Senior Lead, Finance and Planning Business Partnering
NHS England
Leeds/London, LS1 4AP
Salary
£79,504 to £91,609
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
10 September 2026
10 days left
Job description
The Secondary Care, Primary Care, Community Services, Vaccinations and Screening Finance and Planning Business Partnering team in the NHS England Fina...
The team offers high 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.
As a Senior Finance Lead you will play a pivotal role in:
building strong relationships with senior leaders across the organisation;
building and leading a diverse, inclusive and high-performing team; and
using your own and your team's financial and planning expertise and knowledge to support delivery of the directorate and programmes' objectives.
You will be expected to work in a matrix fashion across the SPCVS team, with specific duties and responsibilities reflecting team priorities. You should expect to have a significant part of your role focusing on supporting the Chief Operating Officer Directorate (with sub-teams including Corporate Estates, Legal, Governance & Inquiries and People & Organisational Development), the Medical Directorate and Performance & Delivery Directorate. so will need to have or build a knowledge of the operations and policy objectives of these areas, with a focus on those that you will directly support.
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 announced that 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.
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.
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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Must hold a CCAB or CIMA professional accountancy qualification and have extensive relevant post-qualifying experience
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge
Essential
- Finance Partnering techniques and best practice and how to implement within a partnering team
- A clear understanding of how finance adds value to the wider organisation and how your role contributes to that
- Financial performance management and value for money at a strategic level
- Budgeting, costing, and forecasting techniques
Skills
Essential
- Leading the consolidation of financial and management reporting, assessing options, and making recommendations to deliver well-controlled and "single source of the truth" financial processes and reporting methodologies
- Leading at diverse levels to achieve the timely and accurate completion of specific financial objectives including annual budgets and monthly forecasting and reporting, and supporting areas of technical specialism such as income, capital accounting and VAT
- The NHS planning process - either or both of national commissioning and collection or local planning in response to the national commission
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
Values
Essential
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
27 August 2026
Last checked
31 August 2026
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