Regional Director of Finance

NHS England; Fulbourn; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization in Fulbourn is seeking a Regional Director of Finance to lead financial strategies and initiatives. This senior role involves collaborating with the NHS Regional Director and Chief Financial Officer to ensure financial sustainability and performance across the region. Candidates should have significant experience in financial leadership and strategy, with a strong ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders. The role also emphasizes reducing health inequalities and optimizing resource use.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial strategy development and implementation.
• Proven track record in financial planning and performance.
• Ability to lead complex financial reconfigurations.

Responsibilities

• Support the Chief Financial Officer in financial strategy and performance.
• Produce and implement a clear financial strategy for the region.
• Oversee financial planning and service redesign.

Skills

Financial leadership

Strategic planning

Budget management

Relationship building

Waste reduction programmes

Education

Relevant degree in finance or equivalent

Job description

Reporting directly to the NHS Regional Director, with professional accountability to the NHS Chief Financial Officer, the Regional Director of Finance is a senior member of the Regional Leadership Team, supporting the Regional Director in delivering national and regional priorities for health and care in the East of England region.

Working with an expert team and providing expert advice to the rest of the Regional Leadership Team, the Regional Director of Finance is accountable for delivering regional financial targets and value for money through ensuring that health systems and organisations have effective strategies and plans to achieve financial sustainability of services and deliver their financial performance trajectories, supported by effective waste reduction programmes.

A thought leader, both regionally and nationally, the role provides professional financial leadership of the NHS for all health systems and organisations in the region, building effective relationships and networks to ensure that the national finance direction of travel is relevant, credible, well communicated and ‘bought’ into by the finance community, whilst making a significant contribution to developing national finance strategy and policy. The role is frequently expected to work beyond finance, developing and implementing strategies to deliver the region’s health and care priorities and leading on non-finance areas as required.

• Support the Chief Financial officer in the development and implementation of the national finance regime i.e. financial strategy and performance.
• Produce, implement and articulate a clear financial strategy for the regions consistent with the long‑term plan, mandate requirements and national financial frameworks, resource assumptions and investment priorities.
• Oversee and assure the financial planning and redesign of services, particularly large scale and complex service reconfigurations, ensuring business cases are subject to rigorous financial appraisal, are financially viable and provide value for money.
• Lead value for money and efficiency programmes within the region, working closely with national and regional colleagues to ensure use of benchmarking, learning and best practice.
• Ensure that appropriate advice is provided to organisations and systems on national approaches to financial planning and performance for both capital and revenue (e.g. transformation funding, use of private finance for capital etc).
• Deliver regional financial targets (both capital and revenue) through ensuring that organisations and systems have effective plans and systems to achieve financial sustainability of services and deliver their financial performance trajectories, supported by effective waste reduction programmes.

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

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

We Lead The NHS In England By

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.

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 recruitment process.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alex Green‑Wilkes Job title: Regional Chief of Staff Email address: [e-mail]