Finance Manager - Local Authority
Cedar Recruitment
- South East London
- £62,000-70,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the Capital Finance Business Partnering team, managing a team of 3/4 employees.
- Work with services to develop business cases for large scale capital projects with a commercial mindset.
- Lead on financial modelling and investment/option appraisals for major projects for both revenue and capital.
- Lead on budget setting, monitoring and closing of Capital projects.
- Act as a key financial advisor providing strategic support and input on investments and projects.
- Support contract management and contract negotiations.
- Drive efficiency and value for money across the council.
- Ensure that the performance and development framework is effective for all staff.
- Ensure the effective implementation of corporate initiatives and transformation programmes that cut across the whole or part of the council's activities.
- Full membership of CCAB, (preferably CIPFA), CFA, or ACT with significant post qualification experience
- Experience of providing financial advice on major council projects.
- Extensive experience of closing accounts in a local authority
- Strong interpersonal and communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to communicate complex and diverse information effectively to a wide range of audiences both horizontally and vertically, financial and non-financial.
- Sound managerial skills with a track record of developing individuals and working in high performing teams.
- Ability to work effectively in a political environment and establish positive relationships with councillors, senior managers, staff, external partners and interest groups in a way that establishes confidence, credibility and trust.
- Ability to establish, develop and maintain effective relationships within organisations and externally with partner organisations.
- Well-developed IT skills (MS Office suite, financial systems, data Visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI).