# Head of Commercial Finance

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- **Town:** Stanmore
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £85,641 - £97,746 Per Annum including HCAS
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed-Term Contract for 12 months)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-16T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29T10:40:52.433Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Stanmore/Royal_National_Orthopaedic_Hospital_NHS_Trust/Private_Care/Private_Care-v8117853
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8117853?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To be responsible, as a member of the Divisional Leadership Team for the leadership, strategic direction, performance and function of Private Care finance to ensure that it achieves its goals and objectives. To transform Private Care’s financial function into a high performing department which meets the needs of the business and its key stakeholders.

Please note that this role requires full-time, on-site presence

### Main duties of the job

Work alongside the Managing Director and senior leadership team to develop the commercial strategy of the Private Care business

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Financial

- Provide robust commercial and financial support to the Division, leading on the development of annual budgets, plans and cashflow forecasts.
- Monitor and report on the performance of the Division against the financial plan on a monthly basis, ensuring that transactions and expenditure are properly allocated, and the budget remains reflective of the operational function of the business.
- Work closely with Private Care’s Finance Business Partner to ensure that Private Care’s trading accounts are reflective of performance and to make them aware of any variances to plan in a timely manner.
- Create a financial dashboard for Private Care which shows a snapshot of the business at a given point in time, enabling the Divisional Leadership team to make agile strategic decisions.
- Use complex financial and commercial analysis to advise the Divisional Leadership team on the strategic direction of Private Care.
- Proactively monitor the market to ensure that our pricing strategy delivers maximum value for the business, whilst simultaneously ensuring that we remain competitively priced.
- Develop self-pay package prices for simple procedures and a mechanism to ensure that price estimates for more complex procedures are highly accurate.

please see JD for full listing

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Minimum of five years’ postqualification experience in a senior finance role
- Knowledge of and previous experience of working in a private healthcare environment
- in a senior level finance role
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the application of healthcare finance to impact clinical and financial results
- High levels of competence in hospital accounting, analysis, forecasting, internal control and compliance

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to degree level
- Fully qualified CCAB accountant
- Evidence of and commitment to continuous professional development

**Desirable**

- Project management qualification

### Communications and Relationships

**Essential**

- Excellent communication skills and use of written and spoken English
- Confident and professional manner
- Polite, friendly and a presentable appearance
- Professional use of email as a communication channel
- Ability to build meaningful relationships and influence key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 504.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10413715)
- [letter from chief executive (pdf, 1018.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2864)

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