Assistant Finance Business Partner

Assistant Finance Business Partner

Closing date: 24 June 2026.

An exciting development role in the Finance department of Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. This position offers an entry or stepping‑stone path to senior finance roles, with banding linked to experience, qualifications and behaviours. The team is creative, challenging, and supportive.

Key benefits: competitive pension, paid holidays, flexible working options (hybrid, reduced hours). The Trust is committed to inclusive practices.

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, responsibilities include:

• Produce high‑quality, timely Cost Centre Reports in line with policies and procedures.
• Ensure complete and accurate data input, audit‑ready—analyzing payroll, purchase ledger, sales ledger, etc.
• Collaborate with budget managers to analyze performance variances and support planning for directorates.
• Liaise on payroll matters, providing accurate staffing costs and maintaining updated staff in‑post lists.
• Respond to ad‑hoc financial analyses for budgeting, costing, skill mix reviews, and recruitment planning.
• Support improvement schemes and business case development, including historic service costs and new development alignment with NHS priorities.
• Provide training, education, and financial awareness to budget managers, ensuring compliance with Trust financial instructions.

• Ability to meet deadlines through effective organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to undertake highly complex analysis producing results of material consequence.
• Understanding and interpretation skills needed for a technical advisory role.
• Good presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness & personal integrity.
• Knowledge of key NHS financial performance targets and funding regime.
• Highly computer literate; proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Good communication and verbal reasoning skills.
• Understanding the need to maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage competing and changing workloads.
• Proactive, creative, flexible, able to work on own initiative and take responsibility.
• Commitment to work through the competency framework of skills and behaviours.

• Experience or knowledge of financial procedures and techniques equivalent to AAT.
• Technical or accountant‑level qualification, or actively studying toward a professional accountancy qualification.
• Commitment to commence study of a CCAB finance qualification.

• Recent, relevant experience within a management accounting environment in a large, complex organisation.
• Experience using computerised accounting software.
• Previous NHS finance experience.
• Sound knowledge of costing principles.

• Fit with the Trust’s organisational values.
• Flexibility in working hours, particularly to achieve deadlines for routine financial reporting.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and therefore requires a submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Band 4/5 depending on experience.