Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 11 months (Until 31/03/2027 (Secondment only for current NHS employees))
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-FIN-EC996-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 133-155 Wellington House, Waterloo Road
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 Per Annum (Including Inner London HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Finance and Planning Business Partnering Senior Officer
NHS AfC: Band 5
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.
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS. We:
· work closely with government to agree NHS funding;
· ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget;
· decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;
· support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;
· set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;
· report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;
· explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;
· look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.
· consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.
As a Senior Finance Officer, you will assist the delivery of a range of business partnering support to budget holders and service/programme delivery managers.
You will provide robust and accurate financial information that adheres to the regular financial cycle of processing and reporting including monthly forecasting and annual budgets.
Main duties of the job
The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.
Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for. Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.
Contribute to the financial delivery of the agreed portfolio ensuring it is delivered on time.
Analyse and report on data and monitor the processing of data and information.
Provide information to project lead on project and statistical information matters.
Collecting, managing and maintaining data on forecasts and outturn spend, building and maintaining models to estimate future spend on particular services, keeping records of authorization in line with Standing Financial Instructions.
Working for our organisation
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England 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 people can develop and make a difference
- 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
In 2025, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.
If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role. You can find further details about the role, a letter from the Deputy CFOs and advice on completing your application in the Document to download section.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Interested in applying and want to find out more about our team and the work we do?
Please email Paul Fry, Finance Manager on [email protected] if you would like to discuss.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to NVQ 4 level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Financial policies/guidance across the business and ability to ensure the application of accountability, transparency, integrity and the public good to all activities within own area.
- The application of best accounting and industry practice.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ensuring that accounts information is promptly and accurately recorded, referenced, reconciled, and reported in line with standing financial instructions and audit requirements.
- Managing transactions in line with standing financial instructions and that records are maintained as per best practice and audit requirements.
- Checking progress against targets, reporting as necessary and taking action to resolve exceptions
- Assisting in the production of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to inform the senior stakeholders of all relevant information
Values
Essential criteria
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Fry
- Job title
- Finance and Planning Business Partnering
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
N/A
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