Financial Performance Manager - Fitness & Wellbeing

Nuffield Health; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health charity is seeking a Financial Performance Manager/Finance Business Partner to enhance financial performance in Fitness and Wellbeing services. This role involves collaborating with senior leadership and driving financial improvements while managing stakeholders effectively. Ideal candidates will have an ACA qualification and experience in financial analysis or business partnering. The position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid work schedule, comprising two days on-site work dependent on business needs.

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.
• High commercial acumen and ability to identify actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Monitor growth plans to ensure initiatives remain on track.
• Identify efficiency opportunities and challenge costs.
• Provide commercial decision support and business insights.
• Manage stakeholders across site leadership teams and the Executive Committee.

Skills

Financial improvement expertise

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Education

ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification

Job description

Financial Performance Manager/Finance Business Partner - Fitness & Wellbeing Services

Barbican, London | 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 fitness and wellbeing centres to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's health. 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 Fitness and Wellbeing service lines and achieve our ambitious 2026 EBITDA goals. You'll bring expertise in delivering financial improvements, ideally within multi-site consumer or leisure businesses, 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 fitness, leisure, or wellbeing industry, particularly 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.