Finance and Commercial Manager | Commercial & Financial Department | Harpenden| Full Time, Permanent | Up to £70,000 + Bonus + Car Allowance | Free Parking, Excellent Benefits

Spire Harpenden Hospital are looking for an experienced and driven Finance & Commercial Manager to join their established team. This is a great opportunity for someone looking at the next challenge in their career and progression within the healthcare environment. You will be supporting the Hospital Director and Senior Management Team in financial analysis, trend reporting, forecasting and establishing cost efficient opportunities and efficiencies. Working with Senior Management Team, Consultants, and Staff to develop and analyse market share in existing and new markets.

At Spire Harpenden Hospital, we pride ourselves on our comprehensive private hospital services and high standards of care for our patients. We offer fast access to high-quality healthcare, from consultations and advanced diagnostics to personalised treatments and expert aftercare.

Duties and responsibilities

• To work with the Hospital Director and Senior Management Team to develop the hospital's business strategy.
• Alongside the SMT provide the leadership in translating and implementing the hospital strategy into operational practice and to deliver on business objectives and annual operating plans for P&L and working capital.
• To deliver insightful analysis to support decision making and improve performance. To support and develop the financial, operational and commercial decision making of staff and teams in the hospital.
• To add value to the business to help managers push boundaries and promote risk taking in the drive to develop and deliver a differentiated service to our consultants and patients.
• To support business development by maximising resource allocation enabling the hospital to expand its reach into existing and new markets.
• To deliver the decision support, financial and operational reporting to ensure that the hospital operates efficiently, effectively and in compliance with corporate standards.
• To work with colleagues in the hospital to promote a commercial culture of continuous improvement in order to deliver the highest quality processes and services to consultants and patients whilst delivering the hospital's strategic plans.
• To ensure that the processes and structures of the hospital are appropriate for the delivery of robust data collection and delivery of accurate and meaningful monthly performance management information.
• To ensure the efficient and profitable delivery of patient services and NHS contracting.

Who we're looking for

• A commercially astute qualified accountant with significant experience gained in a financial role. Ideally this would be good to be within the healthcare sector, but it is not essential. It is critical that the candidate has the confidence to communicate corporate ideas and initiatives in a local hospital setting.
• Have excellent and developed interpersonal skills - an effective communicator (both written and orally) who inspires confidence, can influence others, offers challenge constructively and able to build appropriate working relationships to drive the achievement of business objectives.
• The candidate must present a positive stance with the key customers, ensuring that personal view do not impact on how finance is perceived and that the corporate agenda is delivered.
• Ability to interpret financial and operating data and identify where the value drivers are for profit and facilitate and champion change within the business.
• Promote the finance function in everything that they do, sharing best practice and ideas across the network and ensuring service led support to the business.
• Drive performance by holding self and others accountable for the achievement of performance expectations and create an environment that enables others to perform at their best.
• Be able to manage own workload, a self-starter with the ability to evaluate, plan and prioritise workload effectively within demanding timescales applying a "can do" attitude to get things done.
• Have experience of best in class implementation and BAU delivery of performance management systems and solutions.
• Lead change through people and securing high performance by effective collaborative working and empowering others.

Benefits

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement op