Director Finance jobs in United Kingdom

Royal Free is recruiting for a Head of Finance role to support the North Middlesex Health Unit, this would ideally suit an ambitious and dynamic candidate who is looking for the next challenging role which will allow them to gain exposure of working in a large acute trust with a group model that is continually evolving and growing. This is an exciting time to be joining the Trust as it expands its group modeland with the finance department currently going through a transformation to build a best-in-class Group Finance function focussed on delivering all financial operational targets and continuously striving to exceed stake holder expectations.

The Royal Free London group has recently expanded following the merger with North Middlesex Hospital NHST and now comprises four acute hospitals: Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital (including Group Clinical Services), North Middlesex. The Health Unit within the Royal Free group, has its own local leadership teams responsible for managing its own delivery, quality, risk, and operational and financial performance.

The health unit is responsible for overseeing Group Clinical Services across all health units, including Imaging, Pharmacy and Pathology services and oversees NCL hosted services for Breast Screening and Finchley Memorial Community diagnostic centre.

• Develop productive partnership working with other function leads to drive profitability and return on investment, developing short and medium term financial plans to support realisation of the group strategy.
• Maintain a professional reporting line into the Director of Financial Performance, whilst working closely with divisional and business unit management leads and directors, utilising professional judgement to progress business needs.
• Drive improvements in financial productivity within the divisions – leading on identification, advice and challenge for efficiency plans.
• Support directors, managers and clinicians in accessing and understanding financial information for their areas of budgetary responsibility. Provide support to build understanding of complex financial information.
• Support commercial propositions and to undertake or oversee the financial management of key contracts. Providing advice as necessary to leadership teams on any action(s) required to realise opportunities and mitigate risks arising.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

In this role the post holder will have responsibility for supporting the Director of Financial Performance and wider executive team to inform the strategic operational and financial development of the Health Unit; and ensure plans are in place and delivered to achieve the business unit strategy; underpinned by the delivery of short to medium-term objectives.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the business partnering team and be a critical interface between the group central finance and other functions, and the Health Unit finance team. They will be pivotal in fostering a culture of high performance and ensuring the delivery of the annual planning/budget setting cycle at the business unit level and ensuring strong Financial Control across the business unit.

The Trust is also operating in a financially challenged environment; therefore, the post holder will be a confident individual, that can influence and be the ‘critical friend’ with the wider business unit leaders to ensure strong grip and control and delivery of a very ambitious Financial Improvement Plan (FIP) target.

This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026.