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Finance Business Partner

  • NHS
  • Full Time
  • Bath
  • 52000.00 - 55000.00 a year
NHS

Job Description

Job summary

Step into your Finance Business Partner career... Are you a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant ready to move beyond the numbers and truly influence business decisions? This is your opportunity to step into a Finance Business Partnering role where youll work directly with operational leaders, shaping strategy, driving performance, and making a real impact across vital healthcare services. Youll partner a diverse portfolio worth £3040m, gaining exposure, responsibility, and the chance to develop into a fully-fledged commercial finance leader. What youll be doing This is far more than a reporting role youll be at the heart of commercial decision-making: Producing and delivering monthly management accounts with clear, actionable insights Partnering with operational and clinical teams to drive financial performance and improve outcomes Supporting budgeting & forecasting, helping stakeholders plan and make smarter decisions Turning complex financial data into simple, impactful recommendations for non-finance colleagues Providing analysis on costs, revenue, contracts, and service performance Contributing to new bids, service improvements, and transformation projects Strengthening financial controls and identifying opportunities to improve processes You'll quickly become the go-to finance expert for your stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

Step into your Finance Business Partner career. Are you a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant ready to move beyond the numbers and truly influence business decisions? This is your opportunity to step into a Finance Business Partnering role where youll work directly with operational leaders, shaping strategy, driving performance, and making a real impact across vital healthcare services. Youll partner a diverse portfolio worth £3040m, gaining exposure, responsibility, and the chance to develop into a fully-fledged commercial finance leader. This is far more than a reporting role youll be at the heart of commercial decision-making: Producing and delivering monthly management accounts with clear, actionable insights. Partnering with operational and clinical teams to drive financial performance and improve outcomes. You'll quickly become the go-to finance expert for your stakeholders.

About us

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.

Job responsibilities

Package Description: Step into your Finance Business Partner career...

Are you a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant ready to move beyond the numbers and truly influence business decisions?

This is your opportunity to step into a Finance Business Partnering role where youll work directly with operational leaders, shaping strategy, driving performance, and making a real impact across vital healthcare services.

Youll partner a diverse portfolio worth £3040m , gaining exposure, responsibility, and the chance to develop into a fully-fledged commercial finance leader.

What youll be doing

This is far more than a reporting role youll be at the heart of commercial decision-making:

  • Producing and delivering monthly management accounts with clear, actionable insights
  • Partnering with operational and clinical teams to drive financial performance and improve outcomes
  • Supporting budgeting & forecasting , helping stakeholders plan and make smarter decisions
  • Turning complex financial data into simple, impactful recommendations for non-finance colleagues
  • Providing analysis on costs, revenue, contracts, and service performance
  • Contributing to new bids, service improvements, and transformation projects
  • Strengthening financial controls and identifying opportunities to improve processes

You'll quickly become the go-to finance expert for your stakeholders.

Who were looking for

Were keen to hear from ambitious, forward-thinking finance professionals who want to step up into a commercial role.

Essential:
  • Part-qualified or newly qualified ( ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent )
  • Experience preparing accounts (trial balance through to final accounts)
  • Strong Excel and analytical skills
  • Ability to explain financials clearly to non-finance stakeholders
  • Confidence to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
  • A collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills
  • Valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes*

*this role requires travel across the BSW patch.

Desirable:
  • Exposure to business partnering or stakeholder-facing roles
  • Experience working with large cost bases or multiple service lines
  • NHS / healthcare experience (helpful but not essential)

For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to the attached job description.

This is the perfect move if you want to transition from a traditional finance role into a true business partnering position :

  • Real responsibility early manage a £3040m portfolio
  • Direct stakeholder exposure work with senior operational leaders
  • Career progression fast-track your move into senior FBP roles
  • Hybrid working with flexibility and autonomy
  • Study support (if still qualifying)
  • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in healthcare services

Package Description

  • £52,000 - £55,000 annual salary with group pension
  • Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support at locations across the country
  • Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
  • Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
  • Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
  • An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
  • The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and ...

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