Deputy Director of Financial Performance & Oversight
NHS EnglandAny North West site, North West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with NHS England based in Any North West site. The advertised salary is £112,782 to £129,783. Applications close on 12 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
The NHS England North West Regional Finance Team provides financial leadership, oversight and assurance across a complex health system with an annual ...
As Deputy Director of Financial Performance and Oversight, you will lead assurance and oversight of financial performance across 30 NHS trusts and foundation trusts and 3 ICBs, supporting the Director of Finance to deliver the regional financial position and longer-term financial sustainability.
You will assure coherent and credible annual plans, monitor delivery, draw insight from complex financial and operational information and ensure timely, high-quality reporting and briefing. You will proactively identify and manage key risks and issues, agree mitigating action and make evidence-based recommendations on escalation, improvement support or regulatory intervention where required.
Working directly with Board-level leaders, you will use sound judgement, credibility and highly developed influencing and negotiating skills to provide constructive challenge, secure accountability and support delivery of agreed plans.
As a senior leader in the regional finance team, you will lead the Financial Performance, Oversight and Intervention team, build effective relationships across organisational boundaries, contribute to wider regional priorities and cross-directorate initiatives, and deputise for the Director of Finance as required.
This is a high-profile opportunity to influence decision-making at scale and improve value for patients and taxpayers.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Essential: - Qualified Accountant and CCAB member
Essential: - Experience of working at a senior level and leading a finance team; - Proven experience at a very senior level, including providing informative reporting on finances and impact, delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
How this role compares
We hold 1,049 NHS vacancies in North West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 91% of them.
There are 11,611 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,388 of them in North West.
You have 7 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 30 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
NHS England has 32 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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How to apply
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