Senior Manager Finance Business Partner

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board; Leicester; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board is recruiting a Senior Manager Finance Business Partner to provide expert financial, management and business advice across the ICB. You will help deliver system transformation, develop and maintain financial plans and ensure value for money within a complex NHS environment.

You will work with senior staff and stakeholders to build robust investment cases, perform economic modelling and influence strategic decisions across secondary, community,

Qualifications

• Master’s level in relevant subject is required.
• Extensive knowledge of healthcare policy and NHS framework.
• Experience as a finance business partner with senior staff.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
• Develop robust investment cases with rigorous evaluation.
• Provide economic modelling input for business cases and recovery plans using appropriate modelling tools.
• Analyse financial data to identify opportunities for value for money and improvements.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align objectives and optimise resources.

Skills

Financial management

Business partnering

Strategic planning

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Master's degree in relevant subject

Tools

Modelling tools

Job description

Employer NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site County Hall/Haylock House Town Leicester/Kettering Salary £66,582 - £77,368 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59

Senior Manager Finance Business Partner

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.

Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.

Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:

• Our patients and our local population come first
• We work together in an open and accountable way
• We trust, challenge and support each other
• We do what we say we will do.

Job overview

Work flexibly as a member of the Finance Team providing financial expertise to deliver system transformation through best practice, ensuring value for money and adherence to financial governance and controls. Developing and maintaining System financial plans

Main duties of the job

Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.

• Undertake the role of a finance business partner with senior staff and provide expert professional financial, management and business advice to the ICB, including all aspects of the NHS healthcare regime, including secondary, community, intermediate and primary care.
• Work with colleagues to develop robust investment cases, providing support,challengeand rigour.
• Providing evaluation and economic modelling input into the development of business cases, recovery plans, joint working and partnership agreements using appropriate modellingtools and techniques.
• Analyses financial datain order to identify opportunities, working with Finance and non-finance colleagues to deliver value for money changes. This will include the analysis of benchmarking data and will support improvement plans using appropriate modellingtools and techniques.
• Ensure that the Business Partner finance function is proactive and influential in its contribution to the ICBs strategic and operational plan.
• Work across the organisation and with internal and external stakeholders as necessary and required.
• Identify opportunities for optimising the resources available to the health.

Working for our organisation

LNR ICB

The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:

• Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate
• National and regional colleagues at NHS England
• ICs partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives
• Non-NHS organisations
• Members of the public and service users as appropriate
• Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual objectives.
• External consultancy, as required.

Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation’s ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% on patch working, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.

This role will require a minimum of 2 days ‘on patch’ working in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in our 2 main offices or partner sites

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.

• Undertake the role of a finance business partner with senior staff and provide expert professional financial, management and business advice to the ICB, including all aspects of the NHS healthcare regime, including secondary, community, intermediate and primary care.
• Work with colleagues to develop robust investment cases, providing support,challengeand rigour.
• Providing evaluation and economic modelling input into the development of business cases, recovery plans, joint working and partnership agreements using appropriate modellingtools and techniques.
• Analyses financial datain order to identify opportunities, working with Finance and non-finance colleagues to deliver value for money changes. This will include the analysis of benchmarking data and will support improvement plans using appropriate modellingtools and techniques.
• Ensure that the Business Partner finance function is proactive and influential in its contribution to the ICBs strategic and operational plan.
• Work across the organisation and with internal and external stakeholders as necessary and required.
• Identify opportunities for optimising the resources available to the health.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Extensive knowledge of and expertise in specialisms relevant to function and role
• Proven and significant leadership experience
• Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Member of a relevant professional body

Communication Skills

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others

Analytical

• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution

Planning Skills

• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time

Autonomy

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Interpreting national policy for implementation

Management Skills

• Skills for direct line management and job management
• Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.

Physical Skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

Please note, there is an requirement for all positions at Bands 8b and above to be part of a On Call rota.

All new entrants to the ICB for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.

We are an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be welcomed and considered regardless of a person’s age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and those applicants need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, including the Job Description and Person Specification, to enable you to pursue your application, providing that you inform us of any special requirements.

L N R ICBs recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support the preparation of their application, for example to help with structure, grammar, or presentation. Applicants must ensure that all information submitted is accurate, authentic, and reflects their own skills, experience, and suitability for the role. Any use of AI in preparing an application must be clearly declared and may be explored or challenged as part of the interview and selection process.

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If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within the organisation.

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