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About the Role

The Finance Manager will provide comprehensive financial management services to DMC Healthcare, supporting the organization's delivery of NHS community services and outsourced/insourced secondary care contracts. This hands-on role requires strong technical accounting skills, commercial awareness, NHS-sector understanding, and the ability to support operational managers with financial decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including income and expenditure reports, balance sheet reconciliations, cash flow analysis, and variance commentary.
• Produce clear financial reports for senior management, service leads, budget holders, and the Board.
• Monitor financial performance across various healthcare contracts, identifying risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide meaningful variance analysis, explaining differences between actuals, budgets, and forecasts.
• Maintain financial reporting timetables and ensure deadlines are met for internal, commissioner, and external reporting.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate completion of journals, accruals, prepayments, and income recognition.
• Lead the annual budget-setting process for relevant departments, services, and contracts.
• Prepare rolling forecasts and reforecasts, highlighting financial risks and expected performance.
• Support the development of financial plans for NHS contracts, new services, and service redesign.
• Prepare and maintain short-term and medium-term cash flow forecasts.
• Monitor cash balances, expected receipts, supplier payments, and other key working capital movements.
• Work with the finance team to ensure timely invoicing, credit control, and debt management.
• Support financial management of NHS contracts, including community services and elective care.
• Assist with contract finance schedules, activity-based income reporting, and contract reconciliations.
• Act as a finance business partner to service managers, operational leads, and senior managers.
• Provide advice and challenge to budget holders on financial performance and expenditure controls.
• Translate financial information into clear insights for non-finance colleagues.
• Manage, support, and develop a small finance team, ensuring clear objectives and high standards.
• Oversee day-to-day finance operations, including purchase ledger, sales ledger, and payment processing.
• Maintain and improve financial controls, policies, and procedures across DMC Healthcare.
• Ensure compliance with internal authorisation limits, procurement processes, and financial governance requirements.
• Support audit preparation and respond to audit queries.
• Use finance systems effectively to produce accurate reporting and improve efficiency.
• Develop and maintain reporting templates, dashboards, and analysis tools.
• Identify opportunities to streamline finance processes.
• Comply with DMC Healthcare policies and procedures.
• Maintain a strong understanding of DMC Healthcare’s NHS service delivery model.
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of the organisation, including supporting ad hoc projects.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level.
• Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant or qualified by significant relevant experience.
• Relevant accounting qualification or active study towards ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CIPFA, or equivalent.
• Strong general education, including numeracy and literacy.
• Experience preparing monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Experience managing cash flow, working capital, invoicing, credit control, or payment processes.
• Experience supporting budget holders and explaining financial information to non-finance colleagues.
• Experience managing or supervising finance staff.
• Strong experience with Excel, finance systems, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Experience working to month-end and year-end deadlines.
• Experience improving finance processes and internal controls.
• Fully qualified accountant (desirable).
• Evidence of continuing professional development (desirable).
• Experience of NHS finance, healthcare finance, commissioner reporting, or contract finance (desirable).
• Experience in the NHS, independent healthcare sector, community services, diagnostics, outpatient services, or insourced/outsourced clinical services (desirable).
• Experience of NHS contracts, commissioner reporting, activity-based income, or healthcare service costing (desirable).
• Experience supporting tenders, business cases, mobilisation of new services, or contract profitability reviews (desirable).
• Experience working in a multi-site or fast-moving healthcare environment (desirable).

Skills

• Strong technical accounting skills
• Commercial awareness
• NHS-sector understanding
• Financial management
• Budget setting
• Monthly management accounts preparation
• Cash flow management
• Financial reporting
• Forecasting
• Variance analysis
• Financial decision-making
• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Risk identification
• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Organisational skills
• Excel proficiency
• Finance systems proficiency
• Reconciliation skills
• Integrity
• Discretion
• Professionalism

Location

• Head Office - London, SE15

Work Type

• Full Time

Experience Level

• Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant or qualified by significant relevant experience
• Experience preparing monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis
• Experience managing cash flow, working capital, invoicing, credit control, or payment processes
• Experience supporting budget holders and explaining financial information to non-finance colleagues
• Experience managing or supervising finance staff
• Experience working to month-end and year-end deadlines
• Experience improving finance processes and internal controls
• Experience of NHS finance, healthcare finance, commissioner reporting, or contract finance (desirable)
• Experience in the NHS, independent healthcare sector, community services, diagnostics, outpatient services, or insourced/outsourced clinical services (desirable)
• Experience of NHS contracts, commissioner reporting, activity-based income, or healthcare service costing (desirable)
• Experience supporting tenders, business cases, mobilisation of new services, or contract profitability reviews (desirable)
• Experience working in a multi-site or fast-moving healthcare environment (desirable)

Education Level

• Degree level
• Relevant accounting qualification or active study towards ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CIPFA, or equivalent

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave, in addition to bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Access to NHS Discount Scheme
• A collaborative and inclusive team culture across clinical and technical functions

About the Company

• DMC Healthcare supports the organisation’s delivery of NHS community services and outsourced/insourced secondary care contracts.