Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of financial management within a large organisation
- Experience
Experience of working at a senior managerial level
- Experience
Experience of staff management and leadership
- Experience
Extensive experience of using computerised financial systems and Microsoft Excel
- Experience
Experience of Business Partnering in an NHS organisation
- Personal Attributes
Team player
- Personal Attributes
Resilient and able to cope under pressure
- Personal Attributes
Proactive/takes own initiative
- Personal Attributes
Able to work independently
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to demonstrate knowledge and experience of budgetary control systems and procedures
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to interpret financial information in conjunction with workload and other data and advise accordingly
- Knowledge and Skills
A good technical working knowledge of the NHS financial regime
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to communicate effectively and clearly both verbally and in writing to financial and non-financial managers
- Knowledge and Skills
A sound appreciation of accounting techniques, technical issues and costing methodologies
- Knowledge and Skills
Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Qualifications and Training
Part Qualified CCAB or CIMA with significant finance experience
- Qualifications and Training
Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Qualifications and Training
Educated to masters degree level or equivalent level of experience
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications and Training
Fully Qualified CCAB or CIMA
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an engaging and ambitious Finance Business Partner to join the Financial Management team in a key role.
The successful candidate will work closely with key stakeholders to drive the finance agenda, support efficiency and productivity plans, and support the financial management team in day to day activities
Main duties of the job
The Corporate Finance Business Partner provides business partnering support to designated corporate directorates in all their monthly, annual and ad hoc financial performance and planning activities.
They are responsible for reviewing the month end financial position, as well as for the completion of monthly forecasts and consolidation of a divisional monthly performance report, in consultation with the corporate managers, with the support of the wider corporate finance team and the Head of Corporate Finance.
They will support their designated directorates’ annual financial planning process and undertake costings of service developments and savings plans.
The Corporate Finance Business Partner will support setting objectives and priorities for their area, while ensuring routine monthly reporting and analysis tasks are completed
The Corporate Finance Business Partner, reporting to the Head of Corporate Finance, will act as the designated financial management representative at directorate meetings.
Key relationships will need to be formed with senior management, budget holders, Project Management Office, and clinicians in order to support the management of resources. They will work closely with directorates on budget setting, budgetary management, forecasting and financial sustainability plans.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Personal Specification and Job Description for a detailed view of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role
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This advert is for Corporate Finance Business Partner, Band 7 with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cheltenham, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Finance business partner role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 (pa, pro rata if part-time). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Sep 2026.
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