Overview
Barts Health NHS Trust is one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers and the largest Trust in the NHS with a turnover of approximately £1.5 billion and 16,000 employees, serving a population of 2.5m in East London and beyond. We offer a full portfolio of services and are home to some of Britain’s leading specialist centres including cancer, cardiac, trauma and emergency care, including the London air ambulance. We also have one of the UK’s busiest children’s hospitals, internationally renowned surgical facilities and the new Heart Centre. The vision is to create a world-class health organisation with an international reputation for excellence in patient care, research and education.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated CCAB Qualified Accountant to join the finance team. We are looking for a driven individual who is self-motivated, pro-active and with excellent planning and organisational skills.
Responsibilities
- Support the Head of Finance (HoF) and Deputy Head of Finance (DHoF) to deliver all aspects of the service area (hospital site, clinical support services or corporate areas) financial management.
- Manage a team of accountants to provide day to day support in all aspects of the service area’s financial performance and business partnering while maintaining an excellent team ethic.
- Constructively and positively challenge all aspects of hospital/corporate areas’ financial and business performance and financial management processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- Produce accurate and timely monthly performance reports for agreement with the HoF/DHoF for presentation at business unit board meetings and feed into the Trust position for internal and external corporate reporting.
- Provide analytical review to support reported performance and influence actions based on findings.
- Oversee the preparation of robust forecasts to be agreed with the HoF/DHoF, including planning and monitoring mitigating actions.
- Deputise for the Head of Finance or Deputy Head of Finance in their absence, including attendance at business unit Boards, Specialty Boards and Performance Reviews.
- Apply specialist knowledge of reporting, payment by results, reference costs and revenue consequences of capital to deliver high quality, comprehensive reports.
Qualifications
- CCAB Qualified Accountant.
- Senior financial management and business partnering capability, with expert accounting knowledge and the ability to communicate highly complex or contentious financial information clearly to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
- Experience in preparing performance reports and robust forecasts, with the ability to support planning and remedial actions.
About the role and applying
The post holder is a senior member of the Financial Management and business unit teams and will provide analytical support and clear presentation of financial information. The role requires challenging financial and business performance while maintaining a constructive approach and strong team leadership.
Additional information
Specialist knowledge of reporting, payment by results, reference costs and revenue consequences of capital will be required to assist in the delivery of high-quality reports.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation, lifting ourselves out of special measures and continuing to improve services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. We value our WeCare values and behaviours and strive to create an inclusive working environment where every staff member has a sense of belonging.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band. We are committed to flexible working and will discuss options with the recruiting manager.
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This advert closes on Sunday 22 Mar 2026
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