Directorate: Finance and Contracts
Location: Altnagelvin Hospital site
Reports to: Assistant Director of Financial Accounting and Contracts
Work contract and hours: Permanent and Full-time
Job Purpose
The post holder is required to support the Assistant Director of Financial Accounting & Contracts with a range of existing as well as emerging projects. The post holder will take a lead project management role, providing expert project management advice and direction in the development and implementation of plans to address a number of existing as well as emerging challenges. He/she will work in close partnership with a number of Finance service leads to support well defined service improvements and service developments. Initial priorities will include:
Lead in the undertaking of a quality service improvement project in relation to the Direct Payments Finance service;
Provide a coordinating lead for the COVID Independent Sector payment function of the Trust which is shared across a range of different Finance service areas;
The development of a number of new governance documents including:
Conflicts of Interest Guide / Policy;
Trust Procurement Guide;
Employee financial Hardship applications for salary overpayments.
In the context of a revised DoH DACs guidance, review and update current procedures and related documents;
Identification of internal audit recommendations which are outstanding and require action, specifically those in the Financial Services division.
The post holder will lead in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of key projects, and will work collaboratively with Finance and non-Finance operational leads to successfully deliver across the key priority areas.
The post holder will apply a project management approach to the various challenges, to support transformation and quality improvement, and will link with regional work to support this. He/she will be required to provide regular updates on progress to the Assistant Director of Finance & Contracts for consideration by the Senior Management Team and Trust Corporate Management Team.
Main Responsibilities
Provide a project management approach to the undertaking of a quality service improvement project in relation to the Direct Payments Finance service. This will including taking the lead in the:
- Effective liaison with the Direct Payments team;
- Effective liaison with leads from a service-wide Direct payments project which will include actions to inform service improvement;
- Review of business processes for payment function;
- Review of business processes for monitoring function;
- Establishment of robust financial governance framework;
- Review of related outstanding internal audit recommendations and identification of solutions to address same;
- Implementation of the new system;
- Development of recommendations for new business processes;
- Engagement with stakeholders both internal and external to the Finance function;
- Development of revised procedures and guides;
- Communication strategy;
- Baseline audit of existing resource and a capacity / demand analysis to inform current and future need;
- Regional performance, activity and resource bench-marking;
- Business Case for resources if appropriate.
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