Delivery Manager - Assurance

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication and the establishment of personal credibility at Board level with the clients are central to the job. This is built upon the provision and receipt of routine, highly complex, contentious, and sensitive information of a confidential nature. This will require the use of key skills of negotiation and persuasion, tact, a deep appreciation and understanding of complex and changing client risks, NHS/public sector systems and existing guidance.

These skills and requirements will be expected to be constantly developed and enhanced to meet changing environments and requirements. Discussions with senior and non-finance staff forms a substantial element of the job often concerning contentious and complicated financial, control and governance issues at a corporate level.

Communication will involve negotiating with external agencies. The job involves significant involvement in persuading and negotiating the reasoning behind recommendations with senior staff, up to and including Board level, across a range of disciplines in order to arrive at an agreed position. Communication of findings and advice will be personally and principally delivered through attendance at Director level meetings, committees, or groups of clients through high level presentations and potentially to large groups of staff.

Work is managed rather than supervised, with the jobholder working within procedures, broad guidelines as defined by the Quality System and Corporate policies but having substantial freedom to act with autonomy and to interpret policies, standards, and legislation.

The nature of the work necessitates a thorough and concentrated focus on processes to deliver consistent and robust opinions whilst balancing competing priorities. The work pattern is often unpredictable but there is routinely a need to actively participate and lead senior level discussions and workshops requiring high levels of sustained concentration. Meeting competing deadlines is a routine element of the job.

There is extensive scope for decision making in respect of planning and organising the personal and teamwork schedule, managing priorities, forming judgments on the adequacy and effectiveness of systems, and producing recommendations to deliver improvements. These decisions will be based upon detailed analysis and evaluation of complex systems issues and options across a range of systems. Such analysis will incorporate an assessment of potentially conflicting and multi-layered information e.g., option appraisals, serious disciplinary cases.

• Professional accountancy qualification (CCAB) or MIIA qualified or equivalent

• Demonstrable PQE skills knowledge, experience and expertise which could be in audit (either internal or external). Can be external audit with a large accountancy practice that has included experience of auditing large organisations and management or supervisory role of junior staff. Alternatively, internal audit experience in private or public sector. Must include attendance at Audit Committee and executive director exposure.
• Must have experience of working in audit and demonstrable understanding of audit role and techniques.
• Must have experience of managing and supervising staff.
• Experience of working in NHS or other public sector organisation resulting in a good understanding of systems and processes is desirable for the post. Alternative experience in an equivalent organisation may be acceptable.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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