Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 284-25-7387645-COCM
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- BC site
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Deputy Commercial Finance Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
A qualified CCAB accountant, the post holder must have good interpersonal skills and be able to liaise effectively with staff at all levels within the organisation as well as staff in other NHS and non-NHS organisations. This role involves a significant amount of autonomous working and initiative and the Post Holder will be able to work to strict deadlines and be capable of working under pressure within defined standards and policies.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Deputy Commercial Finance Manager or SDCFM will provide highly developed specialist financial management services to the Medicine & Genetics Division.
Additionally, they will cover for the Commercial Financial Manager [Medicine] providing Financial Management support and advice to Clinical & Operational budget holders, Chief Officers and other relevant officers within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate degree and Post graduate qualification or equivalent.
- CCAB/CIMA qualified
- Commitment and evidence of continuing professional and personal development.
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to advise / constrain senior budget holders to a certain course of action
- Demonstrable ability to assimilate and successfully communicate highly complex, sensitive and or conflicting information to often senior non-finance managers and other cohorts of staff.
- Proven ability to give complex financial presentations to large groups of senior non-finance managers conveying financial concepts clearly and persuasively.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of MS Office and expertise in advanced financial modeling using spreadsheets and databases.
- Proven ability to concentrate frequently with an unpredictable work pattern with the ability to switch tasks at short notice.
- Able to concentrate for long periods when analysing complex data, statistics and preparing financial returns
- Ability to work flexibly in a complex financial environment independently and constructively as part of a wider team.
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed and specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial and other aspects of legislation and NHS finance policies and procedures, including current IFRS and Tax Legislation and its application within the NHS
- Significant experience and expertise in financial management with post-qualification experience in an acute NHS financial Management environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of financial reporting and control
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to analyse highly complex problems relating to business case production and analysis
- Proven ability to make logical, considered judgments regarding the allocation of finances and financial risk where there is no precedent and where leading opinions may conflict.
- Experience of negotiating and influencing skills with a flexible and adaptable approach to problem-solving
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of being responsible for the day to day management of a finance team including the recruitment, development and appraisal
- Demonstrable ability to deal with staff performance and disciplinary issues effectively
- Develops and monitors budgets for external departments/services/programmes, providing comprehensive financial advice to them as required.
- Proven ability to both set and achieves realistic and measurable objectives within timescales
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicholas Howey
- Job title
- Commercial Finance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 333 9999
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