Senior Finance Manager


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£66,274 to £73,496 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, SW10 0XD
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	20 Oct 2026
Closing date:	27 Oct 2026

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Summary

To hold regular meetings with budget holders to review their monthly financial position and discuss areas of over-spend and mitigations. To ensure that budgets are accurate, maintained in the ledger and that a full audit trail exists for changes to budgets. Closely working with the financial planning team, to develop improved systems and procedures for linking contract activity performance more explicitly with the division's financial position in order to achieve more accurate interpretation of variances from plan and to support financial planning. To co-ordinate and present monthly and periodic performance management reports for the division, including variance explanation and forecasts, in order to highlight required management action, particularly in relation to financial risk. To review transactions continuously within divisions to ensure compliance with delegated limits and approved processes ensuring that where breaches have occurred that appropriate disclosure is made and action taken to prevent recurrence. To assist Finance Business Partners with identifying and validating cost improvement programmes (CIPs) and monitoring the CIPs on a monthly basis and work with the Project Management Office to ensure the CIP tracker is kept up to date and reconciled to the ledger. To assist the Financial Planning Team with the preparation of annual financial budgets for divisions and clearly understand the planned activity these resources are intended to support; to maintain budgets to reflect accurately the division's activity, income and expenditure plans. To ensure that all accounting adjustments are appropriately authorised and disclosed. To take lead responsibility for training cost centre budget managers and ensuring all new staff in divisions receive training and access to reporting systems. To liaise with clinical/corporate leads and managers to ensure that the divisional finance team delivers a service which meets the priorities and service requirements of the division. To develop the training and knowledge of managers throughout the division on the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions and core financial and budgetary procedures. To support the Finance Business Partner to develop, update, and provide analysis/justification on the Division's underlying financial position, identifying risks, non-recurrent benefits/charges, full year effects, and other adjustments. To ensure effective communication throughout the division on the relevant and key issues for finance and contracting. To deputise for the Finance Business Partner as and when required. To represent the Divisional Management Team and Finance Business Partner in internal and external meetings as and when required. Management of a Finance Manager, to ensure that the staff within the team are supported in developing professional skills, training and development. To resolve employee grievances and disciplinary issues as appropriate.

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