Principal Finance Business Partner

Principal Finance Business Partner

Function: Finance

Location: Nottingham/Hybrid

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £64,062 with the potential to £75,367 over 3 years

Closing Date: 17th March 2026

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Principal Finance Business Partner to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.

The Principal Finance Business Partner works with third party providers, insourced categories and other budget holders to drive astute financial and commercial decisions for complex, multi-million-pound areas of the business.

You will have responsibility for reporting and analysing your area of responsibility, driving and supporting the operational business to deliver against financial objectives. You will be required to provide advice to the business on complex issues, provide critical financial input and advice for annual planning, periodic forecasting, as well as long term and scenario planning. The role also provides vital financial input and expertise into strategic business cases, ensuring the financial case is robust and realistic.

You will have responsibility for financial contract management of third party providers, ensuring cost efficient service delivery.

Every day you will …

• Develop business cases or lead feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to support the development and continuous review of business cases.
• Translate business objectives into clearly defined business cases, costs, and schedules to support growth in the business.
• Provide specialist financial decision support to senior management, resolving complex or contentious queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions.
• Manage a segment of the organisation's data collection and analysis activities.
• Develop and deliver financial guidelines and protocols to ensure the company complies with regulations and good financial practice.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in‑house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well‑being offering 1 day of paid well‑being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Extensive experience in determining and analysing trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision‑making.
• Works with full competence to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Demonstrates to an advanced level an ability to analyse potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected…