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Job overview

The Finance Analyst provides analytical support primarily for the Trust’s Capital and Efficiency Programmes. The role will be supporting the business through a significant period of change and at a financially challenging time.

The Finance Analyst role requires significant analytical experience, including the ability to work with and interpret large and complex datasets to support effective to support management in decision making.

They should also be able to work autonomously and be able to plan and prioritise work. This is a key supporting role to the Capital and Efficiency programmes, working with a wide range of stakeholders ensuring complex financial analysis is communicated effectively.

Main duties of the job

Reporting

To lead on processes to automate regular processing and report distribution.

To design and produce regular and ad-hoc management information reports that support management decision-making, performance, planning and evaluation.

· To design and produce regular and ad-hoc information reports for use by the Trust and its commissioners to accurately communicate trust activity and performance.

Ensure that all reports, internal and external are detailed, accurate and produced to schedule.

· Devise new reports and provide them in a timely, accurate manner, using a range of complex, difficult data sources, drawn from across patient pathways and from multiple organisations

· Provide a range of reports, outputs, reports, tables, presentation packs, forecast, data modelling and commentary on transformation indicators and other requested areas

To present the results of any complex modelling work to non-information staff in clear and unambiguous ways.

· Gather data and report on progress toward CIP programme objectives.

Working for our organisation

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Our six strategic ambitions are delivering high-quality patient care ; creating a great place to work ; leading pioneering research, innovation and education ; building strong and successful partnerships ; providing timely and efficient care ; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability .

We have also agreed four new organisational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Data Analysis

· Work with the IPDU team to provide analytical support (financial, qualitative and quantitative) to continually develop and refine the CIP Programme.

· Lead on Information analysis to support CIP and business planning process.

· Maintenance of all the required trackers including adherence to version control.

· Map and understand existing data available data and systems to create comprehensive change and service baselines.

· Integrate quality and financial data into change and service plans in ways that make information visual and easy to understand / action.

· Review and summarise national, regional, and local policy and research for healthcare quality improvement, service redesign, commissioning and value for money indicators to ensure guidance and best practice are incorporated in organisational development where appropriate.

· Work with clinical and corporate departments to map out strategic data including clinic, clinical, financial, quality and risk data. Understand the data and use it to create baselines for project objectives and to identify key patterns, gaps and anomalies.

· Work collaboratively with senior clinical and management staff to create new metrics, both by combining existing data in new ways and by gathering new data.

· Interrogate patient level data and report on changes in trends or patterns focusing on defined key performance indicators.

· Work with clinical teams, BIU and IT to establish the best ways for data to be visualised and create systems and structures to produce appropriate reports.

· Develop and maintain effective relationships and dialogue with providers and users of data to ensure opportunities for better information provision and usage are established.

· Carry out external and internal benchmarking information and identify targets as part of CIP development.

· Work across KCH, PRUH, KHP and beyond to obtain and analyse specified data sets and to reconcile data held in different forms.

Please refer to the job description for full details

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience
• CCAB part qualified or relevant appropriate experience of NHS Finance to postgraduate equivalent level

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in designing and developing complex reports using a variety of business intelligence applications
• Proven experience of working with relational database management systems
• Experience of using statistical packages to produce advanced analytics

Desirable criteria

• Experience using public health data to produce analytical intelligence

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent understanding of advanced analytical techniques such as modelling, benchmarking and statistical methods.
• Able to write complex reports including some programming skills and adding commentary

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