Job summary
- Main area
- Financial Analysis
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term contract for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-COF10866-Y
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 200 Great Dover Street
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 p.a. inclusive of HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Financial Efficiency Analyst
Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operational Productivity and Efficiency Team at the heart of GSTT. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual with excellent analytical and finance skills to work with the Head of Financial Sustainability to support the Trust's efficiency challenge.
The successful applicant will be capable of managing multiple pieces of work simultaneously, working independently, and using their own initiative to solve problems and clear outputs. The post holder will work closely with a range of key stakeholders across the Trust, including Finance, clinicians, Operational Managers, and Performance Improvement Teams in order to deliver operational efficiency.
The Financial Efficiency Analyst plays a key role in three main areas:
- Developing financial and non-financial insights and analysis to support CIP identification, development, challenge, and impact.
- Developing and refining CIP processes and reporting that provide transparency to the organisation, ensuring this is underpinned by a strong quality assurance process.
- Engaging with the key stakeholders across the organisation, including Finance, clinical, and operational teams to support ideation of CIP and facilitate data-driven decision-making across the Trust.
This role will focus on providing support through the development of data insights and analysis tools that enable and drive change, as well as thoughtful engagement with key stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
- To develop analysis that drives actionable insights (from short term cash savings to longer term transformational schemes) to support business planning and decision making in operational improvement across the Trust.
- To evaluate and analyse highly complex and contentious issues using expertise in analytic tools, benchmarking using Model hospital, GIRFT and other sources of healthcare data & working with partners including members of the ICS.
- Use robust problem-solving skills to find and understand root causes of problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
- To develop and implement continuous review and rigour of all CIP projects across the Trust. This will include managing projects from inception to completion and developing strategies for analytical transformation.
- To work with others to use data to understand and track complex interdependencies between different initiatives and different parts of the organisation or sector.
- Responsible for supporting the evaluation of control and CIP processes; facilitating collaborative working across clinical and delivery group boundaries ensuring that the focus is on enhancing value and reducing waste.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • Educated to masters degree level or equivalent experience of working at a similar in a complex organisation.
- • Evidence of significant continuing professional development that enhances theoretical and practical knowledge.
- • Relevant accountancy or financial qualifications or equivalent experience (e.g. CIMA, ACCA)
Desirable criteria
- • Certification in project or programme management (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, APM, MSP)
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to collate, analyse and interpret complex datasets with the proven ability to explain complex analytical methods to non-analytical people
- • Ability to identify underlying problems by analysing information and finding effective solutions.
- • Experience of working with and influencing multiple stakeholders and securing their engagement in a significant and successful change initiative.
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- •The ability to ‘think outside the box’, challenge existing ways of working and cultures, and drive out innovative solutions
- •Ability to work autonomously on a day to day basis and meet with manager at regular intervals to discuss progress, complex issues or areas of concern.
- •Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to adapt style and approach for a wide range of audiences and situations
- •MS Excel (Advanced level)
Desirable criteria
- •Developing dashboards using Power BI
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sylvia Ukachukwu
- Job title
- Head of Financial Sustainability
- Email address
- [email protected]
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