Job summary
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking a highly skilled Commercial Financial Controller to provide expert financial leadership across commercial activities within the Trust. This pivotal role supports UHB's strategic ambition to Build Healthier Lives by ensuring that commercial income streams, ventures, partnerships, and contracts are financially robust, deliver value, and align with our core values -- Kind, Connected, Bold.
The postholder will lead the financial oversight of the Trust's commercial portfolio, driving highquality financial governance and ensuring commercial initiatives contribute effectively to UHB's strategic priorities for Patients, People, Potential, Place, and Performance.
At UHB you will join one of the largest and most forwardthinking NHS Foundation Trusts in the country. You'll work within a supportive and inclusive environment, contributing directly to the success of commercial initiatives that help strengthen and sustain patient care.
This role is primarily based at Regent Court, near Five Ways Island in central Birmingham, with the expectation of being on site at least three days per week, alongside the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week.
Please email Sarah.o'donnell@uhb.nhs.uk for further information.
Main duties of the job
Lead financial management and oversight of commercial activities and subsidiaries within UHB.
Provide highquality financial planning, forecasting, and commercial modelling to support strategic decisionmaking.
Ensure commercial ventures and income streams are developed, evaluated, and monitored using robust financial frameworks.
Produce timely, accurate, and insightful financial analysis and performance reports for senior stakeholders.
Support strong financial governance across contracts, partnerships, and business cases to maximise value for the Trust.
Advise senior leaders on financial risks, opportunities, and commercial strategy.
Foster collaborative working relationships with operational, financial, and external partners to strengthen commercial performance.
Ensure all activities align with UHB's values and the Trust's commitment to delivering highquality, sustainable healthcare services.
Please refer to the attached job description for a comprehensive list of role and responsibilities.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *CCAB recognised accountancy qualification
- *Post qualification experience in a complex environment
- *Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
- *Experience of monthly reporting cycles and population of month end reports
- *Report writing
- *Experience of working with other finance colleagues to ensure monthly tasks are completed within tight deadlines
Desirable
- *Experience of NHS capital reporting and funding mechanisms
- *Experience of NHS monthly and annual reporting processes
- *Experience of charity accounting and reporting and commercial entities
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Translate strategic directives into operational deliverables.
- *Use own initiative while knowing when to consult.
- *Logical thinker with sound analytical skills, able to deal with large volumes of complex data and perform highly complex analysis of financial data.
- *Ability to make judgements/decisions in complex situations and use professional judgement to ensure the best outcome for the Trust
- *Ability to clearly/ coherently document justification for professional judgements made
- *Manage a large workload and plan work according to changing priorities and deadlines
- *Excellent verbal and writing skills
- *Strong presentation skills
- *Outstanding communication skills
- *Well-developed systems and IT knowledge
- *Ability to use databases, analyse highly complex data, diagnose problems, identify solutions and undertake business case benefits analysis
- *Managing timetables milestones and diaries
- *Experience of personal development planning and monitoring
- *Manage time and work to tight deadlines and respond quickly and accurately to important issues
- *Promote, drive and deliver a customer focussed service
- *Remain calm and collected under pressure
- *Conflict resolutions skills
- *Influencing skills
- *High level analytical skills
- *Advanced Excel skills
- *A team player
- *Ability to explain complex concepts to non-financial team members and external parties.
- *Adhere to the Trust values and behaviours
- *Appetite for hard work in a challenging but rewarding environment
- *Enthusiastic
- *Confident
- *An understanding of and demonstrable commitment to equal opportunities
- *Evidence of reliability
- *Occasional travel between sites
- *Resilient
- *Adaptable to change
Desirable
- *Sound understanding of the NHS Financial Regime
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *CCAB recognised accountancy qualification
- *Post qualification experience in a complex environment
- *Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
- *Experience of monthly reporting cycles and population of month end reports
- *Report writing
- *Experience of working with other finance colleagues to ensure monthly tasks are completed within tight deadlines
Desirable
- *Experience of NHS capital reporting and funding mechanisms
- *Experience of NHS monthly and annual reporting processes
- *Experience of charity accounting and reporting and commercial entities
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Translate strategic directives into operational deliverables.
- *Use own initiative while knowing when to consult.
- *Logical thinker with sound analytical skills, able to deal with large volumes of complex data and perform highly complex analysis of financial data.
- *Ability to make judgements/decisions in complex situations and use professional judgement to ensure the best outcome for the Trust
- *Ability to clearly/ coherently document justification for professional judgements made
- *Manage a large workload and plan work according to changing priorities and deadlines
- *Excellent verbal and writing skills
- *Strong presentation skills
- *Outstanding communication skills
- *Well-developed systems and IT knowledge
- *Ability to use databases, analyse highly complex data, diagnose problems, identify solutions and undertake business case benefits analysis
- *Managing timetables milestones and diaries
- *Experience of personal development planning and monitoring
- *Manage time and work to tight deadlines and respond quickly and accurately to important issues
- *Promote, drive and deliver a customer focussed service
- *Remain calm and collected under pressure
- *Conflict resolutions skills
- *Influencing skills
- *High level analytical skills
- *Advanced Excel skills
- *A team player
- *Ability to explain complex concepts to non-financial team members and external parties.
- *Adhere to the Trust values and behaviours
- *Appetite for hard work in a challenging but rewarding environment
- *Enthusiastic
- *Confident
- *An understanding of and demonstrable commitment to equal opportunities
- *Evidence of reliability
- *Occasional travel between sites
- *Resilient
- *Adaptable to change
Desirable
- *Sound understanding of the NHS Financial Regime
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
