Wessex Secure Data Environment Finance Manager
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
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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: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO16 6YD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9188-26-0117 |
Summary
UHS has a strategic partnership with the University of Southampton, and the Wessex SDE is run in partnership with UoS, providing safe data access across Wessex. Lead the development of accurate, transparent, and fitforpurpose costing models for new and existing projects. Provide clear financial insight, challenge, and guidance to senior leaders and project teams. Build strong working relationships across operational, technical and project functions to ensure financial inputs, assumptions, and risks are well understood and agreed. Support effective stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment of scope, expectations, and delivery timelines. Maintain highquality financial reporting, including forecasts, variance analysis, and scenario modelling. Ensure all financial processes comply with organisational policies, financial controls, and governance requirements. Prepare financial papers for approval routes and contribute to business cases and investment submissions. Support continuous improvement of financial processes, templates, and decisionsupport tools. Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance within the finance team where required. About You Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information clearly to nonfinance colleagues. Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse teams. Proven experience working in a large, complex organisation, ideally with projectbased or R&Drelated activities. A proactive and organised approach, able to work effectively to tight deadlines and manage conflicting priorities. Strong analytical capability, including the ability to develop accurate costing models and undertake scenario analysis. Confident understanding of financial governance and approval routes. A collaborative mindset with a focus on problemsolving and adding value. Professional accountancy qualification, CCAB.