Assistant Financial Controller

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Proactively manage and support the principal financial accountants in achieving their role responsibilities.

The postholder will be CCAB/CIMA qualified with evidence of continuing professional development that demonstrates the management for the delivery of annual accounts prepared on an IFRS basis. They must have the ability to collaborate with finance and non finance colleagues alike, lead with compassion whilst adding value to the achievements of the team.

Annual Accounts and Report - Manage the production of annual accounts, statutory returns alongside the financial controller.

Reporting - Responsible for timely and accurate internal and external financial reporting for the Trust Board committees, internal governance reporting requirements, ICB and NHSE

Financial Strategy - Implement the financial strategy aligned with Trust objectives.

Financial Controls - Develop and enhance financial controls, reporting compliance and providing assurances for internal and external stakeholders

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

The finance department recently won HFMA's Finance Team of the Year award for 2025.