Deputy Director of Finance & Accounting
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Financial managers and directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£75,100
(£38.51 per hour)
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Description
Great leadership opportunity to join our NHS SBS team.
The Deputy Director of Finance & Accounting (F&A) supports the strategic and operational leadership of the F&A service line within NHS Shared Business Services. This role ensures high‑quality service delivery across all finance towers, drives continuous improvement and automation initiatives, maintains strong client relationships, and contributes to financial performance, governance, and capability development across the function.
The role acts as the second‑in‑command to the Director of F&A and will assume leadership responsibility in their absence.
This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days per week onsite at our Leeds office.
What you will be doing:
The Deputy Director of Finance & Accounting (F&A) supports the strategic and operational leadership of the F&A service line within NHS Shared Business Services. This role ensures high‑quality service delivery across all finance towers, drives continuous improvement and automation initiatives, maintains strong client relationships, and contributes to financial performance, governance, and capability development across the function.
The role acts as the second‑in‑command to the Director of F&A and will assume leadership responsibility in their absence.
This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days per week onsite at our Leeds office.
What you will be doing:
- Oversee delivery of end‑to‑end F&A processes across multiple clients, including P2P (Procure‑to‑Pay), O2C (Order‑to‑Cash), A2R (Accounting‑to‑Report), FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) and Master Data Management.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using best practice methodologies, automation, workflow tools, and analytics.
- Serve as a senior point of contact for client leadership teams.
- Professional certifications: ACCA, CPA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent is essential.
- Extensive experience of progressive experience in Finance & Accounting operations.
- Proven leadership experience managing large teams across multiple F&A towers.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, compliance frameworks, and process governance.
- Experience managing client relationships at a senior level.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Experience in digital transformation: RPA, AI/ML use cases, workflow automation, analytics platforms.
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Leeds
Security Clearance Level: DBS
Internal Recruiter: Adrian
Salary: Up to £100k depending on experience
Benefits: Bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vac
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vac
ancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.