Band 8b Divisional Finance Manager | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,455 - £74,896 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 September 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B7 4BN |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7399540/820-7399540-COR |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Finance Department, the post is that of a Divisional Finance Manager (DFM) within the Dental Services Directorate with key management and staff responsibilities.
The role would suit someone who thrives in a dynamic and sometimes fast-paced environment, as quick and accurate response to internal and external requests for information is often required.
The successful candidate will be a CCAB qualified accountant (or equivalent), with advanced knowledge of Excel and the ability to produce high-quality finance analysis, as well as being able to communicate complex information to senior staff, including those without a finance background.
The post will provide the successful applicant with a high profile within the organisation, working directly with the CFO and his deputies, as well as other senior managers across the trust and colleagues working across the Birmingham and Solihull ICB.
1. To ensure that the division has efficient and effective finance systems and processes in place and that the management information produced supports the division’s responsibilities for budgetary control, healthcare contracting and business planning.
2. To provide expert financial advice to the division’s managers, through the identification and recommendation of required actions, to maintain an income and expenditure balance against plan. This will include the need to ensure the division achieves its annual Cost Improvement / CRES savings target, through the identification of genuine efficiencies that result in cost reductions in pay and/or non-pay expenditure.
3. To ensure that the division has effective systems in place to identify and recover sufficient income to cover full cost of service delivery via Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Contracts and other partner arrangements.
4. To oversee the production of monthly finance reports, monitor and predict financial trends, recommending actions to address any concerns; and to present finance reports to senior divisional meetings (supported by DA / Senior DAs as necessary).
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Please see the attached Job Description and person specification for further information for the Role.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Sep 2025