Senior Finance Manager
About this job
Job Advert Skip to main content
document.body.className = ((document.body.className) ? document.body.className + ' js-enabled' : 'js-enabled');
Cookies on NHS Jobs
We've put some small files called cookies on your device to help us make improvements to our site.
To improve our site we'd also like to use cookies which will send information to Google Analytics. You can read more about our cookies before you choose.
Accept analytics cookies Do not accept analytics cookies
Menu
Menu Close menu
BETA Your feedback will help us to improve this service.
Wye Valley NHS Trust Senior Finance Manager
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior finance professional to support the Trust's transformation ambitions, aligned to the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, while helping to secure financial sustainability.
This is an exciting time to join the Surgical Division, which has already made significant productivity progress and theatre utilisation, with a new theatre opening soon providing further capacity. As Senior Finance Manager, you will be a trusted and influential business partner, working alongside operational and clinical leaders to support transformation, identify and deliver efficiencies and ensure the best use of our resources for patients.
You will combine constructive support with respectful challenge, bringing financial insight and an objective perspective to decision making, with a clear focus on value for money and making every Herefordshire pound count. Alongside this, you will provide strong leadership of the Division's management accounts function and bring NHS financial expertise and commercial acumen to complex decisions and business cases.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Finance Officer you will work collaboratively across the Trust and be an important member of the Finance Senior Leadership Team. As a small Trust, the role offers regular access to the Executive team and excellent exposure to a diverse range of strategic, operational and financial challenges.
The role embraces agile working across our Herefordshire sites and from home.
Main duties of the job
As Senior Finance Manager, you will lead on financial responsibility for the Surgical Division, leading the management accounting service and ensuring strong financial governance, control and performance management.
You will ensure accurate and timely reporting, forecasting and analysis, identifying financial risks and opportunities early and supporting operational and clinical leaders to understand and take ownership of financial performance.
A key priority will be the identification and delivery of efficiencies. Working with divisional colleagues, you will support the development of robust plans, assess opportunities and risks and track delivery, providing financial leadership to transformation programmes and service developments.
You will lead the financial assessment of complex business cases, providing expert advice on affordability, value for money, risk and sustainability. Strong knowledge of NHS finance, funding and financial governance will be essential to providing credible advice and supporting well informed decisions.
You will lead and develop the Division's finance team, setting high standards and supporting professional development, continuous improvement and high performance.
As a senior member of Finance, you will also contribute to the Finance Senior Leadership Team and the continued development of the Trust's finance function.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Details
Date posted
03 September 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
229-COR-7730391-A
Job locations
Wye Valley Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Professionally qualified as an Accountant with current CCAB or CIMA professional membership.
- Commitment and evidence of continuing professional development in line with the post holder's professional accounting body.
- Further specialist finance training and experience related to wider Healthcare finance.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Expert user of Financial systems and Microsoft Excel
- Demonstrable evidence of influencing and persuading
- Evidence of complex numerical assessment experience
- Excellent verbal reasoning
- Advance report writing skills
- Understanding of current NHS structures and key policies
- Knowledge of acute hospital and community healthcare environment
- Ability to lead and motivate staff
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload effectively, in a manner which is sustainable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive expert knowledge and experience in NHS Financial Management or equivalent.
- Significant experience at a senior level in the finance sector
- Acute Sector Experience
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Professionally qualified as an Accountant with current CCAB or CIMA professional membership.
- Commitment and evidence of continuing professional development in line with the post holder's professional accounting body.
- Further specialist finance training and experience related to wider Healthcare finance.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Expert user of Financial systems and Microsoft Excel
- Demonstrable evidence of influencing and persuading
- Evidence of complex numerical assessment experience
- Excellent verbal reasoning
- Advance report writing skills
- Understanding of current NHS structures and key policies
- Knowledge of acute hospital and community healthcare environment
- Ability to lead and motivate staff
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload effectively, in a manner which is sustainable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive expert knowledge and experience in NHS Financial Management or equivalent.
- Significant experience at a senior level in the finance sector
- Acute Sector Experience
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Wye Valley Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Wye Valley Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Deputy Chief Finance Officer
Louise Caruana
01432364000
Details
Date posted
03 September 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
229-COR-7730391-A
Job locations
Wye Valley Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
United Kingdom
Supporting documents
Privacy notice
Wye Valley NHS Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)
Support links
© Crown copyright
Market insight
Explore related jobs
Similar jobs
See all similar jobsClinical Physiologist/Respiratory Healthcare Scientist Practitioner
Grounds Maintenance Operative
Sales Assistant
Sales Assistant
Sales Assistant
Salaried GP
Frequently asked questions
What salary can I expect?
This listing does not show a salary. Similar roles in Hereford often pay around 47 407 £ (median of 14 offers).
How do I apply for this job?
Open the original source page and contact the employer there. Finder never charges job seekers.
Are these jobs up to date?
Yes. Finder regularly refreshes vacancies from public sources and removes closed offers.