Healthcare Finance Insight & Efficiency Analyst

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust in Blackburn invites applications for a Financial Analyst - Insights and Efficiency. The role supports development of advanced financial insight, costing, activity, income and operational data to inform decisions and improve services across the Lancashire and South Cumbria system.

Working in Analytical Finance, the post holder will build dashboards and models (Power BI/SQL) and collaborate with clinical, operational and finance colleagues to drive efficiency

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality analytical reports combining financial, activity, costing and benchmarking data.
• Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insight for finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Support development of service line reporting, benchmarking and value analysis.
• Identify trends, risks, opportunities and unwarranted variation.
• Develop and enhance dashboards and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI, SQL).
• Ensure outputs are accurate, validated and aligned to system definitions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of analytical methodologies and automation of reporting processes.
• Support identification, quantification and tracking of efficiency schemes.
• Provide analytical input into business cases and improvement initiatives.
• Use benchmarking and peer data to highlight opportunities.
• Work with services to validate assumptions underpinning plans.
• Support development of financial models and reporting structures.
• Work with BI colleagues, clinical and operational teams to improve data flows and integrity.
• Contribute to costing, income and performance datasets.

Job description

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust in Blackburn invites applications for a Financial Analyst - Insights and Efficiency. The role supports development of advanced financial insight, costing, activity, income and operational data to inform decisions and improve services across the Lancashire and South Cumbria system.

Working in Analytical Finance, the post holder will build dashboards and models (Power BI/SQL) and collaborate with clinical, operational and finance colleagues to drive efficiency