Financial Controller in Nottingham

Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Finance that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it! As a Financial Controller, you’ll play a key role in ensuring strong financial governance and supporting CQC to deliver safe, effective care for people across England.

Overview

As a Financial Controller in Finance, you might get the chance to work on:

• Leading the preparation and submission of CQC’s Annual Report and Accounts, including working with auditors and supporting the process of laying accounts before Parliament.
• Improving how CQC manages and reports on different funding streams, helping the organisation meet public finance rules and strengthen long-term financial planning.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen financial control: Maintain and improve financial processes, systems and policies to ensure compliance with standards, audits and public finance rules.
• Lead financial accounting services: Oversee core accounting functions such as statutory reporting, treasury activity, income forecasting and balance sheet management.
• Support people and performance: Lead and develop a high-performing finance team, setting clear goals, supporting learning, and ensuring delivery against agreed plans.

We welcome applications from everyone, and colleagues can find support and community among our many employee networks. This includes people of any age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, ethnicity, and disability.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting expertise: Experience working as a qualified accountant, with responsibility for statutory accounts and financial control in a complex organisation.
• Leading finance operations: Experience managing end-to-end financial accounting activities, using finance systems to deliver accurate reporting and meet deadlines.
• Working with others: Experience working with senior leaders, auditors or external partners to explain financial information and agree actions or improvements.

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England. Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

Our Finance, Commercial, Workplace and Performance (FCWP) Team provides a high-quality financial service across our organisation. Together with your expertise, we can work towards building a safer, stronger health and social care service across the country.

Values and Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including:

• Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
• Training and development opportunities.
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation.
• NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
• Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card, at a cost of £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!