Finance Business Partner

Posted Tuesday, 25 August 2026 at 00:00 | Expires Tuesday, 8 September 2026 at 23:59

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Function: Finance

Location: Hybrid Worker – Expectation is two days per week on site at our Nottingham office

Contract type: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: Offered on a starting salary of £56,476

Closing Date: Tuesday 8th September 2026

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.

We are looking for a highly analytical and commercially minded Finance Business Partner to provide expert financial support across the business. Acting as a trusted advisor to operational leaders and budget holders, you will help drive informed decision-making, improve financial performance, and support the delivery of strategic objectives.

You will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and business case development, delivering meaningful insights that influence both operational and strategic decisions. The role also plays a key part in evaluating investment opportunities, undertaking financial modelling, and ensuring effective financial management of third-party contracts and services

• Provide strategic financial business partnering and decision support to senior leaders and budget holders, offering insightful analysis, robust challenge, and recommendations that support operational and strategic objectives
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities, ensuring accurate financial projections, effective cost management, and alignment with organisational priorities and performance targets.
• Develop financial models and business cases to evaluate investment opportunities, support business growth initiatives, and enable informed decision-making through clear assessment of costs, benefits, risks, and return on investment.
• Deliver high-quality financial reporting and performance insights, analysing complex data sets to identify trends, risks and opportunities, and translating findings into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across the business and with external partners, influencing stakeholders at all levels to drive accountability, continuous improvement, and value-for-money outcomes.

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations.

Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

• Financial Analysis and Commercial Acumen: Abil…