Band 9 Deputy Chief Finance Officer - Strategy, Insight & Delivery

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Romford is seeking a Deputy CFO to provide financial strategy and deliver improvements in financial sustainability. The ideal candidate will have advanced analytical understanding and excellent communication skills to navigate financial challenges and enhance patient care. This role is critical as the Trust aims to leverage big data for actionable insights and improve operational efficiency.

Benefits

London Living Wage employer

Flexible working options

Accredited apprenticeship programs

Qualifications

• Experience in financial improvement strategies.
• Leadership role in finance function required.
• Ability to analyze financial waste and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a sustainable financial improvement strategy.
• Drive delivery of financial sustainability.
• Leverage data for actionable insights.

Skills

Advanced analytical understanding

Excellent communication skills

Financial strategy development

Customer-focused service delivery

Education

Relevant financial qualifications

Job description

North East London (NEL) has a richly diverse population of around two million residents, with significant health inequalities and some of the fastest demographic growth in the country. BHRUT serves around 40% of this population and spends over £1bn of revenue and approximately £50m of capital each year. The Trust is looking to further improve value for money from this expenditure and drive the organisation to a sustainable, breakeven financial position.

You will provide compassionate leadership within the finance function and more broadly as a senior leader within BHRUT and the NEL Integrated Care System. They will drive delivery of financial sustainability through an uncompromising focus on value for the benefit of patients and residents. As a Finance function we are aiming to provide outstanding customer focused services, maximising opportunities from collaboration and digital. The Deputy CFO for Financial Strategy, Insight and Delivery is responsible for: 1. Developing and maintaining the Trusts 5-year sustainable financial improvement strategy, based on evidence of waste. 2. Converting this insight into robust delivery plans through the Finance Business Partners, working with operational, clinical and corporate teams to deliver recurrent financial improvement.

This is a highly specialist area requiring a Deputy CFO with advanced analytical understanding, sound judgement and excellent communication skills to guide the organisations sustainable financial improvement journey. Through the Financial Strategy and Insight team we will replace ad-hoc and externally supported pieces of work such as drivers of deficit, instead being able to answer the question, how much do we waste, where and why? This knowledge will drive improvement in productivity which is crucial to sustainable finance given existing NEL underlying deficits and population growth of 300,000.

It is increasingly important that we are patient/customer focused and guided by evidence - an approach that is well developed by some of the most successful organisations in the world. This means leveraging value from big data, converting it into actionable intelligence and developing the compelling case for change which engages our leadership teams, Trust Board and system partners in a way that drives positive and successful change. The Trust is implementing a new Electronic Patient Record in November 2025 putting BHRUT on the same platform as other providers in NEL which will materially increase the volume, complexity and speed of data but will equally increase the opportunity and demand for data driven insight.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.