Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (To cover a secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC300-1025
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- JCC Office, unit G1 The Willowford
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £48,527 - £55,532 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Specialist Finance Analyst -Non Contracts
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
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Job overview
Join our Team at the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
Following the establishment of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) on 1st April 2024 and a recent organisational restructure, we are seeking a Senior Specialist Finance Analyst – Non Contracts (NWJCC), Joint Commissioning Committee (JCC) to support our journey as a newly formed organisation.
The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with a Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.
Our mission to be The Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Commissioning, improving health and care outcomes across Wales. We commission around 220 services, from NHS 111 and ambulance services to specialised rare disease services, and mental health, operating a £1.14bn budget.
In this role, you will join a supportive, inclusive team, working with NHS Wales, Welsh Government, and UK provider organisations. We are seeking individuals who reflect our values of respect, trust, collaboration, and excellence—those who put patients and quality at the centre of everything they do.
If you're passionate about improving lives and want to be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious team, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM/SECONDMENT FOR 12 MONTHS DUE TO MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR THE SECONDMENT POSITION, YOU MUST OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM YOUR CURRENT LINE MANAGER PRIOR TO APPLYING FOR THIS POST.
The post holder will play a major contribution to budget setting, financial performance monitoring, provision of financial advice and completion of NHS final accounts and returns, involving close liaison with Finance colleagues.
Providing assistance and advice to commissioners/planners, directors and other budget holders, and working within Statutory and Organisational procedures, agreed timescales and legal requirements.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board, part of NHS Wales, serves a large population across a diverse and beautiful region, steeped in history and heritage. With nearly 13,500 staff, our health board is one of Wales’s largest employers.
Together, we are Team CTM; a workforce dedicated to offering excellent patient care and support to the 450,000 people across our three regions, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We operate three District General hospitals, several community hospitals, primary and community care facilities.
CTM’s location offers the best of South Wales, just 20 minutes from Cardiff’s vibrant city life, the natural beauty of the Brecon Beacons, and the serene coastline at Ogmore. Whether you enjoy lively urban amenities, peaceful countryside, or seaside escapes, our location makes an ideal setting for both work and personal life.
Our CTM 2030 Strategy—Our Health, Our Future—focuses on uniting our region around shared health and wellbeing goals. Our values guide us daily:
• We listen, learn, and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We work together as one team
CTM employees enjoy benefits including; a leading pension, generous leave, flexible work, career growth, and access to ongoing learning and development.
At CTM, you’ll find a welcoming, team-oriented workplace that values diversity and compassion, where you can take pride in your work and the difference it makes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- CCAB/CIMA Qualified
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development.
- Appropriate knowledge and understanding of management accountancy and NHS Finance
- Understanding of the financial issues within an acute NHS Trust.
- Computerised financial management systems.
- Understanding of the Payment by Results (PbR) funding mechanism.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Management Accounting processes. NHS Finance
Desirable criteria
- Track record in working with other health professionals.
- Experience of working with private sector healthcare providers.
- Experience of working with Foundation Trusts in England.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate complex financial information to a diverse audience.
- Ability to analyse performance through a variety of techniques, e.g. benchmarking.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Setting and achieving tight deadlines
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Capacity to think strategically and have the ability to solve complex problems.
- Time management skills.
- Ability to think laterally.
- Excellent Excel skills.
- Advanced Keyboard skills.
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated, proactive and innovative.
- Commitment to team-working.
- Logical and organised.
- Can work effectively with people of diverse skills, abilities and experience.
- Lateral thinker.
- Resilient.
- Professional approach to work.
- Flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service.
- Able to travel to meetings locally in a timely manner.
- Flexible approach to needs of the service.
- Motivated to use initiative to recognise problems and seek solutions.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are essential
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sandra Tallon
- Job title
- Senior Finance Manager / Uwch Reolwr Cyllid
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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