Head of Finance - Commissioning

Interim Accountancy Recruitment Solutions

Interim Head of Finance – Commissioning Immediately Required

Location: South Wales

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)

Length of Contract: TBC

Daily Rate: £358.65 via Umbrella

Vacancy: 86880

Day to Day Duties: Full JD available upon request

• Lead for the Trust in managing Trust Provider activity and agreements (for out of area patients). This relates to WHSSC, LHBs and non welsh commissioners. This includes Long Term Agreement (LTA’s), high-cost exclusions and non-contracted activity and individual patient funding request panel authorisations.
• Monitor and support internal reporting of Trust provider activity for trust residents for benchmarked internal performance management.
• Lead for the Trust in managing financial commissioning aspects of Trust activity. This relates to WHSSC, LHBs and non welsh commissioners. This includes Long Term Agreement (LTA’s), high-cost exclusions and non-contracted activity and individual patient funding request panel authorisations.
• Lead for the financial flows and reserves management of commissioning and provider arrangements with WHSSC and LHBs.
• Professionally advise the Trust in the preparation, presentation and assessment of clinical service development business cases submitted to WHSSC.
• Lead the finance departments costing and benchmarking team and develop data management improvement, statutory reporting, performance management support and business intelligence.
• Take lead responsibility on a day-to-day basis of the management of the Finance Commissioning and Costing & Benchmarking Team, including workload planning and prioritisation, whilst incorporating and promoting new ways of working and instigating change management techniques where required.
• Deputise for the two Assistant Directors of Finance and Deputy Director of Finance as appropriate and required including representation at the WHSSC Management Group, SLA meetings with WHSSC and professional forums and other meetings

Essential Skills:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• NHS Experience

To be considered for this position and for further information on this and other roles please send an updated CV to or call Peter Roberts or Max Clifford on