Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant

NHS; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant to manage costing systems, produce activity data, and improve data quality. This role supports hybrid working arrangements and offers the chance to shape costing strategies across multiple trusts. Candidates should have NHS finance experience and strong IT skills. If you are eager to enhance financial insights in healthcare, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing costing information to managers.
• Skilled in producing detailed procedure and process documentation.
• Involvement in the production of national cost collection.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the Group’s costing systems.
• Produce accurate and meaningful costed activity data.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality.

Skills

NHS acute hospital finance

Excellent IT skills

Computerised accounting systems

Advanced spreadsheets

Database systems

NHS costing experience

Education

HFMA Membership

Job description

Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant

Closing date is 29 December 2025

This post is being advertised as band 5 or 6, dependent upon experience.

Our Planning, Costing, and Productivity teams at RUH Bath, GWH Swindon and SFT Salisbury have come together as part of the new BSW Hospitals Group, creating an exciting opportunity to shape a smarter, more integrated approach to costing across all three Trusts.

We’re now recruiting talented individuals to help us build this new way of working. With roles based at any of our group sites – Bath, Swindon or Salisbury – you’ll be part of a forward‑thinking team working at scale to deliver real impact.

Planning, Costing and Productivity in the NHS is a chance to bring real insight into how resources are used throughout the patient journey. Our team calculates the cost of every activity the Group provides, delivering mandatory cost returns, service line reporting and high‑quality information that influences key decision‑making, planning and benchmarking across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

As a Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant, you’ll play a key role in managing and running the Group’s costing systems, producing accurate, meaningful costed activity data on a quarterly cycle. You’ll drive continuous improvement in data quality, help refine costing processes, and work closely with colleagues across finance and operational teams to ensure our insights make a difference. You will work in a team of two Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountants.

The Group supports hybrid working, with two to three days per week on site.

About us

As Planning, Costing and Productivity Accountant, you will

• manage, update and maintain the Group’s costing systems to provide high quality data to support the Senior Finance Team, Divisional Directors/Managers, and Clinical Managers in all aspects of costing.
• provide cost data to support services with productivity reviews, benchmarking, planning and improved financial management of the Group’s activities.
• produce the annual national cost collection, a mandatory submission for all Trusts in the Group.
• liaise with service teams to identify and improve data which will enhance the quality and accuracy of costing.

Job responsibilities

Across our Group, our Finance teams are known for being supportive, collaborative and genuinely welcoming. We believe in helping every team member reach their full potential, with ongoing training, development opportunities and a strong culture of shared learning. All our teams are currently accredited at Level 1 with Future Focused Finance, and were ambitiously working towards Level 2 accreditation in 2026.

If you’re enthusiastic about improving healthcare through high‑quality financial insight and want to be part of an evolving, ambitious and supportive team we’d love to hear from you.

Further details can be found in the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NHS acute hospital finance
• HFMA Membership

Experience

• Providing costing information to managers
• Computerised accounting systems
• Producing detailed procedure and process documentation
• Excellent IT skills, including database systems, advanced spreadsheets, pivots and graphical presentation
• NHS costing experience, including involvement in production of national cost collection

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

BSW Hospitals Group (Swindon, Salisbury, Bath)