Job summary
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking an experienced and dynamic Commercial Financial Controller to provide expert financial leadership across the Trust’s commercial portfolio. This includes overseeing two commercial subsidiaries and delivering an outsourced finance function to external entities. The role supports UHB’s strategic ambition to Build Healthier Lives, ensuring commercial income streams, partnerships, ventures and contracts are financially sound, deliver value for money and align with our core values of Kind, Connected and Bold.
Main duties of the job
- Lead financial management and oversight of commercial activities and subsidiaries within UHB.
- Provide high‑quality financial planning, forecasting and commercial modelling to support strategic decision making.
- Ensure commercial ventures and income streams are developed, evaluated and monitored using robust financial frameworks.
- Produce timely, accurate and insightful financial analysis and performance reports for senior stakeholders.
- Support strong financial governance across contracts, partnerships and business cases to maximise value for the Trust.
- Advise senior leaders on financial risks, opportunities and commercial strategy.
- Foster collaborative working relationships with operational, financial and external partners to strengthen commercial performance.
- Ensure all activities align with UHB’s values and the Trust’s commitment to delivering high‑quality, sustainable healthcare services.
Person Specification
Qualifications – Essential
- CCAB recognised accountancy qualification.
- Post‑qualification experience in a complex environment.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Experience – Essential
- Experience of monthly reporting cycles and population of month‑end reports.
- Report writing.
- Experience of working with other finance colleagues to ensure monthly tasks are completed within tight deadlines.
Experience – Desirable
- Experience of NHS capital reporting and funding mechanisms.
- Experience of NHS monthly and annual reporting processes.
- Experience of charity accounting and reporting and commercial entities.
Additional Criteria – Essential
- Translate strategic directives into operational deliverables.
- Use own initiative while knowing when to consult.
- Logical thinker with sound analytical skills, able to deal with large volumes of complex data and perform highly complex analysis of financial data.
- Ability to make judgements/decisions in complex situations and use professional judgement to ensure the best outcome for the Trust.
- Ability to clearly and coherently document justification for professional judgements made.
- Manage a large workload and plan work according to changing priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and writing skills.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Well‑developed systems and IT knowledge.
- Ability to use databases, analyse highly complex data, diagnose problems, identify solutions and undertake business case benefits analysis.
- Managing timetables, milestones and diaries.
- Experience of personal development planning and monitoring.
- Manage time and work to tight deadlines and respond quickly and accurately to important issues.
- Promote, drive and deliver a customer‑focused service.
- Remain calm and collected under pressure.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Influencing skills.
- High level analytical skills.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- A team player.
- Ability to explain complex concepts to non‑financial team members and external parties.
- Adhere to the Trust values and behaviours.
- Appetite for hard work in a challenging but rewarding environment.
- Enthusiastic.
- Confident.
- An understanding of and demonstrable commitment to equal opportunities.
- Evidence of reliability.
- Occasional travel between sites.
- Resilient.
- Adaptable to change.
Additional Criteria – Desirable
- Sound understanding of the NHS Financial Regime.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service 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.
Employer details
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Regent CourtSecond Floor, 14, George RoadBirmingham, West MidlandsB15 1NTUnited Kingdom
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