Bank - Senior Finance Business Partner

At Milton Keynes University Hospital, you will be welcomed into a friendly and supportive environment where teamwork and respect are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to live our Trust values and behaviours every day, creating a culture where everyone feels heard and valued.

MKUH staff's Motivation and Involvement scores are among the highest in our peer group, showing that our people feel inspired and included in decision-making (Staff Survey, 2024).

Our benefits

We believe in recognising and rewarding the amazing contribution of our staff and that is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, work-life balance, and professional growth, including:

• Free on-site parking including EV charging
• Complimentary refreshments
• Flexible working arrangements
• Discounted gym membership
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Generous annual leave, with the option to bank holiday entitlement
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• On-site nursery (charges apply)
• A wide-ranging staff health and wellbeing programme including EAP
• VIVUP products to support your mental, physical, and financial Wellbeing

Job overview

Bank - Senior Finance Business Partner

Department Finance

Band 8b £34.05 - £39.57 Per hour

Hours 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated qualified accountant to be a key part of the Surgical Division at Milton Keynes Hospital to work Bank during the period of Tuesday 5th of May to 31st of May 2026.

If you're a CCAB qualified professional with financial management expertise, adept at partnership and influencing, and driven by the desire to enact positive change within the NHS, then this opportunity might be for you!

You will report to the Head of Financial Management and lead the month end closedown and budget setting for the division, ensuring team resources are deployed effectively to meet key deadlines. Key relationships will be formed with divisional and service managers and clinicians in order to support the management of resources within the income which their services generate.

You will work closely with divisions on budget setting, budgetary management, forecasting and efficiency plans as well as leading on Trust-wide developments and business cases.

The successful candidate will have well developed interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively with staff across all levels and disciplines within the organisation.

For further information, please contact Sue Fox via email: [email protected]

Interview w/c 27th of April 2026

Main duties of the job

'We care We communicate We collaborate We contribute'

To provide expert, specialist and in-depth financial advice and support to the Surgical Division, Director of Finance, Deputy Directors of Finance and other managers in provision of financial services to the Trust whilst ensuring financial probity and compliance with SFI’s, SO’s and other policies of the Trust at all times.

To promote a professional approach within the clinical Division ensuring that the financial consequence of service change/development are fully considered and evaluated and to provide direction and support to the Division to enable the achievement of Divisional, Trust and national targets.

To lead on Trustwide improvement projects: defining current processes, facilitating discussions and advising colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document these processes as agreed and oversee their delivery.

Working for our organisation

Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a “Good” rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.

As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.

We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre.

Further investment is underway, including the construction of Oak Wards – a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards – and the recently approved Women and Children’s Centre, set to open by 2030.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Managing Services:

• Produce monthly financial reporting packs which set out clearly performance in all aspects of finance, activity and contractual targets delivery, ensuring a clear story of outcomes and causal factors is provided. Take lead role in ensure that actions required to improve financial performance are identified, articulated and bought into by divisional operational management.
• Using the corporate templates, and process, produce forecasts on a monthly basis for activity and expenditure with CSU colleagues. These forecasts will be coherent and supported by full rationale. Where necessary these forecasts will be presented in formal meetings. Set out how risks and opportunities in financial forecast and work with the divisional operational team to mitigate risks and exploit opportunities.

Improving Services:

• Working closely with the finance programme manager, develop business cases as necessary in line with prescribed Trust format and process. Ensure that content of cases is robust and evidence based and reflect full consideration of options to deliver best value.
• Present highly complex information about projects initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.

Working with others:

• Encourages, supports and facilitates divisional, CSU and Trustwide staff to contribute and innovate for the improvement of patient care and the efficiency, safety, quality and effectiveness of services; finding ways to empower staff to implement their ideas for improvement as well a challenging Divisions to improve financial performance whilst taking account of quality and safety of service.
• Works within the divisional triumvirate in a truly “multidisciplinary” way, flexibly supporting colleagues and taking on the appropriate share of joint responsibilities and workload;

Demonstrating personal qualities:

• The post holder will be expected to operate with discretion and without direct supervision to deliver the requirements of both the finance function and the Division/CSU. This will necessitate skill in balancing competing priorities as well as deal with contentious issues.
• Acts as a leadership role model to demonstrate the Trust’s values and behaviours at all times.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details

Person specification

Qualifications and knowledge

• Professional Accountancy qualification
• Educated to postgraduate level, equivalent, or working toward.
• Evidence of CPD
• Knowledge and experience in a management accounts setting. Including month-end, year-end management accounting procedures and forecasting
• Highly developed specialist/expert knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial and other aspects of legislation and NHS finance policies; QUIP; CIP; SLR; experience and expertise in financial accounting and disciplines relevant to commercial finance including: procurement, human resources, general management theory and information management and technology.

• Examples of the above essential areas include; Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Financial Directives, International Financial Reporting Standards/Statements of Standard Accounting Practice, Government Policy as it effects the NHS, Charitable Funds legislation, Audit principles of internal check and control, VAT, EU Procurement Directives, NHS procurement guidance, NHS staffing terms and conditions and employment law.
• Understanding of NHS Income and proven ability to analyse variances

Experience

• Significant experience working at a senior level within a finance department

Skills

• Ability to analyse highly technical issues and provide practical guidance and recommendations that can be understood and acted upon by Executives and users on matters such as capital investment, business cases and savings plans.
• The post holder will be expected to operate with discretion and without direct supervision to deliver the requirements of both the finance function and the Division/CSU. This will necessitate skill in balancing priorities.
• Able to work with conflicting priorities and make judgements on these in order to effectively deliver the best service to stakeholders
• Highly numerate; able to analyse reports and complex data sets
• Ability to achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines.

Personal and people development

• High personal standard of conduct and behaviour and ability to act as a role model encouraging others to value and respect staff and stakeholders and holds others to account for this.

• Builds and develops multidisciplinary teams, and maintains constructive working relationships at all levels and disciplines.

Communication

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to a wide range of individuals, e.g. preparing, and presenting financial information to Management Board members and staff groups, working with Trust senior managers and project managers and assisting external auditors
• Evidence of personal insight, and willingness to learn and change personal style/approach as appropriate.
• Able to communicate highly complex information to a wide variety of stakeholders in the most appropriate way to ensure understanding and buy-in.
• Able to communicate contentious issues with sensitivity and empathy.

We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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