Main area Finance Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed term maternity leave cover.) Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week Job ref 272-7766849
Employer Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Civic Office Town Doncaster Salary £47,810 – £54,710 Pro Rata Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/04/2026 23:59
Assistant Finance Business Partner
Band 7
Job overview
Fixed Term for Maternity Cover
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner/Finance Business Partner in delivering comprehensive financial management support to either a Clinical Division or Corporate Directorates.
The role will be an integral part of the Finance Team providing a reliable and responsive financial management service to ensure the provision of high-quality financial advice and information to a variety of staff both within and outside of the Trust, and at different levels.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the Directorate Team advising on a wide range of financial issues.
Business and financial planning
- To support the development and monitoring annual budgets for the agreed areas of responsibility.
- To support the identification of Cost Improvement Plans for agreed areas of responsibility To provide financial and performance support to the development of Service Development and Business Plans for agreed areas of responsibilityPlay a key role in the Directorate’s business planning process, supporting the Finance Business Partner/Senior Finance Business Partner in providing advice, guidance and challenge.
- Prepare financial assessments of business plans. This will include the impact on efficiency, capacity, asset utilisation and activity.
- Financial and capacity modelling of the impact of changes in costs and activity relating to business plans.
- Develop a detailed understanding of key cost drivers and cost behaviour.
- Providing information and financial assessment to support reference costs submission and development of PLICs for Directorates.
- To communicate with all levels of staff both within the Finance Department and the wider Trust.
Working for our organisation
DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.
At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:
- Extensive range of learning opportunities
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
- NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
- Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully. Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
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Person specification
Qualifications & Training
- Qualified accountant – CCAB
- Evidence of continual professional development post qualification for at least 1 year
Knowledge & Experience
- Previous senior experience of management accounting and finance business partnering
- Budget control – development, managing and monitoring of annual budgets
- Supporting the identification, monitoring and reporting of cost improvement programmes and financial assessments of the cost effectiveness of services
- Supporting the development and testing the financial implications of business plans
- Monitoring, reporting and communication of financial position to various stakeholders.
- Development of actions plans to control and correct unfavourable expenditure and income variances
- Delivering financial related training to budget holders
- Advanced IT literate including experience of use and interrogation of general ledger systems and Excel
- Forecasting of financial position with stakeholders
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Able to communicate effectively with all levels of staff both verbally and in writing. This includes staff in other departments, such as budget holders, as well as colleagues within the department
- Analyse, interpret and report upon financial and non-financial information
- To effectively challenge systems, processes, business cases etc. to ensure use of resources are maximised
- Organise demanding workload with competing priorities to achieve deadlines
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications
If you choose to use AI or other tools to assist in writing your application, it’s essential to personalise this information, particularly your supporting statement.
While AI can help streamline the writing process, these tools cannot fully grasp the context or requirements of the job you’re applying for, nor can they accurately reflect your skills, knowledge, and experience. It is crucial that you personalise your supporting statement by articulating these in your unique voice.
Relying solely on AI to write your application or supporting statement is not advocated by DBTH and could negatively impact your chances of success in the application process.
Usual lack of relevance and failure to address the key criteria outlined in the job description and person specification may come across as generic and fail to distinguish you from other applicants. May be ambiguous or open to misinterpretation. Without careful review and editing, the supporting statement could convey messages that are unclear or misconstrued by hiring managers.
May include qualifications, skills, knowledge or experience that you do not possess, potentially leading to misrepresentation.
- Please note that all correspondence will be sent you to via email. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
- We reserve the right to close down this advert early should there be a high number of applicants.
- The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
- All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken. The Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event that they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Please note that this check will be charged for in two instalments when you commence employment with Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
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