MRP- Assistant Director of Operational Finance

NHS ENGLAND; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England Midlands seeks a qualified accountant with senior NHS finance experience to join the Midlands Operational Finance Directorate. You will oversee financial performance, provide clear financial advice, and support regional planning and transformation across NHS providers, ICBs and national finance leads.

You will work with senior NHS England and local system leaders to deliver priorities, monitor performance, manage risks, and lead finance teams in tackling major financial challenges

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with senior NHS finance experience.
• Experience leading finance teams and driving financial performance improvements.
• Ability to advise on regional planning, performance monitoring, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial performance and improvement for NHS England Midlands.
• Provide clear financial advice and support regional planning and transformation.
• Collaborate with NHS providers, ICBs and national finance leads to deliver priorities and manage risks.

Skills

Senior NHS finance experience

Leading finance teams

Financial performance management

Education

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or equivalent

Job description

You will work with senior NHS England and local system leaders to oversee financial performance and improvement. You willprovideclear financial advice, lead regional planning,monitorperformance, and manage risks. You will also work with providers, ICBs and national finance leads to deliver NHS priorities and support action when needed.

You will join an experienced and supportive regional finance team working on major NHS financial, operational, and strategic challenges. The role covers system leadership, financial recovery, planning, business cases, regulation, productivity, transformation, and improvement.

The role offers broad experience and supports progression to more senior NHS finance leadershiproles. You will make finance a trusted partner to clinical and operational colleagues. We are looking for someone with relevant financial experience who has led finance teams and has a strong commitment to NHS values and purpose.

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 announcedthat 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.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

You can find further details about the role,including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside theorganisational structureand person specificationin the attached Job Descriptionand other supporting documents.

For further details / informal visits contact: [e-mail]

We are seeking a qualified accountant with senior finance experience in the NHS or a related public healthcare organisation to join our Midlands Operational Finance Directorate.

NHS England Midlands works with 40 NHS providers,fiveICB clusters and national NHS and DHSCteams. It providesstrategic leadershipto deliverreform and transformationundertheNHS10-Year HealthPlan.Italsooverseesregional performanceacrossfinance,quality, access, productivity, and population health.

The NHS Midlands Finance team collaborates withpartnerstolead the development and delivery ofrevenue and capitalplans. It oversees provider and ICB budgets, assesses financial risks, supports organisations facing challenges, shares good practice and takes regulatory action when needed.