for hospital financial planning and monitoring.
• Alongside ED and SMT, carry out and report on a monthly review of hospital financial trends, results, operating KPIs and commentary as part of performance improvement and challenge (within SMT) to support delivery of hospital operating and financial budgets, including cost control, review of labour against the established through labour variance model, and monthly reporting to regional teams – such monthly review to be used for regional and corporate reporting and analysis
• Facilitate departmental review of operating performance and KPI trends, so support understanding of drivers of performance
• Payor, speciality, doctor and margin review, to support ED consultant and commissioner engagement activity (using commercial and NHS dashboards)
• Hospital capital expenditure incurred to balance sheet
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Salary & Benefits

Circle Health Group is committed to offering competitive starting salaries and access to a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service
• Private Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare Scheme for treatment at our hospitals, covering pre-existing medical conditions
• Friends & Family Hospital Discounts
• Family Friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay
• Life insurance
• One paid charity/volunteer day per year
• Extensive rewards and voluntary benefits including blue light card
• Free wellbeing services
• High Value Employee Referral Scheme
• Employee recognition programmes
• Industry leading training and development opportunities

…and much more!

Circle Health Group is committed to creating a diverse workforce offering inclusive opportunities for all our colleagues. Our definition of diversity goes beyond the established characteristics protected by the Equality Act, as we strive to attract candidates with diverse experiences, backgrounds, identities or expressions, skills, work styles…and more.

Circle Health Group are proud to be a Gold member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and we welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces Community. We are also part of The Valuable 500 and we pride ourselves in being a Disability Confident Employer.

We’re passionate about creating an environment where our people can thrive, grow and develop professionally and personally. Our principles and values guide our colleagues to be selfless, compassionate, committed, collaborative, brave, agile, tenacious and creative and are at the core of our purpose and culture. 

To find out more about the Circle Health Group Philosophy: https://careers.circlehealthgroup.co.uk/why-circle/our-philosophy