Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent: Secondment
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-R-RF8082
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham Town Hall
- Town
- Catford
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 per annum plus HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Finance Business Partner
Band 8b
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
This post is one of two Finance Business Partner roles in our Financial Management Team, that play a key tactical position to support Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust to respond appropriately to a dynamic and complex financial environment. The post holder will report to a Head of Divisional Finance, working as part of a wider, dynamic team in delivering an effective Financial Management service supporting operational managers and staff across our corporate divisions.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the Divisional Accountant include, but are not limited to:
Provide financial advice and support for a significant operational area of the Trust, at Corporate Department level, across both sites.
Accountable for the WD3 position for their divisions with the support from the Core Finance team
Support year-end process for the Departments including preparation of high quality working papers and liaison with External Audit.
Support the Departments to prepare annual plans, business plans, business cases, bids and tenders, but subject to a consideration of the priority of this and other work.
Lead on regular Efficiency performance tracking for the Departments and provide regular analyses and narrative reports for the Head of Divisional Finance.
Identifying, monitoring and evaluating schemes to ensure achievement of Improving Use of Resources (IuRP) targets, and contribute to and lead IuRP working groups by being the nominated finance representative
Provide narrative reports for Finance Committee on the financial performance of the Departments and attend Board level meetings and briefings as required to explain the financial position and forecasts.
Support the financial training and development of staff within the Departments including technical training and guidance on efficiencies, budget setting, business cases, corporate governance and financial management.
Lead on other finance related projects within the Departments or more widely within the Trust as required.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Financial Management
Lead on the provision of financial advice and support to the Division/Department.
Ensure that all financial opportunities are identified, quantified and communicated across the Trust.
Develop and implement improved financial controls to ensure financial targets are met within the Division.
Responsible for ensuring the provision of a divisional reporting pack to Divisional Boards and performance review meetings ensuring key financial issues are highlighted and clearly articulated.
Interpret and understand in year complex financial data so as to identify trends and areas of concern.
Work with senior managers within the Division to define their financial reporting requirements and work with other colleagues to deliver appropriate solutions to those requirements.
Provide briefing papers for senior managers on specific issues.
Lead monthly budget review meetings within the Division and follow up all actions arising from those reviews exercising judgement on relative priorities.
Develop financial plans from complex data that may not be complete and requires interpretation and high level of analytical skills to translate into meaningful information.
Undertake the financial appraisals required for business cases in line with Trust Standards and advise General Managers and Senior Managers accordingly.
Provide expert financial advice in all redesign work streams within the Division.
Assist in the production and management of service line reporting within the Division.
Design and deliver appropriate financial management training to the Division.
Cultivate a customer focused culture within the financial management team.
Undertake regular customer satisfaction surveys among the budget holders within the Division, analyse the results, propose and deliver appropriate action.
Financial Governance
Plan, implement, monitor and review the development of financial systems used for financial management ensuring they deliver value for money, efficiency and quality.
Ensure internal audit reports are responded to in a timely manner.
Promote all matters of corporate governance (including development and improvement of arrangements) throughout the Trust.
Ensure the Directorate’s policies, procedures and Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions are strictly adhered to.
Contribute to the development of systems, control processes and risk management that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements relating to contracting, commissioning, financial projects and costing processes.
Policy & Service Development
Responsible for developing and maintaining policies and procedures associated with Financial Management.
Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from the Department of Health.
Interpret national standards and guidance and prepare briefing notes as required.
Research and identify relevant best practices. Assist in the implementation of best practice.
Information Management
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about service integration and dependencies involving a wide range of stakeholders in formal settings.
Manage the archiving, storage and retrieval of financial information in line with statutory requirements and Trust policies.
Provide ongoing enhancements to current management information and reporting to enhance decision making.
Professional Leadership & Management Responsibilities
Responsible for prioritising own work and support the head of Financial Reporting, Analysis and Planning in managing that of members of staff designated to report to that post. This would include: contributing to appraisals; training and development; disciplinary matters; recruitment and selection decisions; personal and career development and workload allocations.
To provide timely expert support, advice and leadership to business groups and departments on matters and proposals relating to financial management.
Responsible for ensuring that all Trust Senior Managers with financial responsibilities are guided and supported at all times, when carrying out their financial responsibilities.
Lead on education and learning where required, which equips managerial and clinical managers with the necessary knowledge to develop and deliver appropriate service plans.
Work with the Associate Director of Finance to agree Personal Objectives, and a Personal Development Plan and keep up to date professionally through mandatory continuing professional development.
Work with the Associate Director of Finance to develop the Finance department’s effectiveness in contributing to outstanding standards and performance in the Trusts overall management.
To be aware of, comment on and actively participate in changes on policies, procedures or service developments.
To embrace and support line management and the department in making service improvements effective within the workplace.
Support new or less experienced work colleagues to adapt to the workplace.
COMMUNICATIONS & RELATIONSHIPS
The post holder needs to exercise exceptional communication skills with a wide variety of people and organisations e.g. Trust Board, Senior Clinicians, Service Managers, Cost Centre Managers, Finance, , Public Health, Commissioning organisations.
The contribution which both the contracting and performance management functions should make to the Trust’s service development and financial strength require the post holder to have exceptional communication skills and to be able to present health related and financial data in such a way that it can be understood by an audience who would have difficulty in understanding technical jargon
OTHER
This is a very senior position with responsibility for both strategic and operational functions. The post holder operates with a considerable degree of autonomy and decision making capability within the strategic direction set by the Board e.g. in contractual negotiations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB/CIMA Qualified
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working in at a senior level in a large complex organisation including working with non-finance colleagues in clinical and corporate disciplinese
- Minimum of 3 years financial management experience including budgetary control, financial planning and forecasting in the NHS or an equivalent large and complex organisation
- Performance management experience
- Staff management experience at a senior level
- Successful track record of working in high performing multi-disciplinary teams delivering challenging targets and achieving results
- Substantial experience of working autonomously and independently
- Experience in interpreting national guidance and implementing locally
- Experience of assisting an organisation in delivering cost improvement programmes
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent IT skills including the use of complex spreadsheets, databases and financial planning tools
- Able to analyse highly complex issues involving material drawn from various sources, including financial and non-financial data
- Understanding of all Trust standing orders, standing financial instructions, scheme of delegation and financial procedures
- Outstanding communication skills with ability to communicate with staff at all levels in the organisation including verbal, written and via the use of high level presentation tools
- Ability to relate and work effectively with all levels of staff (finance and non-finance) and establish a network of contacts inside and outside the Trust
- Ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions and judgements on the basis of experience and such facts as are available, working tight and often changing deadlines
- Ability to challenge colleagues and senior staff to contribute to the setting of priorities
- Ability to draft concise reports and present clear verbal briefings on complex financial and non-financial data and issues
- Knowledge of statutory accounts procedures and guidelines
- Time management skills including the ability to balance divisional and finance priorities working within a matrix structure
- Detailed understanding of healthcare processes including clinical, HR, estates, R&D and key national healthcare issues
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Focused
- No problem working under pressure
- Organised
- Relationship builder and approachable
- Able to manage conflict in an open manner
- Sociable and outgoing
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Application numbers
We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Graeme Smith
- Job title
- Divisional Head of Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 333 3000
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