Financial Controller

Health Jobs UK; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Financial Controller to lead the financial services team. This role ensures compliance with NHS standards, oversees statutory reporting, and develops financial forecasts. The ideal candidate will have a CCAB qualification and substantial experience in NHS financial regimes. Enjoy a rewarding career within a top NHS organization that emphasizes staff wellbeing and innovation while working in a vibrant community.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Expertise in NHS and NHS Foundation Trust financial regimes.
• Valid driving license and car use for work purposes.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial services team and ensure financial controls.
• Coordinate statutory reporting and audit processes.
• Develop business plans and financial forecasts.

Skills

Expert knowledge of Financial Services

Advanced practical knowledge of NHS legislation

Coaching and mentoring practices

Education

CCAB Professional Accountancy qualification

Tools

Oracle financial system

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is...the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you

• Extensive staff health and well‑being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It's open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated "outstanding" overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid‑19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

The Financial Services Department of Northumbria Healthcare provides a comprehensive financial accounting service to the Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust and its subsidiary companies. This encompasses accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury management, cashiering, charitable funds, patients' property and lease cars.

Main duties of the job

The postholder has overall responsibility for leading the financial services team, delivery of financial accounting and controls, statutory reporting, technical accounting expertise and efficient financial operations. This includes leading the production of the Annual Accounts and coordinating external and internal audit work.

The successful candidate will also play a key role in leading by example and modelling the behaviours outlined in the Trust's values. They are responsible for the leadership and development of team members.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities

• To coordinate and strategically develop a professional financial accounting service to the Trust in an effective and efficient manner in compliance with statutory and Department of Health guidelines.
• Ensures efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and business focus of financial systems and processes.
• Ensures all statutory/ NHS accounts and NHSE returns represent a true and fair view and meet financial timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these where necessary.
• Leads in the compilation of business plans and financial forecasts to allow the Trust to determine its future policy in relation to stated objectives.
• To ensure sound systems of internal financial control are in place.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Essential criteria:
  • CCAB Professional Accountancy qualification e.g. the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) or the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
  • Further specialist training and experience
  • Ongoing participation in the relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme as required by the professional accountancy body
• Desirable criteria:
  • Significant experience of Oracle financial system

Experience

• Essential criteria:
  • Expert knowledge of Financial Services, NHS & NHS Foundation Trust financial regimes, financial and non‑financial aspects of NHS legislation
  • An advanced expert practical knowledge of NHS legislation & policies (e.g. FTARM and underpinning accounting policies) and legislative and accounting requirements.
• Desirable criteria:
  • Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
  • Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, technqiues and methods

Other

• Essential criteria:
  • It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is able to use a car for work purposes. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under‑represented in our workforce as well as other under‑represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre‑employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• ADM8140-Financial Controller ( PDF , 400.4 KB )
• Northumbria Privacy Policy ( PDF , 520.6 KB )
• Northumbria Candidate Pack ( PDF , 624.3 KB )