Director of Finance Contracts Job Description

To lead and be responsible for the negotiation and management of key financial contracts with suppliers.

CONTRACTING

  1. To provide specialist advice to the Board on long term strategic implications of contracts.
  2. Negotiate annual contracts with respect to commissioning services, capacity planning.
  3. Manage the whole contracting process including negotiating variations to contracts, approving service changes and understanding the implications of any service changes.
  4. Be the principal expert on all issues relating to the Payment by Results ensuring that detailed technical guidance is interpreted correctly and understood by all.
  5. Lead the development and negotiation of all service level agreements / contracts for services (including hosted services).

Director of Finance Contracts Job Description

COMMISSIONING and CAPACITY PLANNING

  1. Work alongside Divisional General Managers to ensure the impact of all service changes and developments are fully understood, modelled, costed and agreed before changes are implemented.
  2. Contribute to the development of the long term service development and financial strategies.
  3. Contribute to the development of a service development and commissioning strategy.
  4. Lead responsibility for the production and maintenance of the capacity plan.
  5. Monitor the development of Independent Sector procurement devise and recommend courses of action to ensure financial implications are minimised.

6. Lead responsibility for Practice Based Commissioning and understanding / interpreting the impact on the business.
  7. Lead the development of an integrated costing model that supports specialties with service development / business case proposals and helps raise awareness of Divisional General Managers.
  8. Ensure Business Analysts are fully integrated into the planning and improvement processes across the company.
INFORMATION and FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

  1. Work with Divisional General Managers to ensure that business activity is understood and recorded correctly.
  2. Have lead responsibility for ensuring that the performance data is delivered by the Management Information in a timely manner.
  3. Interpret Management information and ensure that Divisional Managers Directors understand and act upon this accordingly.
  4. Lead on the development of financial performance data to the Board.

MANAGEMENT

  1. Ensure your staff receive high quality on-going training in their areas of responsibility. Give direction and guidance where your in-depth knowledge will enhance their performance
  2. Staff leadership including participation in the staff appraisal system with those staff with whom you have a direct line management relationship.
  3. If required the post holder will be expected to deal with staff performance and disciplinary issues.
  4. Participate as a key member of the Senior Finance Management Team.

  1. Educated to degree level.
  2. Post Graduate Qualification to masters level or equivalent.
  3. Evidence of continuous professional development and further specialist training at post degree level.
  4. Able to demonstrate a successful record of cross or inter organisation work.
  5. Experience of interpreting and implementing complex policy and guidance across a broad range of areas.
  6. Training in Contract Negotiation

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