Senior Finance Business Partner

Our vision is for safe and effective nursing and midwifery practice across the four countries of the UK – regulated and supported by the NMC – a fit for the future organisation, with fairness and equity at the heart of everything we do.

Our role is to protect the public and maintain confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions. As the largest independent regulator in Europe of more than 860,000 nursing and midwifery professionals, we have a crucial role in making this a reality.

We do this by setting and promoting high education and professional standards for all future and registered nurses and midwives in the UK and nursing associates in England. We also ensure every nurse, midwife and nursing associate on our Register meets clear standards of conduct and practice which protects the public and the reputation of our professions.

We have a duty to investigate concerns and to take steps to protect the public in the relatively rare instances where we need to limit or restrict a nurse, midwife or nursing associate’s right to practise.

We are building a new NMC with integrity, fairness, respect, equity and effectiveness at its core. We are determined to improve and modernise our culture and ways of working. This will ensure that the public and professionals feel confident in our work.

At the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), finance plays a vital role in helping us deliver our purpose of regulating nursing and midwifery professionals in the public interest. We're strengthening our Finance Business Partnering function and are looking for two exceptional finance professionals to join us in newly enhanced strategic roles.

Whether you're an experienced strategic finance leader looking to influence organisation-wide decisions, or a commercially minded finance partner with a passion for operational insight and transformation, these opportunities offer the chance to make a real difference in a complex and evolving organisation.

About the Team: Our Finance team is transforming the way financial insight supports decision-making across the NMC. We are moving beyond traditional reporting to become trusted advisers, helping leaders understand performance, manage risk, optimise resources and make informed decisions that deliver lasting value.

Working in partnership with colleagues across the organisation, our Finance Business Partners provide robust challenge, meaningful analysis and forward-looking insight that helps shape strategy, improve performance and support delivery of our organisational priorities. You'll join a collaborative, ambitious team that values integrity, accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement.

Your Role & Impact:

• As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll be a key strategic adviser to Executive Directors and senior leaders, providing financial leadership that influences major decisions across the organisation.
• You'll lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning processes while delivering sophisticated analysis, modelling and scenario planning that helps leaders understand risks, opportunities and strategic trade-offs.
• You'll challenge assumptions, support investment decisions and help drive a culture of financial accountability and performance.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at a strategic level, influencing senior stakeholders and translating complex financial information into clear, actionable insight.

Key areas of impact include:

• Strategic business partnering with Executive Directors and senior leadership teams
• Leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes
• Financial modelling, scenario analysis and business case development
• Driving organisational performance through insightful reporting and challenge
• Supporting financial governance, risk management and continuous improvement
• Developing and mentoring finance colleagues

Operational Finance Business Partner: This newly created role offers a unique opportunity to embed financial expertise directly within our Professional Regulation Directorate. As the Operational Finance Business Partner, you'll work closely with operational leaders to transform how the Directorate understands its costs, workforce requirements and operational performance.

You'll lead the development of activity-based costing models, workforce planning tools and benefits tracking frameworks that provide unprecedented visibility into operational performance and resource utilisation. You'll partner with senior operational stakeholders to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and support major transformation initiatives through robust financial analysis and decision support.

Key areas of impact include:

• Designing and implementing Activity-Based Costing methodologies
• Developing workforce and capacity planning models
• Supporting major transformation and improvement programmes
• Delivering detailed operational cost analysis and performance insights
• Enhancing forecasting accuracy through activity-based planning
• Identifying and quantifying cost efficiencies, benefits and operational risks
• Building financial capability across operational teams

What You'll Bring: For both roles, you'll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with proven experience in finance business partnering and a track record of influencing decision-making through high-quality financial insight.

You'll bring:

• Strong commercial and analytical thinking
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• The confidence to provide constructive challenge at senior levels
• Advanced financial modelling and problem-solving capability
• The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance audiences
• A proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused approach
• Experience operating successfully within complex and changing environments

Senior Finance Business Partner: You'll additionally have experience of:

• Partnering with Executive Directors and senior leadership teams
• Leading budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning processes
• Building sophisticated financial models and scenario analysis
• Supporting investment decisions, business cases and organisational change
• Leading or developing finance teams

Operational Finance Business Partner: You'll additionally have experience of:

• Activity-Based Costing (ABC) or similar unit-costing methodologies
• Workforce and capacity modelling
• Financial analysis within operational or service delivery environments
• Benefits realisation and transformation programme support
• Linking operational performance drivers to financial outcomes

Why Join Us? You'll be joining an organisation committed to making a positive difference to public protection and professional regulation. In return, we offer meaningful work, opportunities for professional development and the chance to influence decisions that have a significant organisational impact.

If you're looking for a role where your financial expertise can help shape strategy, improve performance and drive meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits:

• 30 days annual leave
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans

Additional Information: The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post.

Hybrid Working Policy: We are currently working to a policy of office attendance for two days per week with the rest of the time working from home. Before submitting your application, please ensure you are able to commit to working in one of our office locations twice per week. If you are applying for a part-time role, please pro-rata office attendance based on the number of days you would be working.

Our Pay Policy: It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.

Reasonable adjustments: We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and vetting: All of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks.