Finance and Business Manager

The Grove Medical Centre is seeking an experienced Finance and Business Manager to join our senior management structure.

This is a new, varied role with responsibility for financial management, payroll, contracts and specified business-compliance functions. The successful candidate will work alongside our Practice Manager and report directly to the GP partnership.

The Practice Manager will lead day-to-day operations, staffing, human resources and service delivery. The Finance and Business Manager will provide specialist financial and commercial oversight, ensure key processes are controlled and documented, and help the partnership make well-informed business decisions.

An early priority will be to support a structured handover of finance, payroll, contracts, insurance, licences and compliance responsibilities and strengthening continuity.

Main duties of the job

Prepare budgets, cashflow forecasts, management reports and financial analysis for the partnership.

Monitor NHS, PCN and non-NHS income, expenditure, claims, reimbursements and clawbacks.

Lead payroll administration and monthly checking with Iris Payroll Processing, working with the Practice Manager as operational input and backup.

Oversee banking, payments, reconciliations, financial controls and appropriate authorisation arrangements.

Liaise with the practice accountant regarding VAT, PAYE, year-end accounts, projections, pensions and partnership changes.

Manage contracts, insurance, licences and liaison with legal, banking and external advisers.

Coordinate major contractual and compliance returns, including relevant NHS, CQC, DSPT and ICO requirements.

Monitor the financial performance of the practice dispensary.

Support PCN financial interfaces and the practice's responsibilities as employer and account holder.

Identify financial risks, efficiencies, funding opportunities and business-development options.

Supervise the finance support staff to ensure routine bookkeeping is appropriately delegated and checked.

The Grove Medical Centre is an established dispensing GP practice in Sherborne, Dorset, caring for approximately 13,000 patients.

We are committed to high-quality, personal and accessible patient care. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, nurses, allied health professionals, administrative, management and dispensary staff.

We are introducing a clearer management structure in which the Practice Manager and Finance and Business Manager have distinct but complementary responsibilities. Both roles are directly accountable to the partnership and work closely together to support a resilient, well-run and financially sustainable practice.