Finance Manager - Capital & Fixed Assets

St Mary's Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in London is seeking a Finance Manager for Capital and Fixed Assets to oversee financial operations and reporting. This role involves managing a team, maintaining the fixed asset register, and ensuring compliance with capital accounting standards. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, extensive experience in financial management, and relevant qualifications. The position offers opportunities for career development within a dynamic healthcare environment.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Demonstrable financial accounting experience.
• Solid understanding of complex accounting and financial reporting standards.
• Experience with capital accounting and managing asset registers.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end finance processes for capital management.
• Maintain and reconcile the fixed assets register.
• Provide strategic advice on capital investments and financial operations.

Skills

Accounting and analytical skills

Knowledge of VAT and financial regulations

Communication skills

Education

Professional Accountancy Qualifications (CCAB)

Relevant specialist training in NHS financial management

Tools

eFinancials

Excel

Business Objects

Qlikview

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Finance Manager - Capital & Fixed Assets, London

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Client:

St Mary's Hospital

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job overview

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is looking for a talented and forward-thinking Capital Finance Manager to join its high-performing Finance Directorate. With a turnover of £1.5 billion, ICHT delivers world-class specialist and acute care to over a million people across North West London and beyond.

As Finance Manager for Capital and Fixed Assets, you will play a central role in managing and enhancing the Trust’s capital financial operations—bringing rigour, insight, and leadership to a critical area of our finance function.

You’ll take responsibility for maintaining the fixed asset register, ensuring the accurate recording, classification, and reporting of all assets—including depreciation, disposals, and lease management. You will bring solid hands-on experience with fixed asset accounting systems and a thorough understanding of capital financial controls.

You’ll lead capital month-end processes, provide expert technical advice on capitalisation practices, and drive excellence in both internal and external reporting. Your analytical skills will enable you to extract insights from complex data, identify key trends, and support strategic decision-making on capital investment.

You will also lead and inspire a dedicated team of three, ensuring that reporting is delivered accurately and on time, and that the team continuously develops its strengths.

Main duties of the job

• Safeguard the integrity of the Trust’s capital financial systems, developing and refining financial policies, and working closely with internal and external audit and counter-fraud teams.
• Lead the month-end capital finance process, including preparing reports for external bodies, contributing to the Trust’s Annual Accounts, and managing the capital audit process.
• Take ownership of capital accounting—maintaining an accurate asset register, tracking expenditure across all capital schemes, managing depreciation journals, and reconciling assets regularly.
• Act as the Trust’s VAT expert on capital projects, ensuring full compliance with VAT and HMRC regulations.
• Support the Head of Capital Finance in ensuring that all financial systems and controls meet statutory requirements, through robust policies, procedures, and governance frameworks.

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

Education/ Qualifications

• Knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial reporting standards, and financial & other aspects of relevant legislation, gained through Professional Accountancy Qualifications (CCAB) and have great demonstratable financial accounting experience.
• Knowledge of complex accounting areas including VAT, Inventory, Cash
• Knowledge of Capital accounting
• Further relevant specialist training in technical skills and NHS financial management

Experience

• Have experience in the preparation of the statutory annual accounts process.
• Providing quality accounting services and financial advice to senior financial staff
• Proven experience of resolving complex financial accounting issues and communicating these at all levels
• Managing capital accounting processes, planning, monitoring, reporting using asset management systems
• Managing month and year end financial processes in a timely and accurate way
• Experience of working on capital projects
• Managing a wide range of internal and external stakeholder relationships, including negotiating outcomes to problems
• Significant experience of working within the NHS
• Capital Aset Register System (CARS) experience.
• Co-ordinating annual asset valuation exercise.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Technically competent with good accounting and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of current accounting issues and a detailed understanding of the regulatory framework
• User of relevant financial systems and advanced skills in Excel
• Able to solve complex, multi-dimensional issues, requiring concentration for long periods of time and analysis of complex data.
• Evidence of planning and delivering deadlines and service on time for self and teams.
• Specific experience of using eFinancials, Business Objects, Qlikview and other specific ICHT financial systems

Communication Skills

• Advises and persuades senior budget holders on financial issues

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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