NHS Supply Chain
Principal Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst
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Principal Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst
Function: Finance & Trading
Location: Hybrid – within one of our offices (Nottingham, Alfreton, Wakefield, Daresbury or Sheffield)
Contract type: 6-months fixed term contract Salary: £56,476 Closing Date: Thursday 2nd July 2026
About the Role
NHS Supply Chain currently has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst to join during a period of transformation. This role will enable you to help the NHS prioritise patient care and achieve organisational objectives.
We are seeking an experienced Principal Finance Analyst who will lead a smaller team of analysts and deliver accurate financial forecasting, analysis, and reporting. You will collaborate closely with Finance Business Partners, Commercial, Procurement, and Operations teams, as well as external suppliers.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Acting as the senior escalation point for complex stakeholder or supplier queries
- Providing leadership coverage where required
- Driving continuous improvement across finance processes, systems, and outputs.
Daily Responsibilities
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Team Leadership:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of finance analysts
- Set priorities, allocate work, and ensure delivery of team objectives
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Financial Insight & Decision-Making:
- Serve as the first point of escalation for complex stakeholder, customer, or supplier queries
- Provide high-quality financial insight to senior stakeholders, translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations
- Support commercial decision-making and resolve complex queries through data-driven collaboration with commercial teams and suppliers
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Provisional Leadership:
- Deputise for senior management as required
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Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis:
- Develop financial models and perform scenario analysis to support strategic planning, growth, and decision-making
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Month-End & Income Recognition:
- Oversee month-end processes and ensure accurate income recognition
- Manage journals, reconciliations, and reporting on commercial income streams, such as rebates
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Sales & Margin Analysis:
- Conduct detailed sales, margin, and rebate analyses, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities
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Forecasting & Planning:
- Lead the coordination of financial forecasts, ensuring assumptions are clear, thoroughly challenged, and effectively communicated
- Support the production of the annual budget and wider financial planning processes
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Business Performance & Continuous Improvement:
- Drive and support business-wide financial performance improvement initiatives
- Enhance financial planning and reporting processes, tools, and controls, ensuring strong governance, accuracy, and consistency across outputs
What Do We Offer?
We are eager to reward your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work with more than just a competitive salary:
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Flexible Working:
Hybrid working opportunities allowing for both collaborative office presence and remote work.
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Rewards & Recognition:
Annual bonus schemes, long service awards, and colleague recognition programs that acknowledge your contributions.
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Holistic Benefits:
27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
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Career Development:
Commitment to developing your potential through in-house training and support, access to external qualifications, and flexible benefits programs encompassing:
- Life Insurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Income Protection
- Health Cash Plan
- Dental Insurance
- Additional pension contributions tailored to your preferences
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Community Engagement:
2 days of paid volunteering leave to contribute back to your local community.
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Health Benefits:
NHS discounts and discounts via the Blue Light Card.
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Work Life Balance:
Generous pension contribution (12% when you contribute 6%).
About NHS Supply Chain
NHS Supply Chain helps the NHS save lives and improve health by sourcing, delivering, and supplying healthcare products, services, and food.
As a part of the NHS family, we provide healthcare solutions to NHS trusts and other healthcare organisations across England and Wales. With a network of national distribution hubs and more than 1,000 suppliers, we process over 8 million orders annually to approximately 17,000 destinations.
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Skills and Qualifications Required
To excel in this role, you should possess the following:
- Proven experience in financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and commercial finance within a complex organisational structure
- Experience in leading, coaching, and developing teams
- Advanced analytical and financial modelling skills, with abilities to interpret complex datasets and create insightful outputs
- Experience with month-end processes including journals, reconciliations, and consolidated reporting
- Strong understanding of sales, margin, and income analysis
- Ability to influence and provide strategic financial advice to senior stakeholders
- Effective stakeholder management and business partnering skills across multiple functions
- Qualified accountancy designation (such as ACCA, CIMA, or ICAEW) or equivalent professional experience
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and MS Office
- Strong communication skills to present financial information clearly to non-finance audiences
- Proactive attitude and excellent organisational skills that enable effective time management and handling of competing priorities
- Continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on elevating accuracy, processes, and insight
Our Inclusive Commitment
At NHS Supply Chain, we strive to build an inclusive environment where difference is not just valued but celebrated. We believe that developing our colleagues' potential is critical to our success, so if this role resonates with your career goals but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Conflict with the application process? Our Talent Acquisition team are here to help. Contact careers@supplychain.nhs.uk for guidance and additional support.
We reserves the right to close the vacancy sooner, once we have received sufficient applications to form a shortlist. We encourage you to apply promptly if you wish to be considered for this position.
SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to manage NHS Supply Chain.
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