Job vacancy: Finance Manager, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Job summary

Main area: Finance
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 287-CEF-268-25

Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/09/2025 23:59

Finance Manager

Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities - for further details, please refer to the attached job description

To provide financial information and advice to the Divisional General Manager, Clinical Directors and other managers within the relevant Directorates. To meet regularly with these managers to ensure that any potential financial problems are identified early enough for corrective action to be effective.

To have overall responsibility for all aspects of budgetary management within the relevant directorates, including monitoring of performance and providing advice on corrective action as necessary. To take a lead role in the Division in annual budget setting process.

To undertake lead responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of recharging mechanisms to improve budgetary control (e.g. Radiology). To take responsibility for the authorization of specific expenditure within the Directorates (e.g. Works recharges) and the authorization for the advertisement of vacant posts to ensure that funding is available.

To actively participate in and contribute to the formulation and implementation of the Divisional Business Plans in accordance with the Trust’s strategic aims and objectives. To provide support and advice on financial and non-financial aspects of the Business Plans.

To provide the Head of Management Accounts with the information necessary to enable corporate reporting. This will include explanation of significant variance movements for inclusion in the Trust Board Report.

To assist Clinical Directors and Service Managers in identifying and achieving cost improvement and income generation targets, undertaking reviews of all existing practices with the aim of improving efficiency.

To participate in the development of new costing and budgeting methodologies to provide information for both managerial and commercial purposes.

To review, for the relevant Directorates, Aintree’s costs relative to national norms and other provider units and establishing verification of significant variations.

To monitor the service provided by the relevant Directorates to other Trusts in accordance with the Service Level Agreements. To discuss and renegotiate these SLA’s as necessary.

To take financial responsibility in the competitive tendering process to ensure that best value is achieved. To prepare financial option appraisal reports for presentation to the Trust board incorporating recommendations.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

CCAB Qualified Accountant
Evidence of commitment to continued professional development
Current employee of a LAASP organisation

Desirable criteria

Educated to degree level

Experience

Essential criteria

Post-qualification experience
Evidence of innovative approach in analysing and drawing conclusions from complex financial and performance data
Experience of staff management/development
Evidence of track record of achievement

Desirable criteria

NHS financial management experience
Experience of working with senior managers and clinicians

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Demonstrate In depth knowledge of: - Financial planning - Budgetary strategy & control - NHS Trust financial regime - Sound knowledge of NHS business case process

Skills

Essential criteria

Highly numerate
Evidence of involvement in dealing with complex change issues
Ability to Lead & Motivate Staff
Open and developmental leadership style
Demonstrate commitment to staff development.
Decisive and able to use own Judgement
Knowledge and understanding of HR policies.
Strategic and innovative thinker
Excellent written and verbal communication skills via a variety of media and forums, with a wide range of people from all levels both from within and outside of the Trust
Well developed influencing and negotiation skills
Proficient in use of current business software (e.g. Microsoft Office) and able to apply this to the development of complex financial models
Strong analytical and reasoning skills supported by attention to detail

Desirable criteria

Understanding of structures of NHS
Knowledge of Acute Hospital Environment

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.