# MRP- Assistant Director of Operational Finance > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mrp-assistant-director-of-operational-finance/a9b5d287-067f-4590-9171-5420ba2803fd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mrp-assistant-director-of-operational-finance/a9b5d287-067f-4590-9171-5420ba2803fd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Location:** Any NHSE Office in Midlands Region, Birmingham, B2 4HQ, West Yorkshire - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Finance manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-15T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T14:10:44.607Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Birmingham/NHS_England/Administrative/Administrative-v8331696 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8331696?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview NHS England Midlands works with 40 NHS providers, five ICB clusters and national NHS and DHSC teams. It provides strategic leadership to deliver reform and transformation under the NHS 10-Year Health Plan. It also oversees regional performance across finance, quality, access, productivity, and population health. The NHS Midlands Finance team collaborates with partners to lead the development and delivery of revenue and capital plans. It oversees provider and ICB budgets, assesses financial risks, supports organisations facing challenges, shares good practice and takes regulatory action when needed. ### Main duties of the job We are seeking a qualified accountant with senior finance experience in the NHS or a related public healthcare organisation to join our Midlands Operational Finance Directorate. You will work with senior NHS England and local system leaders to oversee financial performance and improvement. You will provide clear financial advice, lead regional planning, monitor performance, and manage risks. You will also work with providers, ICBs and national finance leads to deliver NHS priorities and support action when needed. You will join an experienced and supportive regional finance team working on major NHS financial, operational, and strategic challenges. The role covers system leadership, financial recovery, planning, business cases, regulation, productivity, transformation, and improvement. The role offers broad experience and supports progression to more senior NHS finance leadership roles. You will make finance a trusted partner to clinical and operational colleagues. We are looking for someone with relevant financial experience who has led finance teams and has a strong commitment to NHS values and purpose. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents. For further details / informal visits contact: nicola.hollins@nhs.net ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - CCAB or CIMA qualified with extensive experience, full up to date membership and continuing professional development. - Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. ### Values and behaviours **Essential** - Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values - Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others - Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values. ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - Experience at Senior Finance level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry - Knowledge and experience of current NHS financial frameworks, targets and regimes – provider and commissioner. - Interact, influence and persuade key leaders within organisations to ensure delivery of the financial strategy and in year performance - Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to all aspects of financial governance such as internal audit, counter fraud and internal control and risk management systems - Significant experience of large scale short, medium and long-term planning and performance management processes - supporting both organisations which are succeeding and those which are failing. - Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid working knowledge of financial process requirements. - Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy. - Commercially aware, with significant expertise in such as areas as contract management, investment appraisal ### Skills Capabilities & Attributes **Essential** - Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner. - Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate. - Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations. - Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines. - Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement. - Ability to travel across sites where required ## Documents - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694147) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [occupational functional requirements form (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694148) ## 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.