Head of Finance
Posted 4 days ago by Alliance Health Group, UK
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Head of Finance at Alliance Health Group will lead the finance team in Birmingham, ensuring the organization meets its financial requirements while managing various reporting divisions. This full-time on-site role involves overseeing financial controls, statutory accounts, and cash flow management, while partnering with operational leaders to drive performance and growth. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in similar organizations, particularly within regulated sectors like healthcare or insurance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop the finance team
- Own monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and board reporting
- Oversee statutory accounts, audits, tax, VAT, and regulatory reporting
- Maintain strong financial controls, processes, and risk management
- Cashflow forecasting, working capital management, and treasury oversight
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and medium-term financial planning
- Partner with operational and commercial leaders on performance and growth
- Assist with group structuring, intercompany accounting, and consolidation
- Support systems improvement, automation, and data quality initiatives
Key Skills:
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA fully qualified
- Proven experience in similar size or larger organisations
- Strong technical accounting knowledge (UK GAAP; IFRS a bonus)
- Experience managing and developing a finance team
- Solid understanding of cashflow, controls, and audit processes
- High level of Excel and financial systems competence
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other regulated sectors (highly desirable)
- Exposure to fast-growth, PE-backed, or entrepreneurial businesses (highly desirable)
- Group consolidation and intercompany accounting experience (highly desirable)
- Systems implementation or finance transformation exposure (highly desirable)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Join Alliance Health Group – Where Innovation Meets Excellence in Private Healthcare Alliance is reshaping the future of healthcare across the UK both privately and within the NHS. We put some of the best doctors at the heart of everything we do, whether that's patient journey management, insurance services, public health, large corporate and family plans. We’re creating a smarter, faster, and more personalised healthcare experience for our members. Backed by a trusted network of over 1,500 secondary care consultants we are on a mission to become the most clinically intelligent business in the UK. We’re growing fast and building cutting-edge tech that blends clinical expertise with data-driven innovation. If you're passionate about making a tangible difference in people’s health journeys and excited by the possibilities at the intersection of healthcare and technology — we want you on our team .
Role Description This is a full-time on-site role for a Head of Finance located in Birmingham. You will be responsible for ensuring the business meets it's financial requirements, running a small team with a number of reporting divisions.
Qualifications
- Lead and develop the finance team
- Own monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and board reporting
- Oversee statutory accounts, audits, tax, VAT, and regulatory reporting
- Maintain strong financial controls, processes, and risk management
- Cashflow forecasting, working capital management, and treasury oversight
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and medium-term financial planning
- Partner with operational and commercial leaders on performance and growth
- Assist with group structuring, intercompany accounting, and consolidation
- Support systems improvement, automation, and data quality initiatives
Essential
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA fully qualified
- Proven experience in similar size or larger organisations
- Strong technical accounting knowledge (UK GAAP; IFRS a bonus)
- Experience managing and developing a finance team
- Solid understanding of cashflow, controls, and audit processes
- High level of Excel and financial systems competence
Highly Desirable
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other regulated sectors
- Exposure to fast-growth, PE-backed, or entrepreneurial businesses
- Group consolidation and intercompany accounting experience
- Systems implementation or finance transformation exposure
Personal Attributes
- Highly numeric, organised and a self starter
- Comfortable with pace, ambiguity, and change
- Detail-oriented without losing sight of the bigger picture
- Confident working with senior leadership and C suite
- Pragmatic, solutions-focused, and low-ego