Director of Financial Planning and Reporting

St Mary's Hospital; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

St Mary's Hospital is seeking a Director of Financial Planning and Reporting to oversee financial strategies and ensure effective performance across divisions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance with qualifications and experience leading teams in a complex organization. This hybrid role encourages flexible working arrangements and offers opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development opportunities

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead a finance team and manage change.
• Experience working with senior management and board members.
• Advanced analytical skills for strategic financial planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business planning process for the organization.
• Support CFO in performance management of directorates.
• Deliver financial reports to Trust Board and stakeholders.

Skills

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Change management

Analytical ability

Education

Membership of CCAB body

Masters degree in financial or business discipline

Doctorate or equivalent in business-related discipline

Tools

Business Intelligence software

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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St Mary's Hospital

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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Job overview

A fantastic opportunity to work in a high profile role with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the leading teaching hospitals in the country.

The Director of Financial Planning & Reporting will have responsibility for a broad and exciting remit covering Annual Planning, Reporting, Finance Continuous Improvement, Corporate Business Partnering and Productivity. This role is crucial to enabling clinical teams to perform effectively and to ensure divisions are delivering their financial plans.

The post holder will work closely with the Deputy CFO to provide leadership and direction to improve the financial performance of the Trust and deliver on the finance department's improvement programme.

This role requires an inclusive and encouraging leader who will ensure the Trust’s equality and diversity ethos and values are applied and promoted. You will be a qualified accountant with significant experience of strategic financial leadership in a complex organisation.

You will have excellent financial modelling skills, sound financial judgement, be comfortable at quickly developing and implementing solutions to highly complex problems, and experience in persuading and influencing key stakeholders.

If you are interested in applying please contact recruitment partner Nicola Brooks at I&E Professionals. All applications will be submitted through I&E professionals and not via NHS Jobs.

This is a hybrid role with an expectation of 2 days in the office, based at St Mary's Hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the business planning process for the organisation working closely with the strategic leads within the Trust as well as the income team and financial services ensuring plans are consistent, deliverable and meet overall trust, sector and national planning parameters.
• Supporting the CFO and Deputy CFO to ensure that divisional teams are effectively performance managing directorates and ensuring divisions are delivering their financial plans.
• Leading the monthly reporting process for the Trust delivering clear reports on the financial position to Trust Board, internal and external stakeholders. This will include ensuring the team is structured and ready to deliver on short notice submissions, Board papers and Trust Committee papers.
• To lead the Continuous Improvement Finance Team that will deliver on a range of initiatives on behalf of the whole department.
• Work closely with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer to provide leadership and direction to improve the financial performance of the Trust.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviewsplease view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications & training

• Membership of CCAB body
• Masters degree in financial or business discipline
• Doctorate or equivalent in business related discipline

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant strategic finance leadership
• Business case appraisal
• Significant experience working with senior management
• Experience of leading and managing a team including setting objectives, performance management and leading a team through change.
• Experience in delivering change Specific experience of designing and implementing financial reporting solutions and analytics to meet user needs
• Experience of analysing and understanding highly complex problems, arriving at solutions and being able to implement them and or persuade others to adapt and implement them
• Experience of using financial analysis to inform and drive major transformation programmes
• Experience of leading and managing change across teams
• Developing, leading and managing high performing teams, developing staff competencies and behaviours including managing difficult conversations
• Working with board and executive leadership teams

Skills & Abilities

• Advanced analytical ability Strategic financial planning
• Specific capabilities in financial modelling, database modelling, root cause analysis, and knowledge of Business Intelligence software
• Advanced business case appraisal Advanced knowledge of public sector finance and government accounting frameworks
• Advanced keyboard skills, powerpoint and excel
• Complex stakeholder management.
• Contribute to professional sphere by contributing articles to institute publications.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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