Assistant Financial Controller

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an Assistant Financial Controller to join our team.

The successful candidate is expected to be a CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with significant experience who will manage the preparation of the annual accounts for the Trust and support the associated audit to achieve a clean audit opinion. You will work alongside the Financial Controller and Senior Finance leadership team in delivering robust financial systems, accounting, financial planning and reporting across the Trust.

This role is essential to the creation and ongoing success of the Centre of Excellence by creating the operational framework for supporting the standardisation financial processes, working collaboratively with colleagues in developing procedures with the use of AI technologies and ensuring high quality support to clinical and corporate services.

The post holder will lead a large sized team approx. 35 wte and play a key role in enhancing financial governance, supporting statutory reporting, and driving continuous improvement within all aspects of work. You will provide leadership for the good governance of and technical advice, relating all aspects of accounting within the Trust, with ICB and national colleagues. Working closely with the senior officers within Estates and Technology to support the delivery of strategic and transformational objectives.

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

About us

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 won HFMA's Finance Team of the Year award for 2025.

Details

• Date posted: 29 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8b
• Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year Based on full time hours
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-COR-11769
• Job locations: Tatchbury Mount, Calmore, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 2RZ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.