Senior Finance Business Partner

Job title: Senior Finance Business Partner
Salary: From £70,000 dep on exp + benefits
Location: London, NW1/hybrid, 2 - 3 days a week in the office
Job type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5

The role

Join one of the UK's leading private hospitals and help shape the future of patient care! We're looking for a commercially minded Senior Finance Business Partner to drive growth, improve efficiency, and maximise surplus for reinvestment into the hospital.

As part of the management team, you'll lead financial planning and forecasting, pinpoint opportunities at a procedure level, and work closely with clinicians and managers to deliver results for the Care Group. Experience in a hospital setting is ideal, but not essential - what matters most is your ability to turn financial insight into meaningful impact.

About us

Established in 1932, The London Clinic is one of the UK's largest private hospitals, with eight state-of-the-art facilities in the heart of London's medical community around Harley Street. As a charity, we reinvest in cutting-edge treatments, technology, and facilities to benefit our patients, staff, and the wider community.

We offer a comprehensive range of services, from complex medical and surgical procedures to specialist cancer care. The London Clinic is known for its supportive, collaborative culture where every contribution is valued, guided by our core values: We go further, We work as one, We personalise care.

Key Duties

• Own the Care Group P&L from a finance perspective, driving optimal financial performance from the top to bottom line.
• Deliver the Care Group P&L Plan/Forecast inputs & sensitivities to central FP&A Team ensuring underlying integrity of assumptions, full buy in and ownership of the Care Group management team.
• Be the financial point of contact to the Care Group providing business partnering as required including, financial input and screening of Business Cases (Growth, resources including Capex), assessing Marketing program ensuring best ROI for the respective Care Group.
• Assess strategically the long-term service model of the care group, providing financial advice and analysis as required. Communicate emerging trading risks and opportunities, proposing and delivering strategies to mitigate or maximise these as appropriate.
• Developing strong relationships built on trust with the Care Group senior leadership team and influencing them to make excellent financial decisions, and supporting them through the process.
• Own the care group Establishment Model (staffing plan tool) output, challenging resource requests ensuring optimal staffing levels are planned, follow up on variances.

Skills and Experience

• ACCA, CIMA or ACA qualified, with significant post qualification experience.
• Demonstrable evidence of driving tangible financial improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management/relationship building skills.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Able to translate financial information in plain English.
• Prior successful financial ownership of a P&L, or lines within it (e.g. Revenue, Cost Centre).
• Advanced Excel skills, and Power BI, and an affinity for automation to provide analysis.
• High emotional intelligence and excellent communication skills, able to discuss and present financials to a non-financial audience.
• Comfortable spending time with clinicians as well as with spreadsheets.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including flexible working and great career opportunities. Our core benefits are:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Contributory pension scheme (total contribution up to 20%)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life assurance
• Travel season ticket loan
• Family friendly benefits
• A range of retail discounts
• Excellent career development; with clear career pathways and access to further education

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting all adults at risk, children and young people by implementing robust safer recruitment practices during our selection process. Pre-employment checks are undertaken in accordance with industry standards and regulations, and successful applicants may be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). If you would like further information about our safer recruitment policy then please contact a member of our recruitment team.

​The London Clinic is proud of its diverse workforce and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We absolutely welcome applicants from underrepresented groups; if you think you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply - we would love to hear from you regardless of your background.