Director of Finance

Join the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) in a new key leadership role, where you'll provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a complex finance agenda.

Responsible for our finance and counter fraud professions, you'll develop and maintain plans to drive professional excellence, remaining compliant with govt professional standards.

We're looking for an individual that will drive a compelling vision, align diverse teams and stakeholders to deliver organisational impact and support shaping the NHSBSA strategic position within the broader healthcare system.

You'll have a record of promoting high-performance culture across finance, with a forward thinking, commercially minded and collaborative approach. A data-driven decision maker, responsible for major policy interpretation and implementation impacting organisation wide.

We're committed to being a flexible employer and are currently hybrid working. The office base for this role is Newcastle upon Tyne and we ask for flexibility to attend the office for in-person collaboration multiple times a week.

Interviews will take place in Newcastle on 17th & 18th July.

What do we offer?

• 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years' service and 33 days after ten years' service + public holidays
• Excellent pension, 23.7% employer contribution
• Flexible working
• Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Access to a wide range of benefits and high-street discounts

Main duties of the job

As a senior leader and member of NHSBSA Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief Financial Officer, you'll deliver an integrated financial strategy for all NHSBSA operations.

• Shared accountability in supporting the NHSBSA to achieve its vision, contributing to strategic and annual business plans, leading and driving operational performance improvement across services.
• Strategically align service delivery, workforce planning and operational excellence, embedding a culture of financial discipline, value for money and optimising resource.
• Ensure the financial control environment is robust, transparent and compliant with "Managing Public Money", DHSC requirements including NHSBSA delegations, government finance professional standards and internal governance
• Delivery of finance operations for core business and NHS Pension Scheme, including payroll, payables and receivables, pensions finance, financial systems, treasury and accounting services.
• Support engagement with the National Audit Office (NAO), the Audit and Risk Committee, and DHSC
• Develop and coordinate financial planning across all NHSBSA areas, including spending reviews, multi-year planning and forecasting.
• Senior leadership support to the Counter Fraud and Loss Prevention team, ensuring strong financial controls to mitigate fraud and loss.
• Lead highly complex change and transformation plans, in a changing NHS System, navigating sensitive environments.

See attached job description for full responsibilities.

About Us

Here at the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), what we do matters.

We manage the NHS Pension scheme, process prescription payments and much more. Our services are used by NHS organisations, contractors and the public: we're proud to be part of something meaningful, that touches millions of lives.

We design our services around customer needs and place people at the heart of our organisation. That's why when you join us, you'll be empowered and supported to help your career grow. As one of the UK's Best Big Companies to work for, we're connected to our values: Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We care about our people, our purpose, and your progress.

We strive to offer a fantastic colleague experience, where every colleague is heard, supported and respected. Wellbeing, diversity and inclusion is at the centre of this, and you can join our Lived Experience Networks who help us bring our authentic selves to work.

Alongside a competitive salary with pay progression, we offer a people-centric benefits package, connecting you to the rewards and benefits you value most!

Ready to join us in delivering business service excellence to the NHS, helping people live longer, healthier lives? Apply today and see where the NHSBSA can take you.

We are people connected to care.

Job Description

As a Senior Leader and a member of NHSBSA Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief Financial Officer you'll define and drive a compelling vision, aligning diverse teams and stakeholders to deliver organisational impact. This role will help shape the NHSBSA strategic position within the broader healthcare system, leveraging influence to advance priorities, anticipating trends and evolving challenges, ensuring resilience, agility and long term sustainability.

This role will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a complex finance agenda, maximising the use of resources within your remit, setting and achieving key performance indicators and break-even budgets, and maximising outcomes through productive sustainable delivery. You are responsible for corporate financial strategies and corresponding policies and procedures that drive value and efficiency through use of NHSBSAs supply chain and estate. This includes being key areas of NHSBSA that will define delivery of our Environmental and Social Impact Goals.

• As a member of the NHSBSA Finance Commercial and Estates Senior Management Team you will strive to maintain world class levels of staff engagement across the Directorate. Leading a large, diverse workforce, you will lead, inspire and develop colleagues across a range of disciplines in continuous improvement utilising user centric design methodologies, in addition to building and maintaining effective trusted relationships with external clients and key stakeholders.
• As NHSBSAs Director responsible for its finance and counter fraud professions you will develop and maintain strategies and plans to drive professional excellence including compliance with government professional standards. In this role you will maintain effective relationships and influencing skills and will be responsible for leading and operationally managing the development, implementation, and improvement of your business area, including overall responsibility for service delivery, and relationship management of external partners specifically around complex and challenging contractual performance but also in working within the NHSBSA Partnership Key Principles relating to business, culture, and values.

Strategic Leadership

Shared accountability for supporting the overall organisation to achieve its vision and contribute to the development of the organisations strategic and annual business plans, leading and driving operational performance improvement across NHSBSA Services to deliver high-quality, cost-effective services. Providing strategic leadership to a department of finance professionals who provide financial services needed to enable the delivery of the NHSBSA strategy and business plan through development and implementation of a Financial Strategy and associated plans, whilst supporting the Executive Director/Chief Financial Officer in the development of vision and strategic direction.

Strategic Financial Leadership

Support the Chief Financial Officer in delivering an integrated financial strategy for all NHSBSA operations, including administration of the NHS Pension Scheme, services Directed by the Department of Health and Social Care and other commissioned services.

Provide leadership across the finance portfolio to ensure joined-up planning, effective business support and alignment with the organisations strategic objectives. Ensure NHSBSAs financial control environment is robust, transparent and compliant with Managing Public Money, DHSC requirements including NHSBSA Delegations and applicable government finance professional standards, and internal governance frameworks. Represent finance in organisation-wide planning and service transformation discussions, offering strategic insight and challenge.

Financial Management and Control

Oversee delivery of finance operations for both NHSBSA core business and the NHS Pension Scheme, including payroll, payables and receivables, pensions finance, financial systems, treasury and accounting services. Ensure timely and accurate production of all statutory and non-statutory financial returns, including the NHS Pension Scheme accounts, in compliance with relevant accounting and audit standards. Work with the CFO to support engagement with the National Audit Office (NAO), the Audit and Risk Committee, and the Department of Health and Social Care. Promote best practice financial controls and assurance mechanisms across all teams.

Financial Strategy, Business Planning and Performance

Lead development and coordination of financial planning across all areas of NHSBSA, including Spending Reviews, multi-year planning and forecasting including for the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme. Ensure that NHSBSAs finance business partnering model supports effective decision-making, budget accountability, and delivery of business priorities across the organisation.

Tackling Fraud and Loss in the Health System

Provide senior oversight for the finance functions role in fraud detection, prevention and reporting, including NHS Pension Scheme-related risks. Provide senior leadership support to the Counter Fraud and Loss Prevention team to ensure strong financial controls are in place to mitigate fraud and loss. Promote fraud awareness and accountability across all finance teams, embedding this within financial operations, planning and reporting. Ensure alignment with the Cabinet Office Public Sector Fraud Authority, DHSC Anti Fraud Unit and NHS Counter Fraud Authority standards and expectations.