Job vacancy: Wessex Secure Date Environment Finance Manager, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton

Job summary

Main area

Finance

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week

Job ref

188-THQ070226

Employer: University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Southampton General Hospital
Town: Southampton
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 pa or pa pro rata
Closing: 27/02/2026 23:59
Interview date: 23/03/2026

Wessex Secure Date Environment Finance Manager

Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

UHS has a strategic partnership with the University of Southampton, and the Wessex SDE is run in partnership with UoS, providing safe data access across Wessex.

• Lead the development of accurate, transparent, and fit‑for‑purpose costing models for new and existing projects.
• Provide clear financial insight, challenge, and guidance to senior leaders and project teams.
• Build strong working relationships across operational, technical and project functions to ensure financial inputs, assumptions, and risks are well understood and agreed.
• Support effective stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment of scope, expectations, and delivery timelines.
• Maintain high‑quality financial reporting, including forecasts, variance analysis, and scenario modelling.
• Ensure all financial processes comply with organisational policies, financial controls, and governance requirements.
• Prepare financial papers for approval routes and contribute to business cases and investment submissions.
• Support continuous improvement of financial processes, templates, and decision‑support tools.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance within the finance team where required.

About You

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information clearly to non‑finance colleagues.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse teams.
• Proven experience working in a large, complex organisation, ideally with project‑based or R&D‑related activities.
• A proactive and organised approach, able to work effectively to tight deadlines and manage conflicting priorities.
• Strong analytical capability, including the ability to develop accurate costing models and undertake scenario analysis.
• Confident understanding of financial governance and approval routes.
• A collaborative mindset with a focus on problem‑solving and adding value.
• Professional accountancy qualification, CCAB.

Person specification

Qualifications / training required

Essential criteria

Professional qualification (CCAB) in accountancy (CIMA, ACA, CIPFA, ACCA) or exceptional finalist with strong first degree and professional examination results.
Current / recent experience in a finance environment

Desirable criteria

Current / recent knowledge and understanding of the NHS financial environment

Previous or relevant experience necessary

Essential criteria

Knowledge of designing and working with spreadsheets.
Detailed understanding of budgetary control processes and budget setting / financial planning.
Broad understanding of financial accounting and control issues.
Understanding of financial information systems and with the ability to extract relevant information.
Advanced analytical skills with the ability to clearly communicate the results of such analysis.
Excellent communicator both verbally and in writing.
Experience of Financial project management/Financial appraisal and forecasting.

Desirable criteria

Ability to make use of systems (e.g., Excel, Word) to prepare and present accurate, clear information and reports.
Experience of working within an NHS management accounts team.
Previous experience of working with Oracle Finance systems.
Record of improving processes and reporting in previous roles.

Values and behaviours

Essential criteria

Patients First
Always Improving
Working Together

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

For more information about our Trust

https://careers.uhs.nhs.uk

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