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- Gradd
- ESM1
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- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
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- 990-EOE-19447-I
- Cyflogwr
- NHS England
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- NHS
- Gwefan
- Cambridge
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- Fulbourn
- Cyflog
- £100,000 per annum
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- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 12/02/2026 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Director of Operational Finance
ESM1
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, experienced and motivated Director of Operational Finance to join our dynamic team in the East of England. This role is both a leadership role within the regional team and across the region supporting the delivery of statutory duties and financial performance. The post holder will report directly to the NHS Regional Director of Finance and deputise for them as required along with leading the rest of the regional finance directorate.
The scope of the role encompasses support for both our systems and our internal regional financial responsibilities. Holding systems to account for delivering effective operational and medium-term financial plans which are integrated with service recovery priorities, workforce, productivity and operational capacity. The role will also support the activities of the regional team and support the finance directorate through the current changes to our operating model. Both our systems and the region need to deliver agreed financial performance trajectories and strengthen financial sustainability of delivering services within allocated resources across the NHS.
The post-holder will play a pivotal role in steering and supporting ICS delivery within available resources, working in conjunction with finance leads from across the region, within the regional team and nationally to aligning expectations and support delivery.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
- Ensure the provision of expert, evidence based financial and business advice to regional and national colleagues.
- Lead financial planning, assurance and oversight, working closely with regional colleagues to help systems/organisations deliver their financial targets and service plans, through the provision of oversight, advice and support.
- Support the delivery of regional financial targets ensuring that systems/organisations have effective plans, supported by effective cost improvement programmes.
- Lead financial performance management and reporting including revenue, capital and cash, within national frameworks and policies.
- Lead value for money and efficiency programmes working closely with national and regional colleagues to ensure use of benchmarking, learning and best practice.
- Lead the regional Senior Finance Team, liaising with national and regional colleagues - advising on strategy, planning and performance, provision of expert, evidence based financial and business advice to the regional team ensuring that national reporting and accounting/governance requirements are delivered.
- Support and deputise for the Regional Finance Director producing, implementing and articulating a clear financial strategy for the region, mandate requirements and national financial frameworks, resource assumptions and investment priorities.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- Oversee and assure the financial planning and redesign of services within the locality, particularly large scale and complex service reconfigurations, ensuring business cases are subject to rigorous financial appraisal, are financially viable and provide value for money.
- Ensure that appropriate advice is provided to systems/organisations on national approaches to financial planning and performance for both capital and revenue.
- Ensure rigorous appraisal of system/organisation financial plans to ensure viable and that financial risks have been soundly evaluated and mitigated.
- Ensure robust systems are in place to monitor financial performance to maintain a clear and up-to-date view of the financial position.
- Ensure that systems, processes and information flows provide effective early warnings of potential failures in service quality, financial management, partnerships and performance. Take a risk-based approach, in line with national frameworks to intervene to anticipate and avoid such failures.
- Provide robust forecasts, risk predictions and mitigations.
- Support national teams on planning, reviewing and agreeing cash requirements with systems/organisations within national policy.
- Play a key role with regional colleagues and work with them to tackle performance risks and issues, ensuring that support to improvement is provided early.
- Lead financial intervention processes in the event of material concerns about financial performance and financial risk within national frameworks.
- Ensure all national reporting requirements are complied with to support month end and year end processes.
- Take the regional lead on finance functions e.g. financial intervention – oversight and support, financial efficiency and resilience programmes.
- Promote the highest standards of finance professionalism within the region including the development of new initiatives
The successful candidate will bring a blend of operational delivery experience within senior Finance roles, together with strong recent experience and insight in the development of the overall NHS national policy and financial framework within which the region and systems operate. They will demonstrate inclusive and resilient leadership and champion diversity in all areas of their work.
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- CCAB or CIMA Qualified Accountant
Experience and Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Extensive experience leading significant national, regional or cross-government programmes
- Experience in operating in fast-paced, complex, highly political environments
- An in-depth understanding of the NHS system architecture and key levers for change
- Experience in providing high-quality programme management and briefing outputs to demanding customers
Meini prawf dymunol
- Demonstrable experience of deputising for Regional Director of Finance in a similar role
Skills and attributes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate and lead multi-disciplinary teams
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to build credibility and work collaboratively with leaders in NHS England to ensure resources are aligned behind strategic and operational delivery of objectives
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- • Values diversity and difference, operate with integrity and openness
Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Zoe Pietrzak
- Teitl y swydd
- Regional Director of Finance
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07788547379
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
FYI Zoe will be on leave from 19 Jan- 3 Feb, in the meantime please contact [email protected] for more information or to schedule an informal call with Zoe upon her return.
We plan to hold interviews w/c 2 March 2026.
Rhestr swyddi gyda NHS England yn Gwasanaethau Gweinyddol neu bob sector