Employer: King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: £75,328 to £86,114 a year
Job Type: Full-time
The closing date is 28 May 2026
Job Summary
The Finance Business Partner will take responsibility for providing highly complex and business focused advice and will be expected to undertake the role of expert in the management accounting and business analysis fields.
The post holder will need to make decisions on a range of complex financial situations and be responsible for leading and developing a team ensuring a comprehensive and efficient service is provided to divisional managers, senior managers, budget holders and external stakeholders at all times.
The role will require forensic accounting methods to analyse complex business opportunities for the division. Business decisions will require a clear understanding of the principles supporting the NHSI risk rating regime as well as the impact on the Trust’s Income and Expenditure.
The successful candidate will direct, motivate and manage the team and play a key role in developing skills and working with other senior finance colleagues to ensure the finance function overall provides high quality, professional financial support to the Trust that meets the needs of the business.
The post holder must have a recognised CCAB or equivalent qualification and have significant experience in senior roles within finance and be fully committed to Continuous Professional Development.
Main Duties of the Job
Planning and Development
- Produce financial plans for the division that meets the financial objectives of the Trust
- Develop, implement and monitor the financial components of the Divisions Annual Plan ensuring that efficient systems are available to allow income and expenditure plans to be projected for up to 3 years
- Provide expert advice on the Division’s Income and Activity position to the Senior Divisional Team
- Lead in the development of divisional CIP schemes. To review CIP plans for the services within their divisions, challenging assumptions and assessing risk to ensure scheme information is robust, accurate and deliverable
- Lead on investment appraisal and highly complex financial analysis of divisional development proposals and business cases, both internal and external to the Trust. To work closely with the capital team to ensure that the impacts of capital costs are fully factored into revenue business cases and vice versa. To challenge assumptions with relevant individuals and to be responsible for ensuring that financial modelling is robust, accurate and in line with overall Trust objectives, assessing risks and identifying risk mitigating actions as required
- Present highly complex financial information to Executive Directors, Divisional Managers, Divisional Clinical Directors and other Senior Managers within the Trust
About King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via the Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, net zero carbon targets have been set for 2040 for the NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for the NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in the Green Plan and all staff are encouraged to work responsibly, minimising contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is the Vision to be BOLD: Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything the Trust does. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, Team King’s can be taken to another level.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
Financial Management Department Responsibilities
Be the lead for one of these key financial management departmental roles.
- Finance staff development lead
- Income development lead
- Finance System development lead
- Budget development lead
- R&D development lead
- Reporting development lead
Responsible for interpreting national guidelines and setting guidance on how they apply to the Trust ensuring correct policies and processes are in place to ensure they are implemented correctly.
Professional Responsibilities
- Maintain the integrity of the Trusts financial systems, procedures and reports. This includes regularly designing and updating bespoke reports tailored to the requirement of individual divisional management teams
- Maintain professional standards within the Financial Management team
- Ensure that Standing Financial Instructions, Standing Orders and financial policies & procedures are adhered to
- To implement audit recommendations and continually working on improving financial practices throughout the Trust
- To undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in line with the relevant institute requirements
Applicants will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified CCAB accountant, with substantial post qualification experience at a senior level. Post holder must comply with all the professional ethics of the accounting body to which they are registered
Experience
Essential
- Significant management accounting experience at a senior level
- Significant experience of the NHS or similar clinical environment
- Staff management experience including recruitment, selection, objective setting, appraisals and managing performance
- Presentation of highly complex financial and non-financial information
Skills
Essential
- Expert understanding of management accounting processes and best practice. Including forecasting, modelling, trend analysis
- Detailed understanding of the financial analysis required for the submission of service development business cases, including SWOT, Sensitivity analyses, payback period, Internal rate of return, discounted cash flows etc.
- Knowledge of other non-financial KPIs and the interdependency with the financial position, e.g. 18 weeks, 4-hour ED target, Cdiff and MRSA
- High level financial management skills, ability to work proactively to identify and appropriately mitigate emerging financial risks in a complex and rapidly changing environment
- Strong report writing skills
- Strong technical accounting knowledge
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
How to Apply
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