Finance Analyst

NHS; London; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks a Finance Analyst to manage financial services for corporate directorates. The ideal candidate should be CCAB qualified with substantial NHS finance experience. Responsibilities include planning, forecasting, and managing educational funding. Competitive salary range of £56,276 to £63,176 annually. Flexible working arrangements available.

Qualifications

• Proven NHS experience within a finance function.
• Detailed knowledge of NHS finance including costing and income.
• Experience developing and reporting cost improvement schemes.

Responsibilities

• Provide an all-round financial management service including planning and forecasting.
• Manage and allocate funding across the Trust for educational needs.
• Deputise for the Finance Manager and Head of Finance as needed.

Skills

Excellent inter-personal skills

Ability to communicate complex financial concepts

Ability to work unsupervised

Education

Educated to degree level

CCAB qualified accountant/finalist

Tools

General Ledger software

Financial reporting software

Job description

Overview

The closing date is 02 October 2025

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a dynamic and self-motivated individual to join our team as a Finance Analyst, covering corporate directorates including Workforce and Training & Education.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), situated in the West End of London, is one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom and provides first class acute and specialist services both locally and to patients from throughout the UK and abroad.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

Responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

The post holder will be based at 250 Euston Road in offices across the road from the main hospital site, with flexibility to work remotely for part of the working week.

Responsible to the Finance Manager and Head of Finance, you will work in partnership with the relevant directors and service leads to provide an all-round financial management service including planning, forecasting, cost improvement identification and tracking, and providing support to business cases.

The Trust receives approximately £40m funding annually to support education and Training, and a key part of this role is to ensure the funding is managed and allocated across the Trust to support educational needs. There is also a growing focus on clearly demonstrating how the funding it receives is being spent; this role will be essential in developing and maintaining the financial modelling required to support this.

In addition, the role will oversee the Workforce Directorate which will involve a conventional financial management service to be provided but will also offer plentiful challenges and development opportunities.

You will be expected to contribute to the running of the Finance department, generate service improvement ideas and deputise as required for the Finance Manager and Head of Finance. You will be a strong communicator and will be able to work with non-Finance staff to present complex financial information in ways which will ensure engagement and understanding.

Qualifications & Experience

• Knowledge & Qualifications: Educated to degree level, with a strong academic record.
• CCAB qualified accountant/finalist or equivalent knowledge and experience in a relevant finance role.
• Post graduate level education of a financial nature.

• Experience: Proven and substantial NHS experience within a finance function.
• Detailed technical knowledge of NHS finance, including costing and income.
• Demonstrate experience of developing and reporting on cost improvement / productivity schemes
• Understands rationale for Standing Financial Instructions and has experience of ensuring that they are adhered to
• Experience of using General Ledger and Financial reporting software packages
• Able to work unsupervised and take decisions with minimal reference to line manager.
• Able to draw inferences from large complex information and data sets which could have major implications for Trust policy and decision making.
• Able to work confidently with large volumes of data of variable quality, presenting outputs in a clear way to enable understanding by finance, operational and clinical staff.
• Detailed knowledge of the operation of NHS Service Line Reporting.
• Experience of people management

• Values: Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values of safety, kindness, teamwork and improving

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent inter-personal skills, including the ability to communicate with all levels of non-finance staff (including clinicians) from budget holders to Directors both internal and external to the Trust.
• To report findings to others in the most appropriate and easily understood manner both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to enable quick understanding of complex financial concepts and processes to a very high level and to be able to continuously develop and improve such processes.

Personal and People Development

• Ability to deliver training clearly and concisely, on complex financial concepts to both finance and non-finance staff.
• Ability to manage, lead &/or work as part of teams.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Demonstrable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties

Other

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.

Salary: £56,276 to £63,176 a year, per annum inclusive of HCAS