Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the CSU Finance team at Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit for a Finance Analyst to play a key role in delivering business finance support services.

We want a team player, who is proactive, resilient and driven to succeed, with a real commitment to work as part of the team taking the finance function forward and contributing to the CSU and our clients success. In return we offer great opportunities to become part of a vibrant organisation where passion and commitment forms part of our vision to provide high quality care to patients and services to our customers. We have demonstrated our strength, quality and positive culture of our finance team by achieving One NHS Finance Towards Excellence Accreditation highest level.

We are passionate about the NHS, client service and continuous improvement.  We wish to add like-minded individuals to our team, in order to develop our business in a time of significant opportunity and to “make a difference”.

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit recognises the value of serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.

Please note for any NHS candidates in substantive roles applying for fixed terms contract positions (both for internal and external applicants), these have to be agreed on a secondment basis. Prior to applying for the position, you must discuss with your current Line Manager and HOS to ask permission to be released on a secondment basis, should you be successful in your application

Main duties of the job

The Finance Analyst will be pivotal in ensuring that the CSU meets its financial targets in terms of both income and margin generation. The role will be responsible for ensuring the effective use of financial resources by working with the Senior Business Partner, service leads and budget holders in order to manage financial risk.

The post holder will also be expected to provide financial advice and support to non-finance managers, discuss complex, contentious and / or sensitive issues with budget holders, managers and other senior officers within the CSU together with other stakeholders as appropriate. 

The post holder should be an experienced Accountant who has brilliant management skills, who is comfortable compiling reports and holding meetings with different leaders to correlate data and support improvements and efficiencies.

ML is committed to our process of redeployment at risk members  of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Working for our organisation

The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It’s a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is part of the NHS family, both ‘of’ and ‘for’ the NHS and are pivotal in supporting major improvements in health and wellbeing for organisations across our partner Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and their populations. We are integral to the healthcare systems we work in partnership with, and our philosophy is to face every new challenge and opportunity together with our partners.

Our mission is to be a great place to work, to be great people to work with, striving to be better tomorrow than we are today.

Offering a full range of professional services to all parts of the NHS, other public bodies and the private sectors across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.

The CSU Finance team is a highly motivated team who perform at the highest standard to achieve its financial objectives.

In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.

Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.