Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-1890-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £79,504 - £91,609 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/09/2026
Employer heading
Head of Financial Systems
NHS AfC: Band 8c
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to come and lead us on the next steps of our finance systems transformation programme as a set of four local NHS Providers who have taken the first step of having one common general ledger platform. We are now looking to build on this, and the further opportunities to streamline and automate our processes and further digitalise our approach to providing high quality financial services to our organisations.
Main duties of the job
To provide expert advice to, and leadership of, the development and implementation of the South Yorkshire Alliance (SYA) client Trust’s overarching strategy regarding Financial Ledgers and associated business systems.
To maintain and deliver an ethos of continual improvement within the Alliance, ensuring support from key managers across the Alliance as relevant.
To ensure and maintain the fitness for purpose, and timely and effective functioning of, the Financial Ledger Systems operations underpinning our organisation's business operations.
To promote the progression of innovation (Automated Intelligence and/or Business Intelligence) within financial and associated business systems, liaising with and learning from other relevant NHS Trusts.
To act as the Information Asset Owner for the relevant client Finance Departments, in relation to both ledger and costing systems, ensuring compliance with Trust IMT governance and Data Protection requirements.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB/CIMA Qualified OR Equivalent qualification and significant recent and relevant specialist Financial Systems experience, as supported by experience in Financial Accounting/Governance, Financial Services Costing and Management Accounting functions.
- Prince 2 qualification or significant successful and demonstrable project management experience.
- European Computer Driving Licence (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Postgraduate Qualification
- Six Sigma Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sufficient relevant Financial System strategic management experience, including new functionality evaluation and experience of major change management and business process improvement delivery.
- Extensive relevant Financial System management & operational planning experience.
- Extensive experience in a complex, high volume, financial transactional environment using an integrated Financial System.
- Demonstrable track record to improving financial reporting to meet the needs of diverse groups across organisational functions.
- Extensive experience of supply chain systems and processes.
- Experience of planning and delivering significant, multi-client development projects, including project initiation, design, development, implementation and PPE.
- Experience of planning, implementing and managing software interfaces to third party suppliers/systems, covering all areas of income, pay and non-pay services.
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience of: - Financial System resilience planning & maintenance, and - Finance System disaster recovery planning requirements and implementation.
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience of wider Finance business continuity planning, implementation & training.
- Demonstrable understanding of Audit, Information Governance, GPDR and Data Protection Act requirements.
- Evidence of high levels of achievement in challenging financial and general environments.
- Extensive and demonstrable staff management experience, including leading and motivating financial and non-financial teams through periods of change, whilst maintaining control of the service needs.
- Excellent and demonstrable IT skills including Advanced Excel skills.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable understanding of Government and NHS policies and strategies, and the impact of these on NHS Provider organisations.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of NHS financial transactions.
- Knowledge and experience of Integra Financial System.
- Knowledge and experience of Patient Level Costing requirements
- Knowledge and experience of NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system.
- Knowledge and experience of CMM Pharmacy System
- Knowledge and experience of Symbiotix Catering System.
- Knowledge and experience of NHS Supply Chain Catalogue.
- Knowledge and experience of Concerto System (NHS Estate system).
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of CPD
Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding and interpretation skills necessary to perform technical expert adviser role.
- Excellent process management/ process improvement vision and process implementation skills.
- Strong problem identification and evidenced problem solving skills, including the effective use of relevant supporting data analytics.
- Skills to undertake highly complex and involved analysis producing results that may have material consequences for the Organisation.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional credibility at all levels of the organisation.
- Ability to write/contribute to relevant business cases for process improvement.
- Ability to meet deadlines through effective organisational & planning skills: both self and staff.
- Strong leadership skills/ability to inspire confidence in self and others.
- Positive and proactive team leader with ability to manage and motivate self and teams through periods of both change and stability.
- Proactive desire and sustained action to support continual system and process improvement.
- Conscientious, with attention to detail.
- Thorough understanding of required Financial Systems Customer Service standards, and ongoing service management/delivery.
- Flexible and adaptable - able to manage competing and changing workloads.
- Strong and effective presentation skills.
- Skills to concentrate for short or longer periods of time depending on the nature of the issue.
- Impeccable level of integrity and discretion in relation to confidential, contentious and sensitive information/ proposals.
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Applicant requirements
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
- Laura Warwick
- Job title
- PA to the Chief Finance Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2714202
- Additional information
Please contact Laura for any further conversations or queries about the role
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