Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 282-OD1895
- Employer
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Royal Marsden Chelsea
- Town
- Chelsea
- Salary
- £66,274 - £73,496 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/10/2026
Employer heading
Finance Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Join one of the world's leading cancer centres and play a pivotal role in supporting the financial sustainability of an organisation renowned for clinical excellence, innovation and research. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust offers a unique opportunity for an ambitious and qualified finance professional to contribute to an organisation that is delivering world-class cancer care whilst shaping the future of healthcare. Working across a complex and dynamic environment, you will partner with senior operational and clinical leaders to support strategic decision-making and drive organisational performance.
As Finance Manager, you will provide high-level financial advice, analysis and support to Directors and senior managers, helping them monitor performance, develop robust forecasts and deliver financial targets. You will lead on financial planning, budgeting and business case development, using both financial and operational information to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and value for money. This role offers significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to influence service development across a specialist NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
- To provide high-level financial advice to the division/directorates.
- The focus of this role will be on providing financial information and support to Directors, to assist them in monitoring the financial performance of their Division/Directorate. This should include using financial and other information to make recommendations for improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the department and of the Trust. Although this role is responsible for covering a designated Divisions/Directorates the Finance Manager will also work across the Trust to deliver specific objectives.
- We are seeking a CCAB-qualified accountant, or an individual who can demonstrate substantial progress towards qualification, with strong analytical skills and experience of working in a complex financial environment. You will be an excellent communicator, capable of building credible relationships with clinicians, operational managers and executives alike. In return, we offer the opportunity to work within an Outstanding organisation, alongside highly skilled colleagues, where your expertise will directly support the delivery of exceptional patient care, research and innovation.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information, please refer to the detailed Job Description & Person Specification:
Financial Monitoring and Control
• Along with the management accountant, to manage and oversee the provision of financial management information, analysis and advice.
• To ensure the budgets for the Divisions/Directorates reflect the plans agreed by Management Executive and the Trust Board.
• To provide financial support to the Directors in respect of the monthly performance reviews.
Finance Department
• To ensure the appropriate arrangements for financial control and the safeguarding of Trust Assets are in place within the Division.
• To ensure best practice with regard to local working practices is shared and implement department wide policy improvements.
• To ensure non-finance staff receive adequate training to fulfil their duties as budget holders.
Business Planning and Budgeting
• To assist the Director in the preparation a 3–5-year financial plan.
• To help identify and quantify cost pressures and service developments and where necessary, to assess the impact of changes in the delivery of clinical services.
• To ensure that, where appropriate, ward and departmental budgets reflect agreed workforce plans, commissioned NHS activity and planned Private Patient activity
Systems Development
• To contribute to the further development of budgeting systems and the application of appropriate budgeting and management accounting techniques.
• To contribute to improving the effectiveness of the accounting systems, working closely with the Financial Reporting team.
Personal and Managerial
• To help develop and maintain professional standards within the Finance Department and to actively seek and encourage feedback from users of financial services to enable continuous improvement plans to be implemented.
• To recruit, manage, motivate and train the junior staff who provide financial advice to budget holders and managers.
Other
• To take responsibility for corporate financial issues and Trust wide projects as required.
• To act as finance representative on Trust wide committees and working parties as required.
• Any other duties, commensurate with the grade and nature of this post.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Have completed a CCAB recognised accountancy qualification or in exceptional circumstances demonstrating significant progress towards the completion of such a qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial relevant experience
Skills, abilities and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate sound analytical skills with the ability to deal effectively with large quantities of complex data, both financial and non-financial.
- Able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of NHS finance and key performance targets for the Trust.
- Knowledge of and competence in the use of spreadsheets
- Understanding of the function of the spreadsheet and ability to develop models is essential. Advanced spreadsheet skills to macro level will cover this.
- Ability to use word packages to produce letters and reports
- Understand and be able to apply the concepts and techniques for budgeting, financial planning, costing, pricing and financial reporting
- Understand and be able to explain or investigate income and expenditure accounts, balance sheet and cash flow statements
Desirable criteria
- Able to make effective contributions to the decision-making process within the Division/Directorate and more widely for the Trust.
- Able to provide budget holders and other Senior Managers with management reports and analysis in a manner which aids effective control and decision making.
- Able to contribute to the strategic direction of the Trust and to approach issues with a broad and commercial view.
Personal and Managerial
Essential criteria
- Able to plan and co-ordinate the work of their team and of other departments inside and outside of Finance to meet deadlines.
- Experience of negotiating and agreeing deadlines and standards and quality of work with other departments
- Able to work on a number of projects simultaneously to meet agreed deadlines, concentrating and focusing on a range of issues in particular during the monthly reporting and business planning cycle whilst coordinating the workload of others.
- Previous staff management experience and/or able to demonstrate an understanding of good personnel practice and its application.
- Excellent verbal and written and communication and presentation skills
- Able to establish credibility and liaise effectively with senior managerial and clinical staff.
- Confident and assertive, but diplomatic
Desirable criteria
- Able to adapt readily and respond constructively to change and to work effectively in a variety of situations with groups or individuals.
- Able to receive, to understand and to convey information and ideas effectively, both orally and in writing, to a range of different audiences
- Able to persuade others at all levels, including Executive Directors and clinicians, of a particular course of action or viewpoint, whilst respecting their point of view.
- Contributes to effective teamworking within the Finance department and other senior teams in the Trust
- Regularly reviews policies and procedures and recommends and/or implements improvements to them.
- Contributes to the development of quality management systems.
- Acts as representative of the department in external meetings.
- Promotes the Finance Department within the organisation.
- Able to operate independently
- Able to manage and motivate junior members of staff
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work on both sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brendon David
- Job title
- FBP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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