Associate Director of Financial Management
The closing date is 21 May 2026
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an ambitious strategic and values-driven Associate Director of Financial Management. This senior leadership role is suited to a highly motivated and analytical finance professional who can provide inspirational leadership and expert financial direction, strengthening the Finance Business Partnering function.
As a key member of the Finance Directorate, you will lead the Trust's financial management, planning and reporting functions, playing a pivotal role in delivering the Trust's strategic priorities, operational objectives and financial recovery plans.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Finance Officer (CFO), you will be responsible for all aspects of financial management across the Trust, providing strong, visible leadership to Finance Business Partners and a team of accountants, ensuring high quality financial advice, robust financial control and insightful performance reporting to support decision making.
Working closely with the Deputy CFO, you will shape strategic direction, support business planning and drive financial sustainability. You will collaborate with clinical and operational colleagues to provide proactive, strategic financial advice, ensuring decisions are financially informed and aligned with operational and clinical strategies.
Main duties of the job
- Lead a proactive and high-performing Financial Management Team, providing clear strategic direction and strong people leadership.
- Oversee annual planning, budget setting and medium-term financial strategy, ensuring plans are fully triangulated with workforce and activity models.
- Lead the Trust's monthly financial reporting and forecasting to the Trust Board, NHS England and other external stakeholders.
- Provide high quality financial analysis, insight and constructive challenge to support sound decision making, productivity and value for money.
- Support the development, delivery and monitoring of the Trust's Cost Improvement Programme, ensuring schemes are robust, deliverable and well-governed.
- Oversee the financial appraisal and review of business cases, including major transformation programmes and capital and revenue investments.
- Act as a senior finance business partner to clinical, operational and corporate leaders across the Trust.
- Support the Trust's financial recovery programme, working closely with the Costings Team.
You will play a critical role in ensuring the Trust operates lawfully, sustainably and in line with NHS financial frameworks, while enabling innovation and service improvement.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Consultative Committee Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) or Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) – fully qualified.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- A further qualification in management or a Master's degree is desired.
Experience
- In-depth experience of Strategic planning, Annual planning, CIP planning, Corporate Financial reporting and the NHS Financial Regime and Reporting.
- Expert and in-depth knowledge of financial management, budgeting and budgetary control.
- In-depth understanding of service delivery issues and costings of business plans.
- Ability to develop a strategic and corporate overview.
- Extensive specialist knowledge of accounting standards and principles and the ability to interpret, apply and explain them in non-routine situations to senior managers and clinicians.
- Experience of analysing highly complex financial and activity information and evaluating the impact on business performance.
- Experience of leading and managing a team.
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.
£81,774 to £93,879 a year including fringe HCAS.
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