Are you an experienced Finance Manager looking to join a nurturing and supportive local government organisation?
If so, this job may be for you. Read now to find out!
The successful candidate will lead a Capital Finance Business Partnering team, managing a team of 3/4 employees, developing business cases for large scale capital projects with a commercial mindset.
Leading on financial modelling and investment/option appraisals for major projects for both revenue and capital. Budget setting, monitoring and closing of Capital projects.
hybrid working available, with there being a mandatory requirement of one day per week in the office (Flexibility available for candidates who live further away).
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Supporting contract management and contract negotiations.
- Ensure the provision of systems and procedures that enable effective budgetary control; ensure that variations and emerging financial pressures are drawn to the attention of budget managers, with options and plans for their resolution.
- Provide senior expert specialist advise and to act on behalf of the organisation on high-level complex matters, ensuring the provision of expert advice and guidance to all levels of staff, which is appropriate, accurate and timely, in relation to all aspects of the finance function.
- Advise on investment and funding strategies including investment risk and performance.
- Inform a strategic vision for the service that enables the organisation to meet its future challenges, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Prepare and present complex and diverse informative, high quality reports to members and other senior stakeholders that inform service and corporate consequence action decision making.
- Ensure statutory and other returns are submitted accurately and on a timely basis. Prior to submission ensure senior management sign off and produce an appropriate supporting paper setting out the approach to development of the return.
- Monitor and control the monthly financial reporting process ensuring forecasts are accurately included on the system or promptly escalating relevant issues backed up with appropriate analysis.
- Develop appropriate financial models and analytics to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and other factors affecting resource requirements.
Personal Requirements:
- Full member of CCAB, (preferably CIPFA), CFA, or ACT with significant post qualification experience.
- Strategic management experience, including translating organisational drivers into strategic objectives, longer term plans, new ways of working and specific outcomes, for a service in a large public sector organisation.
- Experience preparing business cases for investment decisions including the ability to apply options appraisals and evaluation techniques.
- Evidence of successful resources management in a multi-disciplinary environment, business planning, quality and performance management including formulating budgets.
- Well-developed IT skills (MS Office suite, financial systems, data Visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI).
Working Hours: 9:00am – 17:00pm / Mon – Fri
Salary: £62,457.00 – £70,401.00 + Benefits
Key Words: Finance Manager, Capital Projects, Budgeting, Planning, Strategy
