Job summary
Join us at an exciting time for the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) as we continue to build a modern, integrated Finance function supporting both Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital. We are seeking an exceptional, forward-thinking Assistant Director of Corporate Finance to play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of our Group.
As a senior leader, you will drive the strategic corporate finance agenda--leading integrated business planning, delivering high-quality financial reporting, and providing expert insight to support strong decision-making. You'll shape annual and multi-year plans, ensure accurate Group level consolidation and forecasting, oversee regulatory submissions, and strengthen relationships across system partners. You'll also lead development of UHN's Long Term Financial Models, champion automation, improve processes and align planning frameworks across both Trusts.
We are looking for a credible, dynamic finance leader with significant senior NHS finance experience, strong people management skills and expertise in planning, reporting and strategic analysis. If you thrive in complex environments and want to influence financial sustainability and patient outcomes, this role offers real impact.
Join our collaborative, ambitious leadership team and help drive innovation, efficiency and meaningful improvement across UHN.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and develop finance teams, ensuring strong performance, supervision and a supportive culture.
- Oversee strategic financial planning, creating robust annual and multi-year plans with clinical and corporate teams.
- Lead modelling and maintenance of long-term financial plans aligned with system-wide assumptions and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate planning inputs across revenue, cash, capital and balance sheet areas.
- Act as corporate finance lead for business planning, analysing demand, capacity and financial performance.
- Work with the Integrated Care Board and system partners to ensure aligned, coordinated planning.
- Oversee Group-level consolidation and reporting, including monthly I\&E, forecasts and efficiency programme reporting.
- Ensure automation opportunities are maximised and reporting structures meet internal and external requirements.
- Provide high-quality financial analysis and narrative to support senior decision-making.
- Lead timely regulatory submissions and maintain strong relationships with regulators and system partners.
- Ensure compliance with confidentiality, statutory duties, mandatory training and risk-management responsibilities.
About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For Full details and responsibilities of the role, please see attached job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
For Full details and responsibilities of the role, please see attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Education, Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level education or equivalent level or equivalent experience working at a senior level in a complex organisation
- Professionally qualified accountant (e.g. CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, ACA)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Postgraduate management or other relevant postgraduate qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience at a senior level in a complex organisation in a healthcare setting (e.g. NHS Trust, NHS Commissioner, NHS England and Improvement)
- Significant and extensive expert relevant experience in financial management including management of budget setting, month-end and forecasting
- Ability to develop and implement policy relating to finance which impacts on the whole organisation
- A record of achievement in leading significant change, managing and improving NHS financial management departments
- Ability to interpret health service policy on finance and apply to the development and change management of services in the Trust
- Ability to apply judgement to develop solutions to highly complex problems where there are conflicting priorities and there is no precedent
- Specialist knowledge of NHS finance, gained over a number of years' experience, and attendance at structured training events, covering management accounts reporting, forecasting and the preparation of business cases
- Expert specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures including current legislation and NHS accounting policies
Skills
Essential
- Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing
- Ability to present information clearly to a range of audiences including the public
- Project management skills
- Ability to adopt an adaptive leadership style in a politically sensitive and complex environment. Ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others.
- Ability to analyse complex information and determine an appropriate course of action
- Ability to adopt an adaptive leadership style in a politically sensitive and complex environment. Ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others
- Responsible for own professional actions and have sufficient autonomy for the delivery of the role
- Able to concentrate for long periods i.e. checking documents and analysing statistics, managing conflicting priorities
- Confident, challenging and questioning and prepared to challenge traditional views using empathy, evidence and curiosity. Can constructively challenge and effectively manage conflict to reach a positive conclusion
- Strong and effective leadership and people management skills. Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating and developing financial services teams as highly effective people manager.
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities & Attributes
Essential
- Personal values aligned to the UHN values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage
- A facilitative and inclusive approach to management.
- High level of emotional intelligence. self-awareness with the ability to keep calm in challenging situations. Able to perform confidently in pressured situations
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- A passion for making a qualitative difference to service delivery
Person Specification
Education, Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level education or equivalent level or equivalent experience working at a senior level in a complex organisation
- Professionally qualified accountant (e.g. CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, ACA)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Postgraduate management or other relevant postgraduate qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience at a senior level in a complex organisation in a healthcare setting (e.g. NHS Trust, NHS Commissioner, NHS England and Improvement)
- Significant and extensive expert relevant experience in financial management including management of budget setting, month-end and forecasting
- Ability to develop and implement policy relating to finance which impacts on the whole organisation
- A record of achievement in leading significant change, managing and improving NHS financial management departments
- Ability to interpret health service policy on finance and apply to the development and change management of services in the Trust
- Ability to apply judgement to develop solutions to highly complex problems where there are conflicting priorities and there is no precedent
- Specialist knowledge of NHS finance, gained over a number of years' experience, and attendance at structured training events, covering management accounts reporting, forecasting and the preparation of business cases
- Expert specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures including current legislation and NHS accounting policies
Skills
Essential
- Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing
- Ability to present information clearly to a range of audiences including the public
- Project management skills
- Ability to adopt an adaptive leadership style in a politically sensitive and complex environment. Ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others.
- Ability to analyse complex information and determine an appropriate course of action
- Ability to adopt an adaptive leadership style in a politically sensitive and complex environment. Ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others
- Responsible for own professional actions and have sufficient autonomy for the delivery of the role
- Able to concentrate for long periods i.e. checking documents and analysing statistics, managing conflicting priorities
- Confident, challenging and questioning and prepared to challenge traditional views using empathy, evidence and curiosity. Can constructively challenge and effectively manage conflict to reach a positive conclusion
- Strong and effective leadership and people management skills. Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating and developing financial services teams as highly effective people manager.
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities & Attributes
Essential
- Personal values aligned to the UHN values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage
- A facilitative and inclusive approach to management.
- High level of emotional intelligence. self-awareness with the ability to keep calm in challenging situations. Able to perform confidently in pressured situations
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- A passion for making a qualitative difference to service delivery
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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