Our client is a large local government organisation and looking for an experienced Finance Manager to join their team on a permenant basis

You will

To identify, develop and support opportunities and initiatives to transform the delivery of financial services across the council.

• Assist in the preparation of information for officers, elected members and the public in relation to financial issues & collaborate with external partners and agencies as required.

• To progress all the key internal & external financial documents for your respective area of the portfolio; in accordance with council procedures & delegated level of financial authority, having regard to recommended & mandatory professional accounting practices.

• Undertake appropriate development work as required in response to changing financial regimes, new government legislation & initiatives and to determine the financial implications of policy changes/decisions.

• Manage & motivate staff assigned to the post, ensuring robust management and supervisory practices are undertaken, learning & development proactively supported and to provide coaching and mentoring as appropriate

Support and embedding culture of budget holder empowerment and delivery of value for money, including application of benchmarking.

• Lead teams on delivery of appropriate training and organisation-wide financial awareness and development.
• Provision of insightful predictive analytics, utilising, economic, social, & demographic data and commercial acumen to support business development and income improvements across the organisation.

• Lead on the co-ordination & production of the in-year monitoring reports, ensuring key monthly financial monitoring tasks assigned are achieved to a high quality, consolidating service finance business partner reports on a monthly basis and producing clear, high quality, easy to read corporate financial positions reports (both on a monthly exception and quarterly detailed basis).

• Lead on the collation of detailed revenue budgets including growth & transformation cost /efficiency programmes for inclusion within the council's budget & in line with the MTFP.

• Update & publish the annual budget monitoring timetable each year, briefing all service finance business partnering teams & ensuring service managers & director sign-off is achieved.

• To be responsible for the close management, support and development of junior staff across the team, which includes staff apprentices requiring coaching/mentoring.

• To be responsible for the management of resource allocation, maintaining the ability to plan for external support as needed such that any peaks and troughs of resource usage can be proactively managed.

• Work collaboratively with Business Partners and a range of accountants in the review & refresh of service based financial policies & plans (e.g. commuted sums) ensuring alignment with the financial framework, strategic objectives and at the same time promoting continuous improvement.