Job Description
Job title: Finance Analyst
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week, Monday- Friday
Location: Beechwood Hall, High Wycombe
Introduction:
As Finance Analyst you are the key financial and commercial support to Senior Operational leaders helping them set the overall business strategy, drive our contract profitability and operational delivery. You will be working closely with Operational & Commercial leaders to ensure that bids, tenders, spend & investment decisions are made with financial rigour. You will agree financial targets and measure financial performance, and then work with operational teams to agree actions to drive improved performance.
About us:
InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions. Our aim is to make healthcare better for patients by working collaboratively with the NHS to deliver a range of high-quality tests, scans, assessments and procedures. In the last year, we have supported more than 4 million people in their healthcare journeys, the majority of these are NHS patients and service users.
As a people-focused organisation, our teams are integral in how we deliver our services and our values of Trust, Passion, Care and Fresh Thinking underpin everything we do, influencing the way we interact with patients, customers, and colleagues.
Our mission is to be the preferred provider of high-quality diagnostics and healthcare solutions in hospitals and in accessible community settings, serving 5 million patients from 1,000 locations by 2025.
What you will do:
You will work closely with senior operational & commercial leaders and other support teams to drive business performance to make healthcare better for our patients by:
- Business Partnering the operational Senior Management Team;
- Supporting new business opportunities, working with the business to ensure these are compelling for our customers and commercial attractive for InHealth with rigorous financials to support;
- Providing relevant and key financial reporting, enabling business performance to be tracked and understood;
- Building ambitious and realistic financial plans with key operational leaders to help drive the business forward;
- Using foresight to identify opportunities to improve financial performance or patient experience;
- Building strong relationships across the organisation to drive business performance.
What you are responsible for:
- Preparing the monthly management accounts, providing analysis of trends and performance for monthly business reviews, including development of KPIs.
- Developing and improving the consolidation and reporting of the business unit numbers.
- Providing key commercials analysis relevant to the business needs for use in pricing and costing decisions.
- Providing commercial support to the business leadership teams in support of complex agreements, market evaluation, determination and execution of strategy.
- Providing financial analysis for the annual planning process for the business.
- Ensuring rigor, control and support over the annual budget process for the business so that it is owned by the business and consistent with Group framework guidance and targets.
- Providing accurate monthly forecasts for the next month, full year and comparison to plan periods as required.
- Supporting delivery of pricing or costing models in support of business opportunities.
- Providing analysis of investments (including complex capital expenditure).
- Identifying system and process developments to ensure focus on continual improvement of activities within the InHealth finance team.
- Ensuring that cost efficiency is paramount within the business by identifying areas of unnecessary expenditure.
- Improving the profitability of the business by evaluating options around pricing, operating models (opening hours, booking system costs, etc.), use of capacity and consumables.
We are looking for someone who:
- A team player who is supportive, reliable and trustworthy/who gets stuck in and creates a positive atmosphere.
- A person who naturally instils confidence in everyone they work with.
- Someone who thrives on and is calm in challenging situations, working well under pressure.
- A person who makes good decisions and prioritises key issues.
- Someone who is approachable, dedicated and hardworking.
- A great communicator at all levels, handling pressure.
- A developing leader who can motivate, encourage and communicate with everyone.
You should apply if you have experience:
- Several years of experience working within a finance department.
- Fundamental accounting principles demonstrated by in-role experience and progress in studying for a professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
- Experience at manipulating and analysing high volumes of data and reporting findings concisely and understanding the commercial drivers behind the numbers.
- Ability to review business processes and performance on an operational level.
- Proven track record in making reporting efficiencies whilst maintaining strong controls.
- To communicate effectively with finance and non-finance colleagues as well as be seen as a credible finance partner to senior management.
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of understanding and enthusiasm about the business.
- Computer literate (MS Office) including intermediate Excel.
What can InHealth offer you?
We offer a fantastic benefits package, which is available through a mobile-enabled rewards platform, called InJoy. This is your place to access thousands of offers and discounts on a wide range of products and services relating to: fashion, travel, eating out, technology, leisure and more!
In addition to this, we also offer:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Generous company contribution pension scheme
- Private medical insurance options
- Life assurance
- Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities
- 24/7 access to a dedicated well-being hub and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced parental leave
- Monthly award programme and online peer-to-peer recognition
- Long service recognition, with vouchers and additional annual leave
- Refer a friend bonus
- Discounts on InHealth’s healthcare services
- Smart tech, Cycle to Work and thousands of discounts and cashback options
- Paid-for professional memberships and more!
Making sure our people are happy at work is one of our main priorities, which means giving them as many opportunities as we can to support their personal and professional growth. We also have an innovative approach to personal and professional development, helping you to be the best version of you and giving you a real career pathway.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in High Wycombe