Finance Lead

As a Senior Finance Lead, you will work as the bridge between NHS England's directorates and the specialist finance teams to produce high-quality financial reporting and advice that drives value for money and improves patient care., The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.,

• Leading the consolidation of financial and management reporting, assessing options, and making recommendations to deliver well-controlled and "single source of the truth" financial processes and reporting methodologies
• Leading at diverse levels to achieve the timely and accurate completion of specific financial objectives including annual budgets and monthly forecasting and reporting, and supporting areas of technical specialism such as income, capital accounting and VAT
• The NHS planning process - either or both of national commissioning and collection or local planning in response to the national commission
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Must hold a CCAB or CIMA professional accountancy qualification and have extensive relevant post-qualifying experience
• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area, Finance Partnering techniques and best practice and how to implement within a partnering team
• A clear understanding of how finance adds value to the wider organisation and how your role contributes to that
• Financial performance management and value for money at a strategic level
• Budgeting, costing, and forecasting techniques, Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference
• Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others, Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference
• Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others

UK Registration

The Secondary Care, Primary Care, Community Services, Vaccinations and Screening Finance and Planning Business Partnering team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for a Senior Finance Lead This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS. work closely with government to agree NHS funding ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;

look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS, NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services. In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the…