Senior Finance Manager

NHS; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Finance Manager. The successful candidate will provide financial business partnering support, ensuring robust financial planning and analysis while leading key projects. Candidates should possess significant NHS experience and CCAB/CIMA qualification.

Benefits

Flexible working

Job share

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in finance management role in NHS.
• Strong leadership skills with a proven track record.
• Experience in managing staff and driving efficiency improvements.

Responsibilities

• Support Assistant Director of Finance in financial business partnering.
• Oversee budget setting and lead key financial projects.
• Develop business cases for service improvements.

Skills

Financial management

Leadership

Financial planning

Reporting

Education

CCAB/CIMA qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Finance Manager

The closing date is 05 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and experienced finance professional to join our team as a Senior Finance Manager. In this key leadership role, you will support the Assistant Director of Finance in delivering a full financial business partnering function, ensuring robust financial planning, analysis, and reporting for the Surgery and Heath Informatics Divisions. You will provide expert financial advice to senior management, oversee budget setting and business planning, and lead on key financial projects. The role also involves staff management, strategic planning, and working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders to drive service improvements.

We are looking for a CCAB/CIMA-qualified individual with substantial NHS financial management experience, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivering efficiency and performance improvements. If you thrive in a fast-paced, strategic environment and are passionate about supporting healthcare services through effective financial management, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

In this key Financial Management role, you will support the Assistant Director of Finance in delivering a full financial business partnering function, ensuring robust financial planning, analysis, and reporting. You will provide expert financial advice to senior management, oversee budget setting and business planning, and lead on key financial projects within a clinical Division. The role also involves staff management and working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders to drive service improvements.

We are looking for a CCAB/CIMA-qualified individual with substantial NHS financial management experience, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivering efficiency and performance improvements. If you thrive in a fast-paced, environment and are passionate about supporting healthcare services through effective financial management, we encourage you to apply.

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

As Senior Finance Manager (Band 8a), you will:

Provide support to the Assistant Director of Finance in the delivery of a full financial business partnering function.

Support the Assistant Director of Finance to ensure there is a sound financial basis for business and service changes, ensuring robust reporting and analysis is provided to enable the Division to maximize its financial performance and the Trust to fulfil its corporate financial duties.

Provide financial support and direction on a day-to-day basis in support of the delivery of the Trusts financial and business agenda.

Work as part of a financial management team supporting the longer-term financial strategy of a division within the devolved structure of the Trust.

Build strong relationships and liaise with a wide range of staff within and external to the Trust / Division / finance function in providing financial management support.

Deputise at all levels for the Assistant Director of Finance within the Division

Ensure robust financial information is provided to enable the Division to achieve its financial contribution in the longer term / Three Year Business Plan

Provide support to other Divisions and the corporate functions to maximize financial efficiency and provide the necessary support across all areas of the finance agenda

Develop business cases that support service improvements and ensure financial visibility.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced NHS finance professional to play a key role in shaping financial strategy and driving efficiency across the organisation.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Evidence of continuous professional development.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Experience of working in a large organization with complex management structures
• Extensive experience and expertise in a finance management role
• Experience in a staff management role
• Knowledge of NHS funding flows and the financial framework of an NHS Trust
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office, Excel and recognized accounting packages
• Experience of provide training on specialist financial management
• Proven track record of meeting internal and external deadlines
• Experience in report writing and delivering presentations to include development of business cases and formal presentations.
• Experience of delivering significant cost improvement programmes involving several key stakeholders.
• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
• Experience of best practice improvement techniques across a range of sectors
• Experience of working with Clinicians and across networks / range of partners
• Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
• Knowledge of PbR / PLICS
• Experience in working within the NHS / Foundation Trust
• Evidence of contribution to Organizational Development agenda
• Experience of project management

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Experience of presentation skills to wide ranging groups with different levels of responsibility and professional backgrounds
• Excellent leadership skills
• Evidence of persuasive, motivational, and negotiating skills
• Evidence of analytical / complex problem solving

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working