# Financial Controller > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/financial-controller/ad84447b-1873-47ba-954e-324984e584af - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/financial-controller/ad84447b-1873-47ba-954e-324984e584af.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Accountant - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £103,102 - £117,560 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (from start date) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T13:10:42.398Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8343370 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8343370?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Financial Services team at Imperial are a major component of the overall Finance function. We cover financial and capital accounting, financial governance, transactional services, finance systems and payroll. We also play important roles in the relationships with key outsourced functions including internal audit, counter fraud and procurement. As such, our role impacts almost everyone in the Trust – everyone from board committees and exec leaders to budget managers, pharmacists and stock controllers rely on our services in some way, and of course through the Payroll team we support almost every employee in the Trust. We also run some patient-facing services too. We act as business partners for the Trust’s capital programme and work across the Finance team to make sure that the balance sheet and cash are at the heart of the financial planning process. We are presently working in partnership with the six other North West London trusts on the implementation of a new ERP system and Finance Shared Service Centre, going live across 2027. This will represent a step change in the way we work, and the service we are able to provide to the Trust. The exact divisions of responsibilities will be managed once people are in post, but you can expect excellent visibility and involvement over the whole range of the team’s responsibilities. ### Main duties of the job - The Financial Controller is a key leadership role in the Finance Directorate, part of the Finance Senior Leadership Team and a professional expert on finance, with responsibility for overseeing and managing the financial transactions, services and core finance systems for the Trust. - The Financial Controller provides highly complex, sensitive and contentious financial information to staff at all levels from financial and non-financial backgrounds, and provide expertise in complex technical areas including cash-flow forecasting, capital accounting, VAT, and the application of financial reporting standards. - The Financial Controller responsibilities are distributed across the two posts as outlined below. However, each postholder is expected to perform all functions within the JD. Both postholders will work collaboratively to share knowledge, maintain mutual accountability, model effective teamwork, and provide support to the Director of Financial Services and other senior finance colleagues as required. - They also line manage the Financial Services team and oversee delivery of the team’s responsibilities and projects. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Providing high quality accounting services and expert financial advice and support to senior financial staff - Experience of leading and managing the annual external audit cycle - Working effectively and efficiently at senior level in a fast-changing and complex environment - Leading and managing high performing teams, and developing staff competences and behaviours, including managing difficult conversations - Experience of developing policies and practices to guide financial management, and of delivering training to service users **Desirable** - Significant experience of working within NHS finance - Experience of managing outsourced financial services - Experience of providing financial support to business cases and capital projects - Significant experience of managing complex technical accounting queries, including complex audit queries ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Expert knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial reporting standards, and financial & other aspects of relevant legislation, gained through full membership of Professional Accountancy Qualifications (CCAB) or equivalent - Further relevant specialist CPD in technical skills and NHS financial management (including the NHS financial regime) **Desirable** - Further training in formal project management approaches - Further training in management and leadership - Further training in IT systems, data or reporting ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 464.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10667811) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional request form (doc, 917.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10667812) ## 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.