Financial Performance Manager – Fitness and Wellbeing

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.  

As the Financial Performance Manager, you’ll collaborate with the Directors of Wellbeing and Trading Team to drive the financial performance of our fitness and wellbeing service lines and achieve our ambitious 2025 EBITDA goals. You’ll bring expertise in delivering financial improvements, ideally from a multi-site fitness and wellbeing or retail environment, to this vital role.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring growth plans to ensure initiatives stay on track or are effectively mitigated if not.

• Identifying efficiency opportunities and challenging costs to optimise our charity resources.

• Embedding a culture of continuous financial performance improvement.

• Providing commercial decision support and business insights.

• Appraising business performance and investment opportunities.

• Managing stakeholders across site leadership teams, regional management, and the Executive Committee.

• Supporting central initiatives on an ad-hoc basis, as needed.

To succeed as our Financial Performance Manager, you’ll have:

• ACA or equivalent accountancy qualification with at least 5 years post-qualification experience.

• Proven track record of driving financial improvement within a complex organisation.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge and negotiate effectively.

• Experience in FP&A or Finance Business Partnering.

• Exceptional communication, influencing, and analytical skills.

• High commercial acumen and the ability to identify actionable insights.

• Experience in the fitness and wellbeing industry, and across multiple sites is advantageous.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From free private healthcare to gym membership, a cycle to work scheme and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.