Finance Manager – Primary Care: Sponsorship Available

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)

Job summary

The ICB Primary Care Finance team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to cover a 12 month period of maternity leave from August 26 – August 27 on a full time or flexible basis. This Finance Manager post plays a crucial role in managing the financial operations and statutory reporting for Primary Care within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB). This position ensures effective budget planning, financial governance, and compliance with NHS policies to support high-quality healthcare services.The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders and leadership teams to deliver accurate financial reporting and support service redesign initiatives.

  • The position manages a37.5-hour workweek, reports to the Head of Primary Care – Financial Management, and oversees 2 Finance Officers.
  • Key responsibilities includestatutory reporting, budget preparation, financial planning, prescribing reporting and leadershipin Primary Care commissioning finance.
  • Essential qualifications include being CCAB qualified with at least 2 years NHS finance experience and skills in NHS finance regimes, communication, and financial analysis.

Main duties of the job

o Providing strong professional advice and support both within and across the ICB.

o Ensuring that the ICB commissions cost effective care for its population within the resources available so that value to patients and taxpayers is maximised.

o Responsible for statutory reporting requirements for Primary Care and Prescribing monitoring.

o Ensure that reported information is timely, represents an accurate view of performance, any financial risks understood by financial and non-financial managers.

o The post holder will act as the ICB Prescribing, LES, DES, Premises subject matter expert.

o Prepare the ICB Primary Care annual budget for key deliverables such as the prescribing, enhanced payments, cost pressures, procurement developments and WRP delivery plans.

o To set and communicate annual budgets with budget holders through the preparation of supporting schedules, presentations and approvals as appropriate.

o Provide financial input into primary care business cases for service redesign and cost saving initiatives.

o Monitor and update financial allocations for in year changes.

o Preparation of budget level reporting, commentaries, forecasts and associated supporting schedules.

o Deliver required working papers and month end reported information to the agreed timetable.

o Ensure detailed procedure notes are maintained and regularly reviewed for all areas within your control.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of using Integrated Single Financial Environment (ISFE2) for month end and year end processing
  • Experience of working with external and internal audit
  • Experience of interpreting technical financial guidance, and implementing process and policy change
  • Experience of setting annual operating plans and budgets
  • Experience of working with budget holders and preparing operating cost reports
  • Staff management, training, performance appraisal and career development
  • Ability to manage confidential and sensitive situations e.g. when dealing with staff, managers and public issues
  • Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and in other agencies

Qualifications

Essential

  • CCAB qualified
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills

Essential

  • Understanding of the NHS finance regime including statutory and administrative duties
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to take complex information and present simply and clearly for those without a finance background
  • Numerate with strong analytical and reasoning skills and the ability to identify and solve problems
  • Knowledge of ICB prescribing budgets and monitoring / WRP reporting of these
  • Knowledge of LES / DES enhanced schemes
  • Ability to work well with others in teams, networks and organisations

Desirable

  • Knowledge of NHS costing information, techniques and processes
  • Knowledge and understanding of local authority, voluntary organisations and other community partnerships and pooled funding processes
  • Knowledge of NHS property scheme financial regulations and relevance to GP premises
  • Involvement and monitoring of of procurements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 14 August 2026

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