Financial Director

£110,000 - £120,000 + excellent benefits South West | Hybrid working We are partnering with a large and complex healthcare organisation to appoint an exceptional Finance Director. This is a high-profile leadership opportunity with responsibility for commercial finance across a substantial operational division. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, helping operational leaders make better decisions, improve financial performance and deliver a significant transformation agenda. This opportunity will suit a commercially minded healthcare finance leader who thrives on influence, challenge and change. The Opportunity

• Lead a high-performing finance team and develop a genuine finance business partnering culture.
• Partner with senior operational leaders, providing insight and constructive challenge to improve commercial and financial performance.
• Take ownership of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and delivery of the agreed financial plan.
• Drive revenue growth, margin improvement, cost optimisation and operational efficiency programmes.
• Provide senior financial oversight for business cases, investment decisions, tenders and strategic initiatives.
• Lead financial and operational transformation, maintaining a quantified improvement pipeline and tracking benefits realisation.
• Identify emerging commercial and financial risks early, ensuring clear corrective actions are implemented.
• Strengthen management information and commercial reporting to enable faster, better decision-making. About You You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a strong record of finance leadership in a complex, commercially focused environment.
• Significant experience in commercial finance, finance business partnering or Finance Director-level roles.
• Experience leading and developing finance managers or Heads of Finance.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and financial modelling expertise.
• A track record of holding operational teams to account for financial performance.
• Experience of bids, tenders, contract procurement or complex commercial arrangements.
• Proven delivery of transformation, cost efficiency and margin improvement programmes.
• The credibility to influence senior operational and executive stakeholders.
• The ability to translate complex financial information into clear, practical commercial insight. Must Have Experience
• Healthcare and workforce-intensive environment.
• Complex contracting and commissioning arrangements.
• Workforce establishment, rostering and agency or bank cost management.
• Contract mobilisation, demobilisation or service transformation. Why Apply?
• Senior leadership role with significant organisational influence.
• Large-scale and commercially complex operating environment.
• Major transformation and performance improvement agenda.
• Broad exposure to senior operational and executive stakeholders.
• Competitive salary of £110,000 - £120,000 plus benefits. Due to the confidential nature of this appointment, further information will be shared with suitable candidates following an initial discussion.