Royal Free is recruiting for a Head of Finance role to support the Royal Free Business Unit, this would ideally suit an ambitious and dynamic candidate who is looking for the next challenging role which will allow them to gain exposure of working in a large acute trust with a group model that is continually evolving and growing. This is an exciting time to be joining the Trust as it expands its group modeland with the finance department currently going through a transformation to build a best-in-class Group Finance function focussed on delivering all financial operational targets and continuously striving to exceed stake holder expectations. The Royal Free London group has recently expanded following the merger with North Middlesex Hospital NHST and now comprises four acute hospitals: Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and North Middlesex . The Barnet Business unit is a health unit within the Royal Free group, with its own local leadership teams responsible for managing its own delivery, quality, risk, and operational and financial performance.Royal Free Hospital is a large hospital with >600 beds, an operating expenditure budget of >£700m and >5,000 WTE’s. The hospital and associated satellite sites provide a wide range of acute, specialist and highly specialist services across all areas of group clinical priorities of cancer, cardiovascular and organ failure & transplantation Develop productive partnership working with other function leads to drive profitability and return on investment, developing short and medium term financial plans to support realisation of the group strategy; To maintain a professional reporting line into the Director of Financial Performance, whilst working closely with divisional and business unit management leads and directors, utilising professional judgement to progress business needs; To drive improvements in financial productivity within the divisions – leading on identification, advice and challenge for efficiency plans; To support directors, managers and clinicians in accessing and understanding financial information for their areas of budgetary responsibility. Provide support to build understanding of complex financial information; To support commercial propositions and to undertake or oversee the financial management of key contracts. Providing advice as necessary to leadership teams on any action(s) required to realise opportunities and mitigate risks arising; The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ In the Royal Free role, the post holder will have responsibility for supportingthe Director of Financial Performance and wider executive team tohelp informthe strategic operational and financial development of the business unit; andensure plans are in place and delivered to achieve the business unit strategy; underpinned by the delivery of short to medium-term objectives. The post holder will be responsible for leading the business partnering team andbe a critical interface between the group central finance and other functions, andthe business unit finance team. They will be pivotal in fostering a culture of high performance and ensuring the delivery of the annual planning/budget settingcycle at the business unit level and ensuring strong Financial Control across the business unit. The Trust is also operating in a financially challenged environment; therefore, the post holder will be a confident individual, that can influence and be the‘critical friend’ with the wider business unit leaders to ensure strong grip andcontrol and delivery of a very ambitious Financial Improvement Plan (FIP) target. This advert closes on Sunday 29 Jun 2025. Location : London, NW3 2QG