Assistant Finance Director - Group Accounts
Job Description
Job summary
As Assistant Finance Director - Group Accounts, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering the Group's financial accounting function. Supporting the Deputy Finance Director - Financial Services & Capital, you will lead the timely and accurate production of consolidated accounts across the Group, ensuring the highest standards of financial governance, compliance and reporting.
Working closely with senior leaders across the Trust and wider healthcare system, you will provide expert financial leadership, influence strategic decision making and help shape the future direction of financial services across the Group. This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to make a significant organisational impact while leading and developing teams within a supportive, ambitious and continually evolving finance function.
Main duties of the job
Key areas of responsibility include:o Monthly consolidated accounts for the Groupo Year-end accounts production for the Trust and the consolidated Groupo Leadership of the external year end audito Cash flow monitoring and forecastingo Treasury and cashiers' managemento Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivableo Financial controls including balance sheet reconciliations
Closing date for applications: 6 August 2026
Interviews will take place w/c: 17 August 2026 - Actual date to be confirmed
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Job responsibilities
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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications CPD Requirements
Essential
- Current registration with CCAB body
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of working in Financial services in complex organisations
- Demonstrable experience of accounting under IFRS and other technical regimes
- Significant technical accounting or external audit experience, including consolidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development / commitment to on going personal development
- A demonstrable advanced level of understanding of Microsoft Excel
Desirable
- Knowledge and expertise of accounting under the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) Group Accounting Manual (GAM)
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Able to make decisions when guided by broad principles and departmental policies.
- Demonstrate exceptional analytical, numerical, and investigative skills. Able to analyse, reconcile and interpret complex financial data and resolve queries and anomalies
Communications and interpersonal skills
Essential
- Evidence of preparing and leading presentations on financial issues for all trust staff
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
United Kingdom
