Finance Manager

Overview

In this Finance Manager role, you will lead the month-end close and financial reporting for your divisions within a NHS Trust, ensuring accuracy and insightful variance analysis. You will provide financial guidance to senior stakeholders and budget holders, support budgeting and business cases, and drive improvements through automation and digital tools. You will also line-manage Management Accountants and deputise for the Finance Business Partner when needed. This is a key role for delivering robust financial management that supports high‑quality care.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• free parking
• health and wellbeing support
• staff networks
• development opportunities
• inclusive workplace

Responsibilities

• Lead the month-end closedown and financial reporting cycle with deadlines and controls
• Produce management accounts with variance and trend analysis for senior managers and clinicians
• Provide financial advice and challenge to support decision‑making and budget control
• Support budget setting, cost improvement plans, business cases, service developments and financial modelling
• Maintain the general ledger and reconcile funded establishments across systems
• Improve reporting through standardisation, automation and digital tools
• Deliver financial training to budget holders and non-finance colleagues
• Line manage and develop Management Accountant colleagues
• Deputise for the Finance Business Partner when required

Key requirements

• CCAB or CIMA – part or fully qualified; or qualified by experience
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Extensive experience in finance including demonstrable Financial Management
• Experience of leading month-end closedown with journals, accruals/prepayments, reconciliations and management accounts to deadline
• Experience of producing variance/trend analysis with clear narrative for non-finance stakeholders
• Experience of using general ledger and reporting systems and manipulating large datasets in Excel
• Experience of analysing highly complex financial and activity information and evaluating impact on business performance
• Experience of building strong working relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues
• Experience of managing own workload under tight, changing timescales

• strong communication with both finance and non-finance audiences
• relationship-building and influencing
• proactive problem-solving and decision-championing
• general ledger and reporting systems
• Excel (large datasets)
• financial modelling

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