Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Nuffield Health; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in East Midlands is seeking a Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner. The successful candidate will collaborate with senior leadership to improve financial performance within hospitals. Ideal qualifications include ACA or equivalent with experience in finance business partnering. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of wellness benefits, including gym membership.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Proven track record of driving financial improvement within a complex organisation.
• Experience in FP&A or finance business partnering.
• Ability to identify actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior leadership teams to drive financial performance.
• Monitor growth plans and ensure initiatives stay on track.
• Identify efficiency opportunities and challenge costs.

Skills

Financial improvement

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Education

ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification

Job description

Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Derby and Leicester Hospitals | Hybrid Working (working 2 days on site – depending on business need) | Finance | Permanent | Full Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

As the Financial Performance Manager/Finance Business Partner, you’ll collaborate with senior leadership teams to drive the financial performance of our hospitals and achieve our ambitious 2026 EBITDA goals. You’ll bring expertise in delivering financial improvements, ideally within private hospitals, to this vital role.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring growth plans to ensure initiatives stay on track or are effectively mitigated if not

• Identifying efficiency opportunities and challenging costs to optimise our charity resources

• Embedding a culture of continuous financial performance improvement

• Providing commercial decision support and business insights

• Appraising business performance and investment opportunities

• Managing stakeholders across site leadership teams, regional management, and the Executive Committee

• Supporting central initiatives on an ad‑hoc basis, as needed

To succeed as our Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner, you’ll bring:

• ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification with post‑qualification experience

• Proven track record of driving financial improvement within a complex organisation

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge and negotiate effectively

• Experience in FP&A or finance business partnering

• Exceptional communication, influencing, and analytical skills

• High commercial acumen and the ability to identify actionable insights

• Experience in the healthcare industry, particularly within private hospitals, and across multiple sites is advantageous

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.