Associate Director – Financial Management
The closing date is 19 May 2026
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts; the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards.
NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking a highly experienced senior finance professional to join the organisation as Associate Director – Financial Management (Band 8c).
The Associate Director will provide senior leadership and oversight of all ICB internal and external monthly reporting, ensuring accuracy, transparency and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
Main duties of the job
* Lead the ICB financial management function, including allocations, forecasting, reporting and assurance processes.
* Act as the primary financial advisor to Directors with responsibility for running costs and transformation programmes.
* Support the Director of Finance Commissioning & CFO in managing NHSE relationships and ensuring assurance around submissions.
* Lead and develop the management accounting team, ensuring high performance and professional standards.
* Support system‑wide financial sustainability and delivery of statutory financial targets.
* Provide senior financial leadership across corporate services, CMO and CNO portfolios.
* Oversee the ICB allocations process and ensure its alignment with strategic objectives and system priorities.
About us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
* Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience.
* CCAB qualified or equivalent experience.
* Senior level experience of co‑ordinating internal and external statutory financial reporting.
* Experience of communicating complex financial matters in layperson’s language.
* Should have an appreciation of the relationship between Regulators and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
* An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciation of the implications of this on corporate finance.
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.
£79,504 to £91,609 a year pro rata, per annum
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