# Finance Manager (PBU) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/finance-manager-pbu/df4b45b9-bba5-48bd-8694-c6b083c188b9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/finance-manager-pbu/df4b45b9-bba5-48bd-8694-c6b083c188b9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** King's College Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Finance manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum including High Cost Allowance - **Contract type:** Permanent: We welcome secondment applications. Please refer to the Secondment Pledge and state in your application if interested. - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-03T12:11:45.212Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Finance/Finance-v8271380 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8271380?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional individual to join our Pathology Business Unit as a Finance Manager. This role will work across both Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to support the delivery a new and exciting partnership to transform Pathology services across south east London. This partnership will deliver and transform Pathology service across south east London, serving a population of around 1.7million and delivering a service for both primary and secondary care providers. This programme will deliver significant transformation of pathology services for south east London, through implementation of digital pathology and creation of a new clinically led target operating model with a new hub and essential services laboratories working on each site, working through unified and standardised pathways. This will provide improvements in service performance, outcomes, efficiency and position SEL at the forefront of R&D and Innovation, while delivering material savings for Trusts and a risk and gain share royalty, dependent on delivery of critical milestones. Responsible for providing financial support to the Pathology Business Unit (PBU) Team and GSTT / KCH in all financial and commercial matters relating to the Pathology service on behalf of the Pathology Business Unit, the Finance Manager will be a business partner to teams within the PBU, acting as the first port of call for all finance queries. ### Main duties of the job Financial Management - Provide expert finance business partnering support to the PBU in all regular and ad hoc financial management and business planning activities. - Take responsibility for designing & preparing the monthly finance reports and forecasts for the PBU, including discussing these with relevant stakeholders across the department. - Support the Senior Finance Manager in the annual financial planning processes for the PBU, taking responsibility for preparing accurate financial plans based on the strategies of the PBU. - To provide professional expert guidance to team leaders across the PBU team. To be the key contact for the PBU for finance queries. Please refer to the job description for full information. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Leadership - To provide financial leadership and present complex financial management information to the senior directorate staff and the Evelina London SBU Executive Team. - To ensure that all managers are aware of and act in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs). - To recommend improvements and changes to local working practices and developing financial processes impacting across the services supported, both within and beyond the finance team. - To develop within the PBU an awareness of financial performance requirements, and the need for budgetary control, including delivering training to budget holders and managers to support the financial literacy of the organisation. Demonstrate confidence in communicating with staff at all levels and across all professional disciplines and explain complex financial information to both finance and non-finance staff in a meaningful way. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Set and negotiate priorities for themselves and others, and subsequently programme workload, to achieve results and meet deadlines - Understand and be able to apply the concepts and techniques for: budgeting and financial planning; costing and pricing; variance analysis and financial reporting; the purpose of accounting accruals and provisions ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters level qualification or equivalent experience - Evidence of regular professional and personal development training - Substantial progress towards a CCAB accountancy qualification **Desirable** - Fully CCAB Qualified ### Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - Significant experience of working in an accounting department of which considerable experience has been in a specialist financial management role **Desirable** - Forecasting & financial projections - Preparing business case & business plans ## Documents - [secondment pledge (pdf, 88.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10586569) - [denmark hill site map (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=606) - [princess royal (pruh) site map (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=607) - [agenda for change salary 26-27 (pdf, 44.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3032) - [visa and sponsorship information (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2817) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 400.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10586568) ## 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.