Digital innovations like AI-powered forecasting and cross-cutting financial analysis reporting offer huge potential — but without a shift in ways of working, many NHS Finance Teams risk missing out on the full value of their investment.
At NHS SBS, our Consultancy team helps organisations reimagine not just individual processes, but the entire target operating model. We enable teams to move from reactive reporting to forward-looking insight — creating a Finance Function v2.0 that’s structured for smarter decisions, greater impact, and a future-ready workforce.
Services:
- Opportunity assessment
- Individual process improvement
- Target operating model redesign
- Finance System Process Optimisation
Our Finance Consulting Services
As NHS finance process specialists, we equip teams to become Finance v2.0 — optimised, forward‑focused and ready for the challenges ahead.
Opportunity Assessment
We use targeted data analysis and structured, facilitated workshops to identify opportunities to strengthen your performance, streamline operations, and enhance the impact of your Finance team.
Individual Process Improvement
Through process mapping and redesign, we help standardise and optimise financial workflows, ensuring your team makes full use of existing systems and technology.
Target Operating Model redesign
We work with you to reshape your NHS Finance function around today’s digital capabilities and tomorrow’s priorities, from co-design to implementation.
Finance System Process Optimisation
With 20+ years of implementing hundreds of financial solutions across the NHS, we align your policies and procedures to your finance system, helping it do more of the heavy lifting and deliver better outcomes
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View case studyEstablishing a unified, pioneering finance function across One Devon ICS
The Senior Finance Leadership in Devon came together across the whole ICS to leverage their new single financial solution and create a best-in-class, one-system integration finance team.
NHS SBS Consulting supported their vision by:
- Sharing the art of the possible and helping define key ways of working and transformation boundaries
- Visualising their future target operating at a process function level to engage their staff and to gather momentum for transformation
- Operationalising their vision – collecting detailed resource usage data to understand change impacts and inform the most appropriate Day One team structures and mechanisms for working
- Co-creating a Day X future state and the key transformation journey – through enablers of every kind that needed to be undertaken (technology, culture, people and process)
The creation of the Finance Intelligence Hub within the One Devon ICS footprint is the first of its kind in the NHS and represents a pioneering vision of future co-operation, standardisation and optimisation for finance teams everywhere.
Why Choose NHS SBS Consulting
We are NHS finance process specialists, helping finance teams deliver measurable savings and resilience
Results First
We have a strong track record of delivering process and function improvements at both organisational and system‑wide levels, from optimising Purchase Order use to reducing bureaucratic burden, through to helping optimise the first unified NHS Finance & Accounting system.
Part of the NHS Family
As a joint venture between the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) and Sopra Steria, we operate at the heart of the NHS, and our approach reflects NHS values, governance and ways of working, making it easier to deliver sustainable improvements for patients and staff.
Value Where it Matters Most
Our solutions are cost‑competitive and designed to deliver measurable value across financial performance, operational efficiency, and strategic outcomes, driving savings back into the NHS.
Simple to Contract
As part of the NHS family, we remove friction from onboarding — leveraging existing frameworks and infrastructure so you can contract quickly, compliantly and with confidence.
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