Senior Finance Manager

Blmk Icb; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Senior Finance Manager to lead management accounting and provide financial leadership across service lines. You will work with the Director of Finance, Chief Executive and Executive Directors to ensure financial performance targets are met and robust reporting is available to support service improvement.

The role offers an opportunity to influence financial leadership within a major NHS Trust, with emphasis on SL reporting

Qualifications

• Degree evidence required
• CIPFA membership evidence
• DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service) required

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate and timely financial performance reports for Directorates within agreed timetable with Director of Finance
• Monitor Directorate financial performance and implement corrective actions with General Managers and budget holders
• Lead annual budget setting for Directorates
• Develop Service Line Reporting and ensure users understand and use SLRs

Skills

Financial leadership

Management accounting

Service Line Reporting

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CIPFA membership (or eligible)

Job description

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Finance Manager

The closing date is 05 October 2026

At Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and pride ourselves on being a supportive team. We are a level 3 accredited One NHS Finance employer. We value our diverse workforce and our finance staff are pivotal in shaping how we address the financial challenges we face going forward.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to join our Management Accounting team. This post provides Senior financial leadership to a number of service lines within the Trust.

This is a critical role and will give the post holder the opportunity to interact with and work alongside the senior leadership of the Trust.

The broad purpose of the post is to support the Director of Finance, the Chief Executive, General Managers, Divisional Directors, Clinical Directors and all Executive and Non-Executive Directors in ensuring that the Trust meets both its financial and performance targets.

This is an excellent role for an ambitious individual who likes challenges, is self-motivated and wants to use their financial skills to add value and understand how financial resources can be used to support service improvement. The post holder will play a crucial role in ensuring robust and timely management accounting information is available to service lines.

Main duties of the job

Main roles include:

Ensuring the production of accurate and timely financial performance reports for the appropriate Directorates within a timetable agreed with the Director of Finance;

Monitoring financial performance of the Directorates and, where necessary, implementing corrective action with the relevant General Manager and budget holders to enable the Trust to meet its financial targets;

The annual budget setting of the Directorates;

The continuous development of Service Line Reporting, ensuring that the relevant General Manager and budget holders understand and use Service Line Reports

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Job responsibilities

The broad purpose of the post is to support the Director of Finance, the Chief Executive, General Managers, Divisional Directors, Clinical Directors and all Executive and Non-Executive Directors in ensuring that the Trust meets both its financial and performance targets.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of Degree

oQualifications

Qualifications

• oMember of appropriate professional body e.g. CIPFA - evidence

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.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust