Senior Finance Business Partner - LSC Provider Collaborative

We hope to be welcoming you to the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals team soon; we’ve shown you exactly why we’re ‘a great place to work’, now it’s time to see for yourself! Have a look at our current vacancies down below and make the first step to starting a fantastic new career.

Senior Finance Business Partner – LSC Provider Collaborative

Band 8c

Main area Finance Grade Band 8c Contract Secondment: 12 months (Ending 30th April 2026) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 438-PB2740

Site Preston Business Centre Town Preston Salary £74,290 – £85,601 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 16/03/2025 23:59 Interview date 27/03/2025

Job overview

Are you ready to take the lead in driving financial excellence and transformative change?

In this pivotal role, you will spearhead the financial strategy behind service transformation across Lancashire and South Cumbria, ensuring resources are optimised for maximum impact. As a trusted finance business partner to the PCB, you’ll provide expert budgetary guidance, deliver insightful financial reports, and influence key decision-making at the board level.

This is a unique opportunity to play a crucial role in fostering collaboration across Trusts and the wider health system—shaping the future of healthcare in the region. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about making a real difference, this is the role for you!

Main duties of the job

In your role, you will drive system-wide financial improvement and transformation programmes, ensuring that efficiency, productivity, and activity align with national benchmarking tools such as Model Health, Getting it Right First Time, and Corporate Benchmarking. You will work closely with finance teams to assess major service changes, conduct cost-benefit analyses, and lead the development of innovative ways of working to improve financial performance.

• To actively develop internal and external relationships and work with Management leads, Continuous Improvement Teams, Executive Directors, senior finance teams and key stakeholders, ensuring full clinical and non-clinical engagement.
• To be responsible for own continual professional development and where necessary that of all direct reports. To act be actively engaged in providing cost benefit analysis training and service improvement methodologies and support to non-finance staff.
• To provide support to the PCBs Finance SRO in advising the PCB on strategic and operational matters relating to all aspects of finance transformation within the system.
• Effectively maintain a financial planning system to enable the achievement of its financial targets.
• Working closely with Lancashire partnership organisations, within LSC Provider Collaboration Board (PCB) and LSC Integrated Care Board, seek and share examples of best practice from a financial transformation and efficiency programme perspective.
• Working closely with the Divisions and Transformation team to ensure a consistent pipeline of financial transformation and efficiency programmes is available.
• Deputise for senior managers as required.

Person specification

Qualifications and Education

• CCAB or CIMA full member.
• Evidence of participation in the appropriate Continuing Professional Development Programme.

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven track record in a senior financial management role in the NHS acute sector.
• Expert knowledge of costing and pricing methodologies.
• Expert knowledge of Financial and Accounting Procedures.
• Extensive experience of working with others to ensure direction and policies are attainable within available resources.
• Involvement in FSD or staff development initiatives.

Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can.

#J-18808-Ljbffr