Senior Finance Partner - Projects

Job overview

Are you looking for a finance role where you can combine strong technical skills with innovation, improvement and real impact? At South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, you will be joining an organisation with well-established community links and a strong reputation for delivering high-quality mental health services across Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth, as well as specialist services for people across the UK.

Guided by our mission of making life better together, and by our values of being respectful, open, compassionate, collaborative and consistent, we are looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking finance professional to join our Financial Management team at an exciting time for the Trust.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will play an important part in helping the Finance Directorate deliver high-quality financial reporting, monthly management information and Trust-wide improvement projects. You will work closely with finance colleagues, operational and corporate teams, and digital partners to strengthen reporting, improve processes and make better use of data across the organisation.

A key part of the role will be identifying and delivering opportunities for innovation and automation, using tools such as Power BI, AI etc. to reduce manual processes, improve data quality and support better decision making.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About you

You may be a CCAB qualified accountant, finalist or professionally recognised equivalent with strong financial management experience, excellent analytical skills and the confidence to work with senior stakeholders. You will be someone who is highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and motivated by improving how finance services are delivered.

We are particularly interested in candidates who bring curiosity, creativity and a practical approach to problem solving. If you enjoy challenging existing ways of working constructively, turning ideas into measurable improvements and using data to support better decisions, this could be a great opportunity for you. Experience of NHS finance, Power BI, automation or digital transformation would be valuable, but above all we are looking for someone with the enthusiasm and drive to make a difference.

Our offer to you

In return, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive finance team, contribute to meaningful improvement across a major mental health Trust and help shape how financial management services evolve. We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, a collaborative working environment and the chance to build experience across both core finance and digital improvement work.

If you are passionate about high-quality financial management, curious about digital innovation and keen to make a positive difference to how services are supported, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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Applicant requirements

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.