Associate Director of Finance

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 11 January 2026

We’re seeking an exceptional finance leader to join UHB as Associate Director of Finance – where you’ll shape the financial future of Good Hope Hospital.

The NHS 10 Year Plan is fundamentally reforming how resources flow through the health system – with multi‑year budgets, outcomes‑based contracts, and new financial incentives to shift investment from hospital to community care. Finance leaders will be critical in aligning funding flows with the plan’s goals, ensuring the financial foundation enables rather than constrains transformation. This is your opportunity to lead that work at Good Hope.

A CCAB‑qualified accountant with significant post‑qualification experience in strategic finance leadership within large, complex organisations will be a valued member of the Executive Team. You’ll be the senior finance voice – challenging at Board level, and driving strategic financial decision‑making across a complex, multi‑discipled hospital. Your financial modelling, business‑case development, and analytical skills are matched by political awareness and the ability to communicate complex issues persuasively to non‑finance executives.

Most critically, you’ll have the confidence to propose and implement decisions with far‑reaching strategic consequences, the authority to represent finance policy across the hospital, and the credibility to challenge and support in equal measure.

We’re seeking an exceptional finance leader to join UHB as Associate Director of Finance – where you’ll shape the financial future of Good Hope Hospital.

The NHS 10 Year Plan is fundamentally reforming how resources flow through the health system – with multi‑year budgets, outcomes‑based contracts, and new financial incentives to shift investment from hospital to community care. Finance leaders will be critical in aligning funding flows with the plan’s goals, ensuring the financial foundation enables rather than constrains transformation. This is your opportunity to lead that work at Good Hope.

A CCAB‑qualified accountant with significant post‑qualification experience in strategic finance leadership within large, complex organisations will be a valued member of the Executive Team. You’ll be the senior finance voice – challenging at Board level, and driving strategic financial decision‑making across a complex, multi‑discipled hospital. Your financial modelling, business‑case development, and analytical skills are matched by political awareness and the ability to communicate complex issues persuasively to non‑finance executives.

Most critically, you’ll have the confidence to propose and implement decisions with far‑reaching strategic consequences, the authority to represent finance policy across the hospital, and the credibility to challenge and support in equal measure.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long‑term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Please Note:

For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.

• Recognised Professional Accountancy Qualification – fully qualified member of a CCAB accountancy body (e.g. CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
• Expert and up‑to‑date knowledge of financial and accounting procedures including relevant legislation and NHS accounting policies acquired through professional accountancy…