Senior Contracts and Finance Manager

Senior Contracts and Finance Manager

Closing date is 17 November 2025

Responsibilities

- Professionally oversee contract and budget management, ensuring accurate monitoring and reporting of all expenditures against the contracts and budgets.

- Oversee the update of relevant contract information and manage procurement of all BEM department contracts.

- Lead a team of finance administrators, a stores supervisor and stores personnel for all budget and transactional activities within the BEM department.

- Ensure BEM stores are adequately stocked and audited in line with service requirements.

- Work closely with hospital engineers and their teams to facilitate robust budget management and provision of accurate, quality data.

- Act as the key person for all matters pertaining to management of the BEM budget and contracts, and serve as the key advisor and point of contact to the Associate Director Estates and Facilities – Buildings, Maintenance and Engineering.

About us

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and more than 1,100 beds, the Trust focuses on quality service that is all about people – patients, staff, and partners. Recognised for outstanding care and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, CUH’s values – Together, Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high‑quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Job details

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full-time permanent contract unless you have:

- applied for a Graduate visa;

- successfully completed your course and applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of employment; or

- the Trust has agreed to sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

The advert will close at midnight on 17 November 2025.

Interviews are due to be held on 24 November 2025.

Benefits to you

At CUH, we support good working days with development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. We currently provide a reduced-cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from CUH, free Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites, and free bus route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. Parking on site is subsidised for eligible staff.

On CUH campus hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost. We have launched staff pod break spaces with free tea and coffee, a break space and a private outside area.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements such as part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times may be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Degree in property/estates management, business, contracts and financial management disciplines or equivalent.

- Postgraduate certificate or diploma in management or equivalent.

Experience

- Experience of contracts management including performance management.

- Experience of leading, negotiating and delivering robust contracts.

- Experience of financial management processes and reconciliation of contracts expenditure accounts.

- Experience of developing information resources, policy and procedures.

- Experience of project planning to achieve deadlines.

- Budget responsibility and management.

- Previous contracts management work experience at a management level.

- Line management, recruitment and performance management.

- Experience of working with staff and management at all levels including senior management.

- Contracts and budget management within NHS.

Knowledge

- A sound understanding of contract procurement and administration.

- Ability to work through concepts and techniques for budgeting, financial planning, projected contract cost and actual expenditure, variance analysis and financial.

- Detailed knowledge of NHS standards and guidance.

Skills

- Sound knowledge of key office software applications including Microsoft Office and Excel.

- Capability to work in a demand‑driven service.

Additional Requirements

- The ability to understand and behave at all times towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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