Senior Finance Manager
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD3 3EB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9372-25-0767 |
Summary
Financial Planning and Business Planning Lead the co-ordination of the annual Financial Planning and Budget Setting process, ensuring robust assumptions, high-quality documentation, and a comprehensive audit trail. Support completion of the annual Financial Planning Return for NHSE, ensuring compliance with national guidance. Responsible for the accurate financial reporting and provide effective business partnering for CHS, ensuring the consolidated position is clearly understood and well governed. Contribute to the development of long-term financial models covering Income & Expenditure, balance sheet, capital, cash flow, and risk metrics. Provide clear guidance and support to Divisional Finance teams to ensure consistency and quality in planning processes. Represent the Trust at system-level planning groups, contributing to planning discussions, financial alignment, and joint decision-making. Financial Reporting & Control Lead the co-ordination and production of the monthly Provider Finance Return (PFR) and other statutory submissions, ensuring accuracy and alignment with Board reporting. Deliver robust financial control processes, ensuring high-quality monthly and quarterly reporting, accurate forecasts, and early identification of financial risks. Manage Trust Reserves, ensuring transparency, effective governance, and a clear understanding of commitments and risks. Lead the business planning process for Technical Accounting and Reserves. Investigate and interpret highly complex financial issues involving multiple targets and conflicting priorities, providing clear recommendations to senior stakeholders. Ensure financial controls and processes comply with Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, and best practice. Contribute to Internal and External Audit activity, supporting financial control reviews, facilitating audit access, providing information, and implementing improvements arising from audit recommendations. Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) Management Lead the reconciliation and weekly monitoring of the Trusts CIP tracker, ensuring accuracy, timely updates, and full understanding of recurrent and non-recurrent impacts. Work in close partnership with the PMO to validate financial benefits, identify risks and mitigations, and support scheme development. Provide expert financial advice to operational and clinical leaders on efficiency opportunities and CIP development. Support the production of CIP reports for Finance & Performance Committee, Executive Board, and external regulators. Systems, Reporting & Automation Work closely with the Systems Accountant to ensure financial systems are configured correctly, produce reliable outputs, and support Trust financial processes. Provide guidance and subject-matter expertise on financial reporting structures, ledger integrity, and coding. Lead initiatives to automate routine financial reporting processes, reducing manual effort, increasing accuracy, and improving timeliness. Support the development or enhancement of dashboards to support Board, Divisional and CIP reporting. Ensure system changes or upgrades are effectively embedded into business processes. Business Partnering & Leadership Provide high-quality financial advice to senior budget holders and Divisional leadership teams, enabling informed decision-making and improved financial performance. Develop strong relationships with stakeholders across the Trust, promoting shared accountability for financial management. Provide training and education to non-finance managers to improve financial literacy and support improved financial decision-making. Deputise for the Assistant Director of Finance as required, representing the finance function at meetings and contributing to organisational decision-making. Maintain awareness of regional and national policies, evaluating their impact on the Trust and advising senior leaders accordingly. Support a culture of continuous improvement within the Finance Directorate and contribute to wider organisational transformation initiatives. Support ad-hoc projects and carry out other duties as required.