Head of Finance

The Head of Finance for the Surrey contracts portfolio is a senior finance leadership role, responsible for overseeing the financial health, planning, and performance of the Surrey portfolio. This role supports the delivery of strategic objectives, ensuring financial sustainability, efficiency, and compliance across all services within the contract. The Head of Finance will drive financial performance, advise on cost optimisation, and support the Group Finance Director with strategic financial insights and reporting to achieve HCRG Care Group's objectives. Although based in Surrey we are open to flexible and remote working however candidates would be expected to travel for meetings.Main Responsibility

• Leading and managing the finance function for Surrey contracts.
• Directly supporting operational leads and service delivery teams, providing expert financial advice.
• Leading financial planning, forecasting, and reporting activities for the Surrey portfolio.
• Developing and implementing robust financial processes and controls.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, contractual obligations, and HCRG Care Group policies.
Key responsibilities Strategic Financial Leadership
• Provide financial leadership, oversight, and strategic direction for the Surrey contract, aligning with Group objectives.
Contractual Relationship Management
• Oversee the financial elements of the contract, ensuring contractual obligations are met and maintaining strong relationships with commissioning bodies.
Budgeting and Forecasting
• Develop, implement, and manage the budget and forecast cycles, ensuring accuracy and alignment with service objectives.
  
  A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with at least 5 years post qualification experience.
• Significant experience in a senior finance role, ideally within the healthcare sector or a similar environment.
• Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders, including local authorities and NHS commissioners.
Desirable
• Knowledge of public sector finance and funding mechanisms.
• Experience in managing large, multi-million-pound portfolios with a strong focus on cost control and performance improvement.
• Previous experience in a matrix or multi-contract environment.
Other requirements:
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and present clear recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and develop a finance team to achieve high performance.
• Ability to think strategically, with a strong understanding of the broader organisational context.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build effective relationships at all levels.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail, with a commitment to compliance and process improvement.
• A flexible approach to changing priorities and operational needs, with an ability to manage workload effectively.
  
  We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


• Salary of between £70,000 - £85,000 with group pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission