Head of Finance

Sellick Partnership; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Free parking

Job summary

Sellick Partnership is collaborating with an NHS Foundation Trust to recruit a Head of Commercial Finance. The role will provide strategic financial oversight across all commercial activities, strengthening income streams and ensuring value for money.

The postholder will work with the Commercial Director to develop pricing, forecasting, and business cases, while ensuring compliance with NHS financial regime and delivering robust financial leadership across the Trust’s commercial portfolio.

Qualifications

• CCAB qualified accountant with current membership.
• Experience in senior finance roles within private healthcare and/or NHS commercial services.
• Experience leading input into commercial strategy.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of the NHS financial regime.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic financial advice to Executive and Board-level committees.
• Ensure strong financial governance over commercial operations.
• Maintain robust risk management processes.
• Develop enhanced financial and activity reporting for the Trust's commercial services.
• Provide expert financial modelling and pricing for commercial ventures.
• Support negotiation of commercial contracts.
• Build financial capability across clinical and operational teams through coaching and training.
• Contribute to leadership of the wider Finance and Commercial function.
• Develop and review Trust policies relating to commercial activity, pricing, and income generation.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation skills

Financial modelling

NHS finance

Education

CCAB qualification

Job description

Location:

West Midlands – hybrid working

Contract:

Permanent

Closing date:

23:59 on Wednesday 4th November 2026

Overview of the Head of Commercial Finance role

Sellick Partnership is delighted to be partnering exclusively with an exceptional, high-performing NHS Foundation Trust to recruit a Head of Commercial Finance. This is an exciting, newly created leadership opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to play a pivotal role in shaping and developing the Trust’s commercial offering.

Working closely with the Commercial Director, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to make the role their own, providing strategic financial oversight across all commercial activities. With a focus on strengthening commercial income streams, building sustainable partnerships and ensuring value for money, the postholder will help drive innovation and support the Trust’s ambition to improve lives through outstanding care and services, while ensuring all commercial activity remains financially robust and aligned with the Trust’s values.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide strategic financial advice to Executive and Board-level committees
• Ensure strong financial governance over commercial operations
• Maintain robust risk management processes
• Develop a suite of enhanced financial and activity reporting for the Trust's commercial services
• Use in-depth specialist knowledge of NHS legislation and financial policies and draw on benchmarking and networks to provide financial advice, challenge and leadership on developments
• Provide expert financial modelling and pricing for commercial ventures
• Support Trust leadership in identifying new income opportunities and optimising existing ones
• Support negotiation of commercial contracts
• Build financial capability across clinical and operational teams through coaching and training
• Contribute to the leadership of the wider Finance and Commercial function
• Contribute to the development and review of Trust policies relating to commercial activity, pricing, and income generation
• Work collaboratively with commercial partners, system partners, and NHS organisations to develop service models and cross-organisational opportunities
• Provide financial leadership on all commercial contracts and partnerships
• Ensure robust financial controls, income assurance processes and reconciliation arrangements are in place across commercial activity
• Oversee invoicing, reconciliation, and validation processes as required for commercial activities
• Ensure full compliance with NHS financial regime, HM Treasury guidance, IFRS and Trust Standing Financial Instructions
• Analyse, interpret and present highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information that confirms, constrains, or influences the direction of proposals
• Support the development of business cases
• Ensure the impacts of developments are reflected in forecasts, in-year financial performance monitoring and financial planning
• Support the Head of Private Patient Services and the Commercial Director in negotiations with Private Medical Insurers
• Provide robust financial forecasting of income and expenditure for commercial services
• Lead the analysis and setting of fixed-cost patient packages
• Lead on price benchmarking and pricing strategy for the private patient services at the Trust
• Support new commercial opportunities with new and existing partners, developing innovative services, business models and ways of working

Required experience/qualifications:

• CCAB fully qualified accountant with current active membership
• Experience in senior finance positions within private healthcare and/or NHS commercial services
• Experience of leading financial input into commercial strategy
• Strong stakeholder skills, including influencing and negotiation
• Evidence of commercial acumen
• Understanding of the NHS financial regime
• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising with longevity
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• Free parking