# Finance Business Partner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/finance-business-partner/1c9dcfda-d0dd-4f8c-8912-aebfe2222618 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/finance-business-partner/1c9dcfda-d0dd-4f8c-8912-aebfe2222618.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** London Ambulance Service NHS Trust - **Location:** London Ambulance Service Headquarters - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Finance business partner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £75,328 - £86,114 per annum inclusive of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week ((A minimum of 3 days per week required in the office)) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T09:53:39.522Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/London_Ambulance_Service_NHS_Trust/Finance_Business_Partner/Finance_Business_Partner-v8208943 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8208943?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Finance Business Partner role at the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is designed to foster collaboration between the Finance Team and various Trust business areas. Reporting to the Head of Financial Analytics, the Finance Business Partner is responsible for providing financial leadership, analytical insight and business partnering support to operational and corporate areas, ensuring that financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, cost improvement, business cases and transformation decisions are underpinned by robust financial and non-financial analysis. Please note: We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications. This role requires a minimum of 3 days per week in the office ### Main duties of the job - Financial and Strategic Support: Provide expert financial advice and strategic support to business area Directors and Managers, ensuring that financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, cost improvement, business cases and transformation decisions areunderpinned by robust financial and non-financial analysis. - Collaboration and Communication: Facilitate productive working relationships and clear communication between business area managers, staff, and the Finance directorate, while representing the Finance directorate at key meetings. - Coaching and Mentoring: Coach and mentor members of the wider Finance team where appropriate, supporting them in delivering high-quality financial and non-financial reporting, and developing business planning activities. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Develop and maintain in depth knowledge of Trust business areas and their complex financial and performance drivers, and make this information accessible to other members of the Finance Team. - Provide direction and influence business area Directors and Managers to cost effectively deliver the Trust's strategic objectives. - Facilitate productive working relationships and clear communication between business area Managers and staff and the Finance directorate. - Provide expert advice to Trust business area Directors, Managers and their teams, to assist them to work within financial systems, governance structures and constraints - For a detailed job description and main responsibilities of the role, please see attached job description . ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience providing senior level support to, and influencing, business area Directors and Managers on highly complex Cost Improvement Programme projects and value adding business change initiatives. - Experience using and managing forecasting and planning tools - Experience building and maintaining complex forecasting and planning models - Experience applying Standing Financial Instructions and Schemes of Delegation (or other financial governance frameworks) in practice - Experience leading financial training and creating training content - Staff Management experience ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Knowledge of: 1)Financial planning, financial governance, management and budgeting 2)Financial and other aspects of legislation. NHS policy and finance regime including Cost Improvement Program concepts and operation - Logical thinker with sound analytical skills, able to deal with large volumes of complex data and perform highly complex analysis of financial and operational data and trends - Ability to lead, motivate, manage and develop staff in own team and organisation wide - Ability to engage with and influence senior managers across the Trust to add value to decision making - Strong numerical and verbal critical reasoning ability ### Qualifications, Accreditations, Education **Essential** - Educated to minimum of Masters degree level or equivalent - CCAB or equivalent qualified accountant with relevant post qualification experience - Undertaken a variety of additional short courses to develop specialist knowledge - Significant experience and knowledge gained through working in specialist areas within organisations and from exposure to differing business models. This will be extensive in nature and gained through the development of in depth theoretical knowledge and practical experience - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 469.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10515916) - [using artificial intelligence (ai) (pdf, 378.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2945) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.