Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity is looking for a Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner to drive financial performance and deliver improvements across multiple facilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong accountancy background, proven experience in financial roles, and exceptional stakeholder management skills. The role offers hybrid working with a competitive salary package and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in financial roles.
• Experience in FP&A or finance business partnering.
• Experience in healthcare industry, especially private hospitals, is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Monitor growth plans and initiatives.
• Identify efficiency opportunities and optimize resources.
• Embed financial performance improvement culture.
• Provide business insights and decision support.
• Appraise investment opportunities.
• Manage stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Support central initiatives as needed.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Financial improvement

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Negotiation

Commercial acumen

Education

ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification

Job description

Financial Performance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Plymouth Hospital, as well as HSSU and Pathology Sites | 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.