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Chief Finance Officer
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We are recruiting a Chief Finance Officer to join our team at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.
This is a rare opportunity to join a major NHS organisation at a significant point in its development.
The Trust has ambitious plans for the future. These include improving operational performance, strengthening financial sustainability, accelerating digital transformation, enhancing productivity, supporting neighbourhood-based models of care and continuing to improve quality and patient experience.
The Chief Finance Officer will play a critical role in helping the organisation deliver these ambitions.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Finance Officer is a statutory Executive Director and member of the Trust Board with collective responsibility for the overall leadership, strategy and performance of East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.
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- Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, the Chief Finance Officer will provide strategic leadership across Finance, Planning, Performance and Business Intelligence, ensuring that financial stewardship, operational delivery and strategic decision-making are supported by high-quality information, robust analysis and clear accountability.
- The postholder will act as a trusted adviser to the Chief Executive and Board, providing expert leadership on financial sustainability, investment decisions, commercial opportunities, productivity improvement and organisational performance.
- The successful candidate will contribute well beyond the traditional boundaries of finance leadership and play a major role in shaping organisational culture, strategic direction and system relationships.
- As a member of the Executive Team, the Chief Finance Officer will be expected to model the Trust's values, contribute to collective leadership and support the development of a high-performing organisation focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for patients and communities.
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This role offers the opportunity to influence not only the future of the Trust but also the wider health and care system across Hertfordshire and West Essex.
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