Senior Business Intelligence Finance and Commercial Manager

This exciting new post requires specialist expertise in providing high quality informatics to the North West London Pathology finance and commercial teams.

You will have a sound background in acute NHS provider management accounting principles and contract based financial flows whilst also having advanced SQL coding skills to design reports that accurately and consistently interrogate the complex NWLP SQL Server data warehouse.

You will provide management and, in conjunction with the Head of Business Intelligence NWLP, direction for the maintenance, delivery and development of data reporting for the commercial and finance teams in NWLP.

You will also provide, in conjunction with other members of the Business Intelligence team, secure and resilient databases and processes for the finance function.

This will require collaborative working as part of the NWLP BI team alongside the NWLP Commercial, Finance and Operations teams as well as the NWLP Pathology IT team. You will have a positive, "Can-do" approach as well as the ability to work calmly, consistently and accurately, especially so when there are tight deadlines.

The NWLP BI Team's workload is fast moving and so a flexible approach supported by strong self-management with assiduous attention to detail are essential qualities for undertaking this role.

Thus, as you succeed you will be able to take pride in contributing to the success of the multi-million-pound NHS Joint Venture that forms North West London Pathology.

• Reporting to the NWLP Head of BI, you will write and use SQL code to design and produce regular or ad-hoc, client-based, activity and income,reports to NWLP Execs, NWLP senior and operations managers alongside NWLP stakeholders at all levels up to and including General Managers.
• Thus, you must be skilled at producing clear, well-presented, often detailed, datasets that any level of recipient can use without further manipulation.
• These datasets include inter-alia both actual and projected activity as well as full year forecasting and modelling. Reports may be presented in Excel, Word or pdf documents and other applications.
• As many reports are dynamically linked directly to the NWLP data warehouse, thus allowing end users to perform data mining as needed, you will need to have good integration skills between applications and the SQL Server instance.
• You will also maintain the NWLP client, pricing and invoicing datasets in the data warehouse, working closely with the commercial teams.
• You will thus raise monthly invoice requests, from the NWLP data warehouse to the ICH Accounts Receivable team. Monitoring and reconciling invoices both raised and paid against these invoice requests is an essential follow up requirement.
• You will be in a team of 7 from the NWLP BI Team, working closely with the dedicated NWLP Finance, Commercial and IT groups. The post is at St Mary's Hospital working at least 3 days on-site.

Benefits include career development, flexible working, staff wellbeing programmes, staff awards and recognition scheme. We also have available benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

NWLP Induction

The NWLP induction will run on the first Monday of each month (provided it does not fall on a bank holiday) and includes laboratory training (for relevant laboratory roles). All new staff must attend the NWLP induction during their first week with NWLP.

For 2026, see below the start dates which you will be able to book once you have completed all your pre-employment checks.

Monday 2 March 2026 Monday 13 April 2026 Monday 11 May 2026 Monday 1 June 2026 Monday 6 July 2026 Monday 3 August 2026 Monday 7 September 2026 Monday 5 October 2026 Monday 2 November 2026 Monday 7 December 2026

Candidates are advised to consider these start dates before agreeing end of service date with their current employer.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

• First Degree in relevant IT field or equivalent
• MSc Information Systems, Computing or a related subject or equivalent experience.
• Management Qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continual professional development, especially in areas of Information Technology.
• Scientific Qualification or experience working in Pathology/Health care
• Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts professional registration
• Formal T-SQL Server Training
• Member of BCS

• Good level of technical skills, underpinned by theory and practice, in designing systems, handling sensitive data, automating data processing that will support data presentation and interpretation.
• Ability to interpret user's needs.
• Ability to organise/ prioritise own workload and workload of others
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal (including presentation skills)- able to identify key points from complex issues and explain them appropriately and with clarity
• Clear vision of health informatics as an enabler to modernisation.
• Use of SQL server 2019 or newer
• IT Project Management knowledge and experience
• Working within an ISO certified environment

• Demonstrable experience in healthcare informatics analytics
• Experience of, knowledge and understanding of mandatory reporting requirements, NHS data standards and definitions
• Good understanding of NHS governance and performance systems.
• Experience of communicating complex issues and data concepts to a range of people.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of information provision in a large complex pathology service or healthcare service.
• Comprehensive understanding of NHS services and knowledge of NHS context (e.g. Modernising Pathology services).
• Experience of managing projects.

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.