East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Senior Finance Business Partner - Financial Management

The closing date is 30 September 2025

Job summary

Join Our Financial Excellence Journey!

Unlock your potential and elevate your career with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust!

Who We Are: With a robust turnover of £750 million and a dedicated team of 10,000 staff, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is a Foundation Trust known for its commitment to delivering exceptional healthcare services.

The Opportunity:We're on the lookout for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our prestigious finance division. This is your chance to shine and make a real impact on a Trust that values continuous improvement and strives for excellence.

Why Choose Us: Our finance division proudly holds the North West Finance Skills Development Towards Excellence & FFF accreditation at level 3, the highest achievable.

Qualifications and Skills: To thrive in this role, you need to be CCAB or CIMA qualified with a strong background in Financial Management. We're seeking a forward-thinking, proactive individual who can lead their team in supporting the strategic direction of the Finance Directorate and the Trust.

Your Impact: You'll have the opportunity to unleash your personal and professional skills, contributing to the continuous improvement of our finance services.

Main duties of the job

Shape Financial Excellence as our Finance Maestro!

Your Mission: Delivering Financial Brilliance As the Finance Maestro, your primary objective is to strategically guide the division in managing its resources within the approved budget.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Financial Advice: Provide expert financial advice to the division, navigating both income and expenditure landscapes to ensure optimal resource utilization.

Complex Problem Resolution: Investigate and advise on highly complex business management issues. Your insights will be crucial in enhancing financial awareness, ands improving business performance.

Financial Performance Enhancement: Strive for continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance financial performance, driving efficiency and effectiveness.

Expertise: Leverage your financial acumen and business savvy to unravel intricate financial challenges and provide strategic solutions.

Visionary Leadership: Steering the division towards financial success, efficiency, effectiveness, and a patient-centric approach.

Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to ensure a unified and holistic approach to financial management, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.

About us

Why Choose OneLSC and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals:

  • A vibrant, diverse, and inclusive healthcare community
  • Cutting-edge facilities and technology
  • Opportunities for continuous professional development
  • A culture that values and recognizes your contributions

About Us: With over 1000 beds, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals stands as a beacon of healthcare excellence. Our specialties range from the conventional to the extraordinary, as we proudly serve as a Tertiary Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in Neurosciences, Trauma, Oncology, and Renal Medicine.

Your Impact: Be part of a team that's not just meeting healthcare needs but exceeding them. Whether you're in Neurosciences, Trauma, Oncology, or Renal Medicine, your contribution matters. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is the nexus where expertise meets compassion, and we're inviting you to make a difference.

Open to All Applications: This is not just a job; it's a calling. One LSC and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust welcomes applications from individuals across various trusts, fostering diversity, and enriching our healthcare community.

Details

Date posted

17 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

435-1LSC-LT-061-25

Job locations

Preston Business Centre

Watling Street Road

Preston

PR2 8DY


Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached document for full job description and person specification

Relationship Building: Actively engage with internal stakeholders, ensuring robust connections with Divisional and Directorate leads, Transformation teams, and Financial Advisors. Drive clinical and non-clinical engagement for a harmonious work environment.

Financial Management: Take the lead in developing service line reporting, ensuring accurate allocation of income and costs. Efficiently manage budgetary control systems for income and expenditure, facilitating the achievement of targets for Directorates and the Trust.

Strategic Advisory: Provide insightful advice and recommend alternative courses of action to enhance financial performance. Ensure the financial advisory service is efficient and effective, contributing to the overall financial agenda of the Trust.

Team Leadership: Provide overall management and supervision to the Divisional Financial Management Team, fostering an efficient and timely service. Support staff development and contribute to the broader goals of the Trust.

Performance Reporting: Deliver complex reports on financial performance for the division to the Assistant Finance Director and Executive Team, ensuring timely and accurate information.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached document for full job description and person specification

Relationship Building: Actively engage with internal stakeholders, ensuring robust connections with Divisional and Directorate leads, Transformation teams, and Financial Advisors. Drive clinical and non-clinical engagement for a harmonious work environment.

Financial Management: Take the lead in developing service line reporting, ensuring accurate allocation of income and costs. Efficiently manage budgetary control systems for income and expenditure, facilitating the achievement of targets for Directorates and the Trust.

Strategic Advisory: Provide insightful advice and recommend alternative courses of action to enhance financial performance. Ensure the financial advisory service is efficient and effective, contributing to the overall financial agenda of the Trust.

Team Leadership: Provide overall management and supervision to the Divisional Financial Management Team, fostering an efficient and timely service. Support staff development and contribute to the broader goals of the Trust.

Performance Reporting: Deliver complex reports on financial performance for the division to the Assistant Finance Director and Executive Team, ensuring timely and accurate information.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Highly developed specialist/expert knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
  • Builds and develops multidisciplinary teams, and maintains constructive working relationships at all levels and disciplines
  • High personal standard of conduct and behaviour and ability to act as a role model encouraging others to value and respect staff and stakeholders and holds others to account for this
  • Extensive experience in an NHS Finance environment and/or extensive post qualification financial management experience.
  • Expert knowledge of costing and pricing methodologies
  • Extensive experience of working with others to ensure direction and policies are attainable within available resources
  • Knowledge, experience and expertise in a senior finance management role

Desirable

  • Acute Sector experience

Qualifications

Essential

  • CCAB or CIMA full member
  • Participation in the Continuing Professional Development Programme.

Desirable

  • Leadership qualification
Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Highly developed specialist/expert knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
  • Builds and develops multidisciplinary teams, and maintains constructive working relationships at all levels and disciplines
  • High personal standard of conduct and behaviour and ability to act as a role model encouraging others to value and respect staff and stakeholders and holds others to account for this
  • Extensive experience in an NHS Finance environment and/or extensive post qualification financial management experience.
  • Expert knowledge of costing and pricing methodologies
  • Extensive experience of working with others to ensure direction and policies are attainable within available resources
  • Knowledge, experience and expertise in a senior finance management role

Desirable

  • Acute Sector experience

Qualifications

Essential

  • CCAB or CIMA full member
  • Participation in the Continuing Professional Development Programme.

Desirable

  • Leadership qualification

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Preston Business Centre

Watling Street Road

Preston

PR2 8DY


Employer's website

http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Preston Business Centre

Watling Street Road

Preston

PR2 8DY


Employer's website

http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Assistant Finance Director

Jonathan Lees

jonathan.lees4@lthtr.nhs.uk

07850851806

Details

Date posted

17 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

435-1LSC-LT-061-25

Job locations

Preston Business Centre

Watling Street Road

Preston

PR2 8DY


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