Job overview
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a fully qualified, highly motivated, and significantly experienced and innovative finance leader to join GMMH. The role of Senior Finance Business Partner - Analytics, Productivity & Reporting, provides high-quality financial management advice and support to managers and clinicians across GMMH’s services and provides leadership and support within the wider finance team.
The person we are looking for;
1. Fully Qualified CCAB or CIMA Accountant.
2. Highly motivated and proactive
3. Evidence of continuing professional development
4. Experience of working in financial management roles, ideally (but not necessarily) in the NHS.
5. Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing,
6. Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
7. Ability to manage staff and motivate colleagues.
8. Ability to automate and efficiently analyse complex data to drive analyses and reporting to support change, efficiency and improvement initiatives
Main duties of the job
The successful person will be responsible for leading identification of improvement opportunities in the teams’ systems and processes to enhance the speed and accuracy of reporting, financial analysis and planning and internal controls.
You will be professionally and personally ‘curious’, with a natural interest in discovering the truth behind datasets to ‘tell our story’. You will be interested to bring the benefits of digital approaches to improve the finance teams’ ways of working and offer to our service users, including those driven by Artificial Intelligence (from Automation to Generative AI and beyond).
You will deliver effective communication and have excellent interpersonal and people / management skills. You will have strong negotiating skills and be capable and confident to work under your own initiative with a range of staff within the finance team and wider Trust to develop timely and fit for purpose solutions.
The postholder will be a key member of the wider finance team and will provide expert finance advice and guidance to a range of colleagues, including other senior finance managers, Care Group and Divisional colleagues, other corporate stakeholders and those within the wider health and care system ( other providers, commissioners).
The post holder will require a full professional accountancy qualification (CIMA / CCAB), as well as significant post-qualification experience of working in a senior finance manager role.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits
9. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
10. Excellent pension
11. Cycle to work scheme
12. Salary sacrifice car scheme
13. Wellbeing programme
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. •Degree level education •CCAB Accountancy Qualification Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
15. •Higher level degree or post graduate level management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
16. •Significant demonstrable experience of financial management, including knowledge of key accounting practice, principles and standards. •Significant experience of developing, applying and utilising costing practice and methodologies to develop data to drive organisational change. •Experience of successfully working with and engaging with senior clinicians, operational managers and other stakeholders to understand data and develop action plans. •Experience of benchmarking, analysing results, data visualisation and presenting opportunities, using a range of complex data sources. •Experience of staff management and leadership, including delivering support, coaching and training, organising recruitment activities, and providing mechanisms for appraisal and dealing with any issues •Knowledge of human resource techniques, required to lead, develop and maximise the performance of staff. •Creative and innovative, with the desire and ability to propose changes to working practices and procedures.
Desirable criteria
17. •A successful track record in a variety of NHS finance roles •Significant post-qualification experience at a senior level within the NHS •Operational management experience including project/change management •Track record of stakeholder engagement
Knowledge
Essential criteria
18. •Excellent Excel knowledge to extract, interrogate and produce data analyses efficiently and using automated techniques •Business Cases •Efficiency and productivity projects •Financial assessment •Recovery Plans
Desirable criteria
19. •An appreciation of the NHS financial regime •understanding of NHS targets
Skills
Essential criteria
20. •Data management and automation skills using Excel / AI / similar approaches to understand and interpret complex financial information. •Strong numeracy and analytical skills •A high standard of general computer literacy. •Proven ability to operate/think laterally and see the wider corporate view, and make decisions which are in the best interests of the organisation. •Ability to lead team building, coaching and motivating staff both finance and non-finance with regards to their financial responsibilities. •Ability to take the lead on key developments, acting as a specialist in a particular financial area. •Ability to take responsibility for own workload and balance different aspects of the role, overseeing that of others, forward planning, working flexibly and prioritising competing demands. •Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to develop presentations and reports, chair meetings and deal with issues covering a wide range of parties.
Desirable criteria
21. •Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Access / Excel / Power Bi
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications
A candidate may utilise the help of AI when writing job application. The assessment of an application is made on its entirety and most times AI-generated content does not fully grasp the context and requirements of the job one applies for thus producing inaccurate and misleading information, especially in the supporting statement section of an application that can lack real life examples of one’s achievements, success and challenges.
We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.
Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click .
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.
The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it.
Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.