Finance Manager - Priory

Job Introduction

Our UK Healthcare segment have a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our talented and hard working team.

Sodexo Healthcare work by the side of healthcare organisations in both the public health (NHS Trusts) and private healthcare sector, using science, technology and global experience to enable human-centred care.

The role involves managing the day to day finances of the Priory contract, supporting commercial decision making, financial performance and identification and negotiation of contract variations.

Providing expert financial advice to operational management, facilitating the delivery of budget and other initiatives that will drive financial performance within the contract. Business partnering with the service leads and working with our client on an established, profitable contract

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Role Responsibility

Act as financial support for the Priory contract.  This will involve, but is not limited to:

• Creation of annual budgets and maintaining a robust forecasting process across the remit, identifying issues and opportunities and ensuring that the operations managers have plans in place to address them
• Work with site management to deliver accurate monthly accounts to reflect all activity within the account, ensuring that items such as variations, rechargeable works and major project activity are represented accurately.
• Develop a strong working relationship with the operational team - ensure they are all aware of current and future challenges.
• Providing expert financial advice to operational management, driving financial performance through commercially sound analysis
• Preparation of relevant, timely management information to equip the operators with the information required to make business decisions
• Work with the operational teams to analyse performance trends, risks and opportunities and to determine how best the insight from this work can be turned into real performance improvements in the business.
• Support both the sites and divisional region with financial reporting
• Ensure financial control environment is properly implemented, especially around weekly/monthly trading accounts, stock management and cost control.
• Identification of process efficiencies and personal training needs
• Ensure contract variations are appropriately documented, calculated and accounted for
• Adopt an approach of continuous improvement, keeping up-to-date with changes in policy, procedure and legislation. Revisit key policies regularly to ensure the team is up to date with recommended financial best practice
• To support the sites within the region and Head of Commercial Finance through a variety of ad hoc tasks focused around the identification and analysis of site performance metrics
• Undertake any associated project related work (e.g. IT system upgrades / Group initiatives) to assist with improving delivery of the finance team services and better support contract performance
• Support the implementation and on-going delivery of Sodexo and Health & Care segment strategies as required, ensuring effective change management
• Develop and maintain a professional working relationship with both internal and external clients to ensure the provision of a quality Finance support function at all times
• Maintain a flexible and team focused approach
• Other duties as requested by the Regional Director and Head of Commercial Finance

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Graduate calibre
• Strong communicator with the confidence and capability of challenging Operational Managers and ensuring adherence to agreed procedures
• Experience of providing financial support to service contracts
• Strong time management and organisational skills to deliver an effective Finance function
• Ability to work under pressure and ensure that deadlines are met
• Excellent commercial acumen with strong technical skills to deliver relevant, accurate analysis to facilitate decision making
• The ability to combine strategic and analytical perspectives with a pragmatic approach. 
• Ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial subjects
• The ability to keep focus on day-to-day performance whilst simultaneously pursuing longer-term opportunities
• Experience of financial modelling
• Good Excel skill and knowledge of other Office applications (Word/PowerPoint)
• Fluent English (written and Spoken)

Desirable:

• Qualified or part-Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) or QBE
• Experience of working in Healthcare environment or Facilities Management
• Experience of financial tools and systems (eg. SAP / Hyperion Essbase)

Package Description

£40,000 to £47,000 + Annual bonus and excellent benefits. 

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.