Job vacancy: Head of Financial Reporting and Control, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff

Job summary

Main area: Finance
Grade: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC142-0625

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Capital Quarter 2
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £75,405 - £86,885 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/06/2025 23:59

Head of Financial Reporting and Control

Band 8c

Welcome to Public Health Wales, the national public health organisation for Wales

Our vision is Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales

To find out more visit Public Health Wales and watch this video about our Strategic Plan

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and Person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

CCAB Professionally qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience in a senior position
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable criteria

Appropriate management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive finance experience at a senior management level within the NHS or equivalent
A proven track record of dealing with highly complicated situations and the delivery of challenging corporate objectives.
Experience of negotiating and dealing with difficult situations and conflict.
Significant staff leadership, managerial and supervisory experience.
Experience of working within a highly complex and politically sensitive organisation
Evidence of successfully influencing senior clinicians and other professionals and working with a multi-disciplinary team.
Extensive knowledge and experience of the NHS financial governance framework.
Experience of operating at or near Board Level in a large complex organisation.

Desirable criteria

General management experience
Project management experience
Experience of undertaking complex business cases

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
Highly developed analytical, interpretational and comparative skills capable of dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to support rational decision making.
Extensive staff management and leadership skills.
Ability to work autonomously and equally effectively as part of a multi disciplinary team
Demonstrable ability to work on multiple complex tasks simultaneously and produce high quality work within tight deadlines and within resource constraints
IT literate with practical computer application skills covering Microsoft products including advanced level of Excel spreadsheets.
Demonstrable project management skills including work planning, organization and prioritization.
Ability to think innovatively and develop new ways of working, continuously striving to improve systems and performance
Demonstrable negotiating skills and management of conflict

Desirable criteria

Use of Oracle or other general ledger systems

Special knowledge

Essential criteria

Having experience and expertise of staff and departmental management and leadership.
Excellent knowledge and understanding of the NHS finance and non financial regime, including the policies that underpin them. Together with expert knowledge and understanding of relevant accounting and financial policies, procedures and statutory requirements.
Ability to interpret and apply International Financial Reporting Standards & Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Desirable criteria

Expert knowledge and experience of NHS strategic financial management accounting and strategic financial planning.

Public Health Wales, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals seeking flexible working arrangements.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our Trust who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.