Associate Director of Finance - Income and Contracts

Associate Director of Finance - Income and Contracts

The Group Associate Director of Finance - Income & Contracts is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing income, contracting, and pricing functions across the BSW Hospitals Group, ensuring financial sustainability, maximisation of income, and robust contractual arrangements with commissioners and system partners.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will:o Lead the Group Income & Contracting function, driving consistency and best practice across all siteso Act as the senior finance lead for commissioning, contracting, and income optimisationo Provide expert advice to the Site Director of Finance, Group CFO, and Executive teams on income risks, opportunities, and regulatory frameworkso Enable a high-performing, data-driven approach to income recovery, contract negotiation, and system working.

The role will own the income inputs, assumptions, drivers for forecasting, linking closely with the Associate Director of Finance - Financial Planning and Analysis.

The postholder should expect to attend the different Trust sites to ensure a visible site presence is maintained.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

• CCAB Qualified with post qualification experience
• Significant senior finance experience in the NHS or a large complex public sector organisation
• Significant experience in Income and contracting, including NHS financial regime and payment mechanisms
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Strong analytical and financial modelling capability
• Experience managing and developing finance staff and ability to lead and develop high performing teams

£94,356 to £108,814 a yearper annum pro rata if part time