£ 44000 Per year
Finance Manager
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Lead on the delivery of the business plan for financial transactions, in support of the wider organisational vision.
- Lead, drive and motivate a team of finance officers, to deliver exemplary standards in the provision and continuous improvement in financial transactions.
- Lead in the identification and clarification of customer needs to deliver process and technology changes, which drive efficiency and value for money.
- Lead in improving financial awareness and capability across the organisation, to promote the culture of empowering budget holders in line with financial regulations.
- Contribute to the production of reports for Income and external customers to manage organisational performance, maximise income and ensure compliance with Financial Regulations.
- Lead on service improvement projects or programmes to achieve best practice and organisational efficiency.
- Lead in maintaining currency on legislation changes and translating these into local policy and procedure, to identify and review changes in technology to assess possibility introduce.
- Working collaboratively across the organisation to deliver and maintain a high level of service to all Functions.
- Lead in identifying, mitigating, managing and resolving risks to minimise financial impact and loss to the organisation.
- Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Educated to RQF level 6 (Bachelor’s degree) or equivalent by experience. Project management accreditation/qualification, or equivalent by experience, would be desirable.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.
- Substantial experience and good working knowledge of income systems and demonstrable accounts receivable/debt collection experience, in a high volume environment.
- Ability to interpret complex and varied information and use it to drive continuous improvement.
- Strong leadership skills and behaviours, building a diverse team to achieve shared objectives.
- Experience of managing cultural and operational change in a complex environment.
- Good level of commercial awareness, with the ability to build effective working relationships at senior level, with internal and external customers, suppliers and partners.
- Ability to evaluate and support innovative approaches to improving service delivery and value for money, with a strong focus on performance and delivery.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to negotiate, constructively challenge and influence at senior level across the Council and external partners.
- Strong excel skills and ability to manipulate and interpret large data sets are essential for this role
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