Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Lewes; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A health charity in the United Kingdom is seeking a Financial Performance Manager/Finance Business Partner to drive the financial performance of their hospitals. This role involves collaboration with senior leadership, monitoring growth plans, and identifying efficiency opportunities. The ideal candidate will have an ACA qualification, experience in financial improvement within complex organizations, and strong stakeholder management skills. The position offers a hybrid working model and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in a complex organization.
• Experience in FP&A or finance business partnering.
• Experience in the healthcare industry, especially in private hospitals.

Responsibilities

• Monitor growth plans to ensure initiatives stay on track.
• Identify efficiency opportunities and challenge costs.
• Embed a culture of continuous financial performance improvement.
• Provide commercial decision support and business insights.
• Appraise business performance and investment opportunities.
• Manage stakeholders across leadership teams.
• Support central initiatives on an ad-hoc basis.

Skills

Stakeholder management skills

Financial improvement

Exceptional communication skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

High commercial acumen

Education

ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification

Job description

Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Brighton & Chichester Hospitals | Hybrid Working (working 3 days on site – depending on business need) | Finance | Permanent | Full Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

As the Financial Performance Manager/Finance Business Partner, you’ll collaborate with senior leadership teams to drive the financial performance of our hospitals and achieve our ambitious 2026 EBITDA goals. You’ll bring expertise in delivering financial improvements, ideally within private hospitals, to this vital role.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring growth plans to ensure initiatives stay on track or are effectively mitigated if not

• Identifying efficiency opportunities and challenging costs to optimise our charity resources

• Embedding a culture of continuous financial performance improvement

• Providing commercial decision support and business insights

• Appraising business performance and investment opportunities

• Managing stakeholders across site leadership teams, regional management, and the Executive Committee

• Supporting central initiatives on an ad‑hoc basis, as needed

To succeed as our Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner, you’ll bring:

• ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification with post‑qualification experience

• Proven track record of driving financial improvement within a complex organisation

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge and negotiate effectively

• Experience in FP&A or finance business partnering

• Exceptional communication, influencing, and analytical skills

• High commercial acumen and the ability to identify actionable insights

• Experience in the healthcare industry, particularly within private hospitals, and across multiple sites is advantageous

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.