Head of Financial Reporting

NHS ENGLAND; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking a Head of Finance to lead the South Finance team’s financial reporting and analysis. You will oversee reporting for the South East region, ensuring timely, accurate financial information and developing best practices in reporting.

You will manage a small team, provide strategic insights to directors, and act as subject matter expert on national reporting changes, enabling triangulation of financial performance with other assurance sources.

Qualifications

• CCAB or CIMA qualified with up-to-date membership.
• Experience in financial reporting within a complex organisation.
• Ability to lead and develop a finance team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the regional financial reporting and analysis function.
• Ensure timetables for regional and national reporting are met.
• Provide strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.

Skills

CCAB/CIMA qualification

Financial reporting

Team leadership

Education

CCAB/CIMA qualification

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Head of Finance to join the South Finance team leading our financial reporting and analysis team.

The Finance team oversee the financial performance of the systems, ICBs and Trusts within the South East Region system, providing the necessary advice, guidance, support and challenge as appropriate. In our work accurate financial reporting and insightful analysis of financial data are vital to identify trends and support timely interventions.

Leading a small team, the Head of Financial Reporting will be responsible for the reporting of financial information in region and ensuring that regional and national reporting timetables are met and developing best practice in reporting., Take the lead responsibility for the timely and accurate reporting of financial information within the South East region ensuring that the financial reporting and analysis team develop and implement best practice in financial reporting.

Develop financial reporting in the South East region to enable understanding of trends in financial performance and triangulating financial positions with other sources of assurance.

Provide advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders as required including in depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports including financial returns.

Be the subject matter expert in relation to national changes in reporting and analysis and responsible for disseminating best practice across the South East region.

You will be a CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant (or equivalent) with full up to date membership and be able to demonstrate your experience in financial reporting in a complex organisation.

Join us in shaping the future of the NHS, NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.