Principal Finance Manager

NHS; North Tyneside; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust is seeking an experienced finance professional to join their financial management team. The role involves managing a financial section, providing high-quality accounting services, and contributing to financial planning and governance. Candidates must be CCAB qualified accountants with substantial experience and strong interpersonal skills. The position offers the chance to work in a supportive environment, helping to maintain the Trust's financial integrity.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Substantial relevant experience working in a financial management environment.
• High level of knowledge of Financial Management regimes and legislation.
• Experience in the NHS financial regimes and legislation.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex financial management section within the acute sector.
• Provide professional financial management accounting service.
• Contribute to the corporate reports and financial planning advice.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

People management skills

Education

CCAB qualified accountant

Participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme

Tools

Oracle Financials computer system

Job description

Overview

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 13 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced finance professional to join our busy and dynamic financial management team. The post will support the chief finance manager in providing a professional high quality financial management accounting service to several specialties. This involves coordinating the operational financial management section providing financial and business planning advice as well as investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.

Candidates must be CCAB qualified accountants and have substantial relevant experience working in a financial management environment.

You will have excellent interpersonal, communication, presentations, analytical and people management skills and have experience of dealing with difficult situations and the ability to handle conflicting interests in a positive and professional manner.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the management of a Financial Management section in providing a professional, high quality financial management accounting service.
• Plays a leading role in both Business Unit and Trustwide teams in determining and monitoring strategic direction and operational processes.
• Responsible for investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.
• Provides financial and business planning advice and corporate reports to ensure financial controls are maintained in line with Corporate Governance requirements.
• Ensures statutory accounts & returns are accurate and meet agreed timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these where necessary.
• Contributes to the medium term financial strategy of the Trust and to the objectives of the Business Units.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn\'t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification.

Responsible for the management of a complex financial management section within the acute sector of the NHS.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme

Experience

• Highly developed specialist knowledge and experience of Financial Management regimes and legislation, acquired over a substantial period of time post-qualification, working alongside other experienced professional accountants, attending appropriate courses and undertaking extended self-study.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Financials computer system
• Specialist knowledge and experience of NHS financial regimes and legislation

Other

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust