Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 284-25-7562370-COCM
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rowchester Court, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Ln, St. Chads Tunnel,
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Commercial Finance Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a full time Deputy Commercial Finance manager.
Reporting to the Commercial Finance manager this role will support and deputise in the pro-active running and development of the finance team for a Clinical Division.
The role will ensure a professional and dynamic service is provided to the Clinical Group Management team, individual budget holders, and other relevant officers within the Trust. Providing financial management support and advice to a group of financially & operationally complex clinical specialties within the trust.
We are seeking a forward thinking, highly motivated and focused individual who is capable of contributing to and influencing the financial future of the Trust.
The Trust is based in Birmingham, and also at a number of small satellite sites throughout the city. This post is based at the main hospital site in the city centre; however the post holder may on occasions be required to attend meetings at other sites as necessary.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity in more detail, please contact Nick Howey via email at [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Commercial Finance Manager or DCFM will provide comprehensive financial management services to the Medicine & Genetics Division and assurance to the Senior Deputy Commercial Finance Manager (SDCFM) & Commercial Finance Manager (CFM) of the accuracy and completeness of the financial position each month.
Additionally, they will cover for the Senior Deputy Commercial Financial Manager [Medicine] providing Financial Management support and advice to Senior Clinical & Operational budget holders and other relevant officers within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Accountancy [CCAB / CIMA] qualification or passed finalist with demonstrable equivalent experience plus knowledge and actively working towards full qualification
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed and specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial and other aspects of legislation and finance policies and procedures, including current IFRS and Tax Legislation and its application.
- Significant experience and expertise in financial management
- Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of financial reporting and control
Analytical & Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to analyse highly complex problems relating to business case production and analysis
- Proven ability to make logical, considered judgments regarding the allocation of finances and financial risk where there is no precedent and where leading opinions may conflict.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of being responsible for the day to day management of a finance team including the recruitment, development and appraisal
- Demonstrable ability to deal with staff performance and disciplinary issues effectively
- Develops and monitors budgets for external departments/services/programmes, providing comprehensive financial advice to them as required.
- Proven ability to both set and achieves realistic and measurable objectives within timescales
Personal Skills/Abilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to advise / constrain senior budget holders to a certain course of action
- Demonstrable ability to assimilate and successfully communicate highly complex, sensitive and or conflicting information to often senior non-finance managers and other cohorts of staff.
- Proven ability to give complex financial presentations to large groups of senior non-finance managers conveying financial concepts clearly and persuasively.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of MS Office and expertise in advanced financial modeling using spreadsheets and databases.
- Ability to work flexibly in a complex financial environment independently and constructively as part of a wider team.
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
- Proven ability to concentrate frequently with an unpredictable work pattern with the ability to switch tasks at short notice. Able to concentrate for long periods when analysing complex data, statistics and preparing financial returns
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicholas Howey
- Job title
- Commercial Finance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 333 9999
- Additional information
Please contact via email in the first instance as I don't have access to a work phone number
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