Senior Finance Manager

Senior Finance Manager

The closing date is 21 July 2026

The post holder is responsible for providing financial management, support and advice to designated divisions and directorates within the Trust. They will work closely with the relevant directorate managers to ensure financial targets are achieved. This includes production of accurate and timely budgets, monthly accounts and forecasts, investigation and advice on highly complex issues, provision of strategic financial and business planning advice.

The post holder will also ensure that the Head of Finance and the Head of Financial Management is fully informed of the financial performance and plans of the designated Directorates.

This is a senior post within the Finance Directorate and the post holder is expected to make a positive contribution to the overall objectives of the Directorate and the Trust, including training and coaching of finance and non-financial staff.

• Support the Divisional Head of Finance to provide high-quality business advice and support to a Division as directed by the Head of Financial Management.
• Collate the numerical and statistical aspects of the directorate business plans, providing advice and guidance to managers to agree staffing models and constraints. These will inform activity planning and financial planning.
• Provide information and support to budget holders and the divisional management team. This will involve complex calculations and investigations into financial/activity-related issues and occasional reviews of commercial-related issues. The information/advice provided will be used to achieve demanding financial targets.
• Establish relationships with senior management and directors within the organisation to ensure regular and meaningful dialogue, highlighting issues, risks and proposing mitigating actions.
• Investigate queries from budget holders and managers (typically from a non-financial background) relating to charges made to the financial ledger, payroll transactions, invoices and payments, etc.
• Ensure that the CIP programme for the division is embedded in the overall financial plan for the division and take responsibility for aspects of its delivery.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as a 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

• Has NHS Experience.
• Education and Training.
• Acute NHS Experience.
• Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

£63,665 to £70,887 a year Per Annum Including High Cost Area Supplement.