Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Able to travel across Wales and other areas of the UK where necessary in a timely manner
- Other
Flexible approach to working, based on the needs of the service
- Experience
Extensive experience in a complex organisation, including multidisciplinary environments and partnership working
- Experience
Experience of working with senior managers, operational staff and senior clinical leads
- Experience
Experience in negotiating complex contractual agreements
- Experience
Experience in reviewing complex business cases
- Experience
Experience in reviewing a wide range of publications and providing recommendations to senior leaders
- Experience
Experience, understanding and demonstrable use of benchmarking and other service intelligence
- Experience
Experience of strategic level financial planning and management, including the development of annual, medium and long term strategies
- Experience
Experience in delivering within challenging financial situations, including financial turnaround
- Experience
Commercially astute, able to manage the day-to-day business challenges while not losing sight of long-term strategic goals and health board objectives
- Experience
Significant experience of financial analysis, risk management and use of benchmarking intelligence to inform decision-making
- Experience
Experience of engaging effectively in dialogue, debate and negotiation with individuals at all levels in politically sensitive environments
- Experience
Experience in communicating key findings and conclusions to clinical and non-clinical senior team members
- Qualifications and Knowledge
CCAB or CIMA Qualified Accountant – professional accountancy qualification plus further specialist knowledge training and experience
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Membership of a professional Chartered Accounting institution plus Postgraduate Master’s level qualification in management or finance
- Qualifications and Knowledge
In-depth professional specialist knowledge of a number of disciplines acquired over a significant period, including workforce and service planning
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Knowledge and understanding of improvement methodologies used across organisations
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Probes and accesses networks for information to improve knowledge and understanding. Keeps self-informed through local and national networks
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other
Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
- Experience
Experience in communicating outputs from complex costing system
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Understanding of developing best practice in the NHS within the UK nations; and of management and leadership best practice developments
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and values-driven finance professional to join Hywel Dda University Health Board as Senior Commissioning, Business Intelligence and Value Finance Business Partner. This is a significant leadership opportunity within a Health Board focused on delivering safe, sustainable and accessible services for the communities of West Wales.
Working across a rural and geographically dispersed population brings distinctive challenges, but also creates real scope for innovation. The Health Board is continuing to develop its approach to value-based healthcare, quality improvement, organisational development, business intelligence and digital services, ensuring that finance insight plays a central role in supporting better outcomes and sustainable services.
This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of strategic decision-making, supporting senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders to identify opportunities, understand financial impact and develop practical solutions. It will suit a qualified finance professional who is comfortable working across organisational boundaries, influencing at a senior level and translating complex information into clear, actionable insight.
This post can also be considered as a secondment for 12 months from your start date. If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.
Main duties of the job
- Leading the identification, development and communication of financial, efficiency and value opportunities, ensuring alignment with value-based healthcare programmes and effective engagement with Clinical Care Groups.
- Providing leadership and direction for the Business Intelligence and Value, Costing and Commissioning finance teams, working closely with Finance Business Partners to support delivery of Health Board objectives.
- Lead role within the commissioning agenda, focused on Long-Term Agreements and Service Level Agreements with other Health Boards and healthcare providers, assessing in-year performance and supporting effective financial negotiations to secure value and financial sustainability.
- Working closely with the Head of Strategic Commissioning and other senior colleagues to support the development of regional working and collaborative service arrangements.
- Continuing to develop and refine the Health Board’s costing methodology.
- Providing oversight and expert input into financial impact reviews.
- Developing the Health Board’s understanding of the financial impact of healthcare demand.
- Working with the Assistant Director of Finance – Commissioning, Business Intelligence and Value across the Team's agenda.
- Leading the Commissioning, Value and Business Intelligence team in supporting the development of annual business plans and three-year strategies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will lead and shape key areas of the Commissioning, Business Intelligence and Value agenda, including support for service transformation, financial sustainability, medium and long-term planning, costing, commissioning arrangements and regional working. You will work collaboratively with colleagues within the Health Board and with external partners to ensure robust financial advice, effective agreements and a clear focus on improving value for patients and communities, whilst raising understanding of costs of service delivery and of efficiency opportunities within the Health Board.
We are committed to supporting colleagues to develop and succeed. You will be joining a finance function that values professionalism, collaboration, improvement and constructive challenge, with opportunities to contribute to the future direction of both the team and the wider organisation.
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
If successfully shortlisted, you will be asked to complete psychometric assessments. Information regarding these and the stakeholder panels/interview will be sent to you following completion of shortlisting.
Stakeholder panels will be held on 14/10/2026.
Interview will be held on 15/10/2026.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
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This advert is for Senior Commissioning Business Intelligence and Value Finance Partner with Hywel Dda University Health Board in Carmarthen, Wales. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £80,698 - £92,984 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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