Finance Business Partner

Step into your Finance Business Partner career...

Are you a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant ready to move beyond the numbers and truly influence business decisions?

This is your opportunity to step into a Finance Business Partnering role where you’ll work directly with operational leaders, shaping strategy, driving performance, and making a real impact across vital healthcare services.

You’ll partner a diverse portfolio worth £30–40m
, gaining exposure, responsibility, and the chance to develop into a fully-fledged commercial finance leader.

This is far more than a reporting role — you’ll be at the heart of commercial decision-making:

• Producing and delivering monthly management accounts with clear, actionable insights
• Partnering with operational and clinical teams to drive financial performance and improve outcomes
• Supporting budgeting & forecasting
  , helping stakeholders plan and make smarter decisions
• Turning complex financial data into simple, impactful recommendations for non-finance colleagues
• Providing analysis on costs, revenue, contracts, and service performance
• Contributing to new bids, service improvements, and transformation projects
• Strengthening financial controls and identifying opportunities to improve processes

We’re keen to hear from ambitious, forward‑thinking finance professionals who want to step up into a commercial role.

• Part‑qualified or newly qualified (
  ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent
  )
• Experience preparing accounts (trial balance through to final accounts)
• Strong Excel and analytical skills
• Ability to explain financials clearly to non‑finance stakeholders
• Confidence to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
• A collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills
• Valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
• Exposure to business partnering or stakeholder‑facing roles
• Experience working with large cost bases or multiple service lines
• NHS / healthcare experience (helpful but not essential)

• £52,000 - £55,000 annual salary with group pension
• Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support – at locations across the country
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.