# Senior Lead, Finance and Planning Business Partnering > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-lead-finance-and-planning-business-partnering/5380874d-80ed-48da-8085-740ad764a20f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-lead-finance-and-planning-business-partnering/5380874d-80ed-48da-8085-740ad764a20f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Location:** Leeds/London or (any other NHSE sites are consider) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 6 months (until 31/03/2027. Secondment only for current NHS employees) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T14:41:14.711Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/LeedsLondon/NHS_England/Finance/Finance-v8239792 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8239792?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview The Secondary Care, Primary Care, Community Services, Vaccinations and Screening Finance and Planning Business Partnering team in the NHS England Finance and Planning Directorate is now recruiting for a Senior Finance Lead This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of work to support the NHS. - work closely with government to agree NHS funding - ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget - decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England - support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services - set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year - report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year - explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money; - look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services - consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS - support internal decision-making and prioritisation As a Senior Finance Lead, you will work as the bridge between NHS England’s directorates and the specialist finance teams to produce high-quality financial reporting and advice that drives value for money and improves patient care. ### Main duties of the job The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector. Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for. Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply. As a Senior Finance Lead you will play a pivotal role in: - building strong relationships with senior leaders across the organisation; - building and leading a diverse, inclusive and high-performing team; and - using your own and your team’s financial and planning expertise and knowledge to support delivery of the directorate and programmes’ objectives. You will be expected to work in a matrix fashion across the SPCVS team, with specific duties and responsibilities reflecting team priorities. You should expect to have a significant part of your role focusing on supporting the Chief Operating Officer Directorate (with sub-teams including Corporate Estates, Legal, Governance & Inquiries and People & Organisational Development), the Medical Directorate and Performance & Delivery Directorate. so will need to have or build a knowledge of the operations and policy objectives of these areas, with a focus on those that you will directly support. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role. Interested in applying and want to find out more about our team and the work we do? Please email Neil Lester on neillester@nhs.net or Duncan Watson on duncanwatson@nhs.net you would like to discuss. ### Secondments Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Leading the consolidation of financial and management reporting, assessing options, and making recommendations to deliver well-controlled and "single source of the truth” financial processes and reporting methodologies - Leading at diverse levels to achieve the timely and accurate completion of specific financial objectives including annual budgets and monthly forecasting and reporting, and supporting areas of technical specialism such as income, capital accounting and VAT - The NHS planning process – either or both of national commissioning and collection or local planning in response to the national commission - Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups ### Values **Essential** - Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation and values diversity and difference - Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop - Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values - Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others ### Knowledge **Essential** - Finance Partnering techniques and best practice and how to implement within a partnering team - A clear understanding of how finance adds value to the wider organisation and how your role contributes to that - Financial performance management and value for money at a strategic level - Budgeting, costing, and forecasting techniques ### Qualifications **Essential** - Must hold a CCAB or CIMA professional accountancy qualification and have extensive relevant post-qualifying experience - Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572076) - [nhse functional requirement (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10559950) - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [note for existing nhs employees applying for fixed term vacancies (docx, 26.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2084) ## 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.