Senior Financial Planning Manager

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Coldharbour Works Building Town London Salary £88,250 - £100,355 per annum including High Cost Allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

The Senior Financial Planning Manager will be the deputy head of Financial Planning and Strategy, working with the Head of Financial Planning and Strategy to ensure that the team is working well to deliver all of the team’s functions, line managing two of the three Financial Planning Managers in the team and deputising for the Head of Financial Planning and Strategy when they are not available.

The Senior Financial Planning Manager will in particular lead the team’s work on financial modelling, ensuring that the Trust can forecast the impact of changes in policy from NHS England, South East London and other ICBs or wider financial regulations on the Trust’s financial strategy and plans.

• Lead work to model the long-term financial implications of planning guidance and other developments for the Trust’s financial strategy, maintain the Trust’s Long Term Financial Model and update it as required
• Communicate the forecasts from the long-term financial modelling work to the CFO, Executive, Trust Board and regulators in Board papers, planning submissions and through aural briefing
• Support the Head of Financial Planning and Strategy and the Director of Financial Planning and Investment to work across the Trust to develop, gain approval for and submit to regulators high quality financial plans to deadlines required
• Lead work on and serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and other senior leaders on at least two of the team’s main responsibilities of capital planning, efficiency reporting and investment approval
• Deputise for Head of Financial Planning and Strategy, leading the work of the team when the Head of Financial Planning and Strategy is not available
• Support other work across the team and the Department as required

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Our six strategic ambitions are delivering
high-quality patient care
; creating a great place to work
; leading pioneering research, innovation and education
; building strong and successful partnerships
; providing timely and efficient care
; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability
.

We have also agreed four new organisational values –
Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our…