Senior Finance Officer

Job summary

Please note this role is restricted to internal CSU colleagues only.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference supporting a range of customers and stakeholders? Are you a driven, customer-focused individual?

We are looking for a keen individual to join our dynamic and innovative Finance Consultancy team. The team of approx. 30 staff provides a range of financial support, often on varying projects and workstreams across the health sector. Our clients include NHS Integrated Care Boards, NHS Providers, NHSE, Primary Care, and others, as well as CSU staff based across England. This is a key role in ensuring that we are able to provide first class services to our customers and stakeholders as well as developing and supporting our award-winning team.

We are a flexible employer and offer a range of working arrangements and patterns as well as working in a hybrid manner. This means that the successful candidate will be asked to work from a mixture of locations including their own home, NECS offices and customer locations.

Main duties of the job

This role involves:

Having an interest in developing, understanding and improving financial and accounting procedures, contracting and contract monitoring processes

Being flexible as we will need you to work on a range of different projects and types of work

Having the ability and confidence to work autonomously and with a range of customers and stakeholder whilst also being a strong team player.

Supporting transformational change, working with commissioners, providers, Provider Collaboratives, and health care systems to support their needs and improve patient care.

Ideally you will have had experience working in an NHS finance role and be keen to learn and develop new skills.

About us

At NECS we are very proud to be part of the NHS England family. We are one of the very few truly customer-owned entities within the NHS. We have grown from our roots in the North East to be an NHS business with customers the length and breadth of the UK and further abroad. Our customer base has diversified significantly over this period, and we are now very pleased to be serving NHS providers as well as commissioners, NHSE regions, Local Authorities, General Practices and national NHSE Directorates.

NECS combines specialist skills and expertise with scale and resilience to achieve required results. We combine core NHS values with a sharp focus on customer care and a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement. We very much see ourselves as a key partner in the future success of the healthcare system and we take our share of the responsibility for shaping effective delivery.

Our people are the heart of our organisation. We strive to ensure they feel trusted, valued and empowered. Were passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that as well as an excellent benefits package including generous holidays and pension plus free car parking and access to NHS discounts.