Finance Analyst - Costing

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Closing date is 05 July 2026

We are recruiting for a Finance Analyst – Costing who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the trust's Financial Planning & Costing team for a Costing finance analyst.

The successful candidate will join an enthusiastic team and will help shape the future of our costing services as a key part of the trust's decision-making framework.

This is an exciting and varied role with opportunity to work with a range of internal and external stakeholders, developing service line reporting and patient level information & costing (PLICS) to inform decision making and improve patient care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Reporting to the Costing Finance Manager you will support the preparation and presentation of the trust's service line reporting and patient level information and cost reports, support the transition to cost-based funding mechanisms and contribute to the trust's transformation agenda through the identification of productivity and efficiency opportunities.

You will use your strong financial management and accounting knowledge and experience to lead the collection and validation of financial and activity data and assist with the development of processes and methodologies to improve the Costing outputs.

This is an excellent opportunity for an aspiring individual to join a high performing finance team, committed to excellence with a focus on enabling delivery of the best care to our patients.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Completed AAT Technician Stage or be part way through studying for a CCAB/CIMA qualification
• Degree or equivalent

• Experience working in NHS financial management or costing
• Experience working with and analysing large complex datasets
• Familiar with presenting complex information to a range of stakeholders, including non-finance professionals
• Experience working with acute provider NHS costing data; service line reporting (SLR) and/or patient level information & cost systems (PLICs)
• Experience of using SQL Server Management Studio
• Experience of building and maintaining reports in Power BI

• IT literate & proficient in Microsoft packages including Excel, Word and advanced keyboard skills
• Ability to apply knowledge to workload and demonstrate analytical skills
  
  Advanced Excel skills
• Good SQL query writing skills

• Understanding of accounting procedures, financial systems and general ledger
• Understanding of NHS finance regime and environment
• Knowledge of NHS costing standards and principles
• Understanding of NHS SUS & HES activity reporting

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Ability to manage own time
• Ability to work as a team
• Flexible and Adaptable

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust