Director of Finance

Integrated Care System; Manchester; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Care System is seeking a Director of Finance to drive financial management and strategy within Health Innovation Manchester. This pivotal role requires significant experience in the NHS and diverse leadership skills to shape the future of health innovation in Greater Manchester's integrated care system. The successful candidate will be pivotal in overseeing budgeting, compliance, and stakeholder collaboration, contributing to the improvement of health outcomes across the region.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in strategic financial management across various sectors.
• Strong commercial acumen with project accounting experience.
• Experience in procurement and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance and procurement work, overseeing financial planning and reporting.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders in health and academia.
• Ensure compliance with statutory duties and financial governance.

Skills

Leadership

Financial Management

Interpersonal Skills

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Education

CCAB Qualified Accountant

Degree Level or Equivalent

Job description

Go back Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Director of Finance

The closing date is 29 July 2025

At Health Innovation Manchester (HInM), we harness the power of innovation to transform the health and wellbeing of Greater Manchester's 2.8 million citizens. By accelerating innovation into the NHS and wider care system, we improve lives, reduce inequalities, and deliver better health outcomes.

We are seeking an exceptional and strategic Director of Finance to join our senior leadership team. This is a critical leadership position within HInM, providing high-level financial and commercial expertise to support our ambitious programme of transformation across health, care, industry, and academia.

Health Innovation Manchester is hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT).

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will lead HInM's finance and procurement work. You'll oversee all aspects of financial planning, reporting, governance, and compliance, ensuring the organisation meets its statutory duties and operates sustainably. This includes responsibility for budgeting, financial performance, costing, procurement, commercial contracts, and risk management.

As a visible leader and trusted adviser, you'll work with the Executive and Delivery Teams, supporting programmes, projects and strategic decisions. You will also collaborate externally with key stakeholders including NHS bodies, universities, local authorities, industry partners, and national funders.

Main duties of the job

We're looking for a qualified and experienced senior finance leader who thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment. You will bring:

Substantial experience in strategic financial management, ideally blending experience across a range of sectors, including public sector

Strong commercial acumen and experience of project accounting, complex financial planning and reporting

Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to partnership working

Experience of procurement, contracting and resource planning in a matrixed environment

Proven leadership and people management skills

Why Join Us?This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of health and care innovation in one of the UK's most dynamic regions. You'll join a supportive organisation with a strong collaborative ethos and a commitment to making real impact on people's lives

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• CCAB Qualified Accountant
• Educated to Degree Level or Equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development in financial management and leadership Skills, Knowledge, and Experience.

Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge and experience of developing internal financial policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of NHS Financial and Accounting Policies.
• Strong understanding of NHS financial governance, regulatory compliance, and statutory reporting.
• Knowledge of the NHS National Agenda.

Training and Experience

• Extensive, post-qualification, senior level experience in financial management in a complex organisation including leading across a system.
• Extensive experience in managing and developing high- performing finance teams.
• Proven experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
• Experience of working in different NHS Organisations
• Experience of NHS finance in a senior capacity

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to persuade, negotiate and influence at all levels with both internal and external stakeholders and other organisations.
• Highly developed leadership, interpersonal and negotiation skills, with the ability to work collaboratively at Board and system level.
• Ability to produce, analyse and interpret highly complex financial data and information.
• Advanced financial presentation and visualisation tools.

Attributes

• Encourages staff to develop themselves
• The ability to work collaboratively across the organisation.
• A team player with a positive attitude.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£109,179 to £125,637 a yearper annum, pro rata