Head of Management Accounts

Main area Finance Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8c Contract 6 months (Fixed term 6 months/Secondment) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

Site Unipart Group Business Center Town Oxford Salary £79,504 - £91,609 per annum / pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 24/08/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital
, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this
Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use
Value Based Interviewing
to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please

OUH is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced finance professional to join the Financial Performance team as Deputy Head of Financial Performance on a fixed-term contract or secondment basis.

This role is critical to maintaining the provision of high-quality financial management, forecasting, reporting and insight across the Trust. The post will provide additional capacity to support core financial performance activities whilst the team continues to support delivery of the Trust's financial recovery programme, including CIP identification, reporting and delivery.

The successful candidate will work closely with operational and corporate stakeholders, providing financial analysis and insight to support informed decision-making and improved financial performance across the organisation.

The role is expected to be office-based one fixed day per week (Monday) and one additional day as required, with flexibility to work remote on other days. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Please note this is a fixed-term contract or secondment opportunity

The role will act as the corporate finance lead for operational financial performance, providing trust-wide oversight, analysis and insight to support financial sustainability, productivity improvement and informed decision-making. The post holder will lead on financial performance reporting, forecasting, analysis of key performance drivers, and support the development of robust management information to inform decisions at divisional, executive and Board level.

The Financial Performance team is committed to continuous improvement, collaboration and professional development, working across organisational boundaries to improve financial understanding and support delivery of the Trust's financial objectives

Hybrid working has given us the benefits of both face to face communication and problem solving and the benefits working from home, with excellent communication between the Financial Performance team and others in Finance to really deliver what the organisation needs.

We are working to embed a learning culture, encouraging staff at all levels to both undergo training and deliver training to others.

The Financial Performance team work closely with Finance, clinical and operational colleagues in the clinical divisions and also across the region.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

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Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH You Tube channel .