Assistant Finance Business Partner

Overview

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 18 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Finance department as an Assistant Finance Business Partner. We are looking for forward thinking, highly motivated finance professionals. This role is designed as a development role, suitable for either a first step into financial management or as a steppingstone to a more senior position. Your initial banding and progression would be linked to experience, qualifications and behaviours in line with the Trust's competency framework.

You would join a creative, challenging and supportive team environment.

We are seeking someone who shares the Trust’s values and can work with a wide range of people to enable high quality care for service users. Working within NHS finance offers opportunities for training and progression, a good pension scheme, paid holidays and flexible working options. The Trust supports inclusive working practices and offers hybrid home working and options for contracts with reduced hours.

The full details of the role are contained within the Person Specification and Job Description, attached. We welcome applicants from outside the NHS. For all candidates, we are most interested in attitude, aptitude and proven ability to learn.

If successful, you would assist the Finance Business Partner to provide finance support to clinical and corporate leads. The role includes month end reporting, variance analysis and supporting Budget Managers to interpret and understand their financial position. Candidates entering at band 4 level would receive full training and an opportunity to study, in line with the current policy.

As a senior 5 candidate, the Assistant Finance Business Partner role will allow you to experience all aspects of the department. We are a small team, so you will have opportunities to gain experience in income, planning, financial accounts and costing, with links to the wider health system. This is an ideal position for someone aspiring towards a more senior strategic finance position.

We are passionate about providing the very best care, and we are looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us. Our Trust values the diverse backgrounds of staff, service users, carers and families. We aim to support you in your role and care for your health and wellbeing. You will have access to training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as opportunities to engage in research.

We are proud of the difference we make to people’s lives and invite you to join us.

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, the main responsibilities include:

Supporting Directorates

• Produce high-quality Cost Centre Reports to a strict monthly timetable within policies and procedures agreed with the Finance Business Partner.
• Ensure input documents are complete and accurate in accordance with procedures and Audit requirements (analyzing confidential data such as payroll, purchase ledger, sales ledger, etc., and inputting into the system to meet monthly and year-end timetables).
• Work closely with budget managers to ensure understanding of performance variances. Support managers and clinical staff in developing or revising plans for out-turn forecasts. Use data to support a longer-term view of services.
• Collaborate with Budget Managers and finance colleagues to ensure budget reports and supporting schedules are accurate and robust. Include variance analysis, staff in post lists, and income and expenditure analysis. Use clear language for budget holders with service users in mind.
• Liaise with budget managers on payroll matters, provide accurate staffing costs, amend Authorised Funded Establishments as agreed, and ensure staff in post lists are updated and correctly coded. Translate WTE on reports into meaningful data such as shift patterns or unit counts.
• Respond to ad-hoc requests from Budget Managers for financial analysis of all aspects of the service, including staff costing analyses for skill mix reviews…