Senior Finance Manager | NHS England

NHS England; Greater London; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager in the Finance and Planning Directorate, within the Specialised Commissioning team. The role focuses on a £7bn+ spend area, supporting month-end, forecasting and year-end processes.

The post requires an experienced finance professional who can partner with stakeholders, manage risks, and deliver high-quality financial insights in a large public sector organisation. London Weighting applies, and secondees may be considered.

Qualifications

• Experienced finance professional – qualified accountant with substantial financial management experience in a large organisation.
• Proactive problem solver able to work independently and manage changing priorities.
• Able to learn quickly and adapt to complex information and new processes.
• Excellent communicator and business partner, able to influence across teams.
• Collaborative team player capable of cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end, forecasting and year-end within a £7bn+ specialised commissioning spend area.
• Apply and develop finance skills in a high-profile, fast-paced NHS environment.
• Work closely with Head of Finance and stakeholders to align funding with NHS priorities.
• Prepare finance analyses and provide robust challenge to improve efficiency and spend.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Financial management

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Adaptability

Communication

Job description

Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)

The Business Partnering Team – Specialised Commissioning in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for Senior Finance Manager.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS. We:

• work closely with government to agree NHS funding;
• ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget;
• decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;
• support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;
• set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;
• report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;
• explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;
• look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.
• consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.

As a Senior Finance Manager, you will apply and develop your finance skills across a £7bn+ specialised commissioning high-cost drugs spend area, supporting the Head of Finance with month-end, forecasting and year-end.

The team offershigh profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.

Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for.Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.

Experienced finance professional – qualified accountant with significant financial management experience gained in a large and complex organisation, ideally a public sector orhealthcare related organisation

Proactive problem solver – able to work independently, identify risks and issues, develop solutions and respond effectively to unexpected demands and changing priorities.

Able to learn and adapt quickly – comfortable getting to grips with complex information quickly, making sound judgements where there may not be an obvious solution, and embracing change.

Excellent communicator and business partner – able to explain complex financial information clearly to finance and non-finance colleagues, build strong stakeholder relationships and influence across cross-functional teams.

Collaborative team player – able to work effectively across organisational and professional boundaries, building positive relationships and working with others to deliver shared outcomes.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

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

In March 2025,the Government announcedthat NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role.

If you currently work within the NHS and 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 process.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

£94,356 - £108,814 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)

£57,528 - £64,750 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)