Chief Finance and Compliance Officer for SEL ICB and SWL ICB

Job summary

We are looking for an exceptional candidate for a new Chief Finance and Compliance Officer role for South East London ICB and South West London ICB working together as an Integrated Care Board cluster. The cluster will serve a population of approximately 3.8 million, the second largest ICB footprint in England, across twelve London Boroughs which have a commissioning budget of £4.75 billion for South East London and £4.3 billion for South West London.

This is an exciting and challenging financial leadership role. The successful candidate will join as Chief Finance and Compliance Officer (CFCO) at a time when the two ICBs are refocusing themselves as strategic commissioning organisations to deliver the Government's three strategic shifts: from treatment to prevention, from hospital to community, and from analogue to digital.

The successful candidate's performance in the role will be crucial to the achievement of this purpose. They will need the technical grip and capability to deliver financial sustainability and ensure that statutory and national requirements are met from a finance, governance, compliance and audit perspective. They will also need the creativity and vision to identify and seize opportunities to use short, medium and long-term financial strategies, approaches to resource allocation and payor models to tackle health inequalities and promote the shift from hospital to community-based services.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Executive Officer is leading the recruitment to this role, which will become a full member of both ICB Boards and a core member of the Executive Team, providing professional leadership across a portfolio including:

Strategic and operational finance

Resource allocation

Corporate governance and services

Audit and Compliance

Capital planning and Estates

Human Resources

SIRO (Senior Information Risk Owner)

The CFCO will need to work with the ICB's executives and Boards as well as professional peers across the health and care system.

Securing this role will give the right candidate the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and acumen; not only to maintain compliance and financial sustainability in a complex, changing and challenging environment, but also to seize opportunities within this context to deliver what matters most: improved health and wellbeing for the 3.8 million people we serve.

The role will therefore attract candidates excited by the scale of the challenge and confident in their ability to deliver for local people. They will need significant experience in setting strategy and delivering transformation, ensuring the provision of robust assurance and governance, building trusted relationships with local communities and partners and creating a compassionate and inclusive culture for our people.

About us

In 2025, the boards of NHS South East London ICB and NHS South West London ICB took the decision to enter into a clustering arrangement. This means that we share a Chair, Chief Executive Officer and an Executive team, but we remain as separate, statutory organisations.

This also means that the ICBs will share some teams, who will be working across both organisations. Some teams will also be working across both geographical areas and integrated care systems.

This is a period of change for the NHS. The Government's 10 Year Health Plan presents an ambitious vision for a future NHS, with emphasis on the three 'shifts' - from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from cure to prevention - all underpinning the new neighbourhood health service.

ICBs are also changing, with a clear focus on strategic commissioning and delivering neighbourhood working.

This is an exciting time to work within our ICBs. We currently have the opportunity both to shape the future of our clustered organisations, and to be part of a radical transformation of care for the local people and communities across south London.

And while our two ICBs are different in some ways, improving lives for the people we serve is at the core of what we are both here to do.