HEAD OF FINANCE - HOMES & COMMUNITIES Hillingdon Contract £538.37 per day PAYE or £750 per day limited paid via Umbrella Company inside IR35 Our client is looking for an experienced Head of Finance – Homes and Communities. 1. To lead and manage the Homes & Communities Finance Teams within Financial Management, supporting, Homes & Communities, advising on relevant aspects of strategic finance and business partnering, alongside comprehensive financial direction, support and guidance to a range of Council’s services and Directorates. 2. To support transformation and business led projects within Homes & Communities, ensuring that timely and robust financial information is provided to support with decision making and take an active role in shaping outcomes of projects. In addition, ensuring that budgets are realigned to deliver savings targets, reporting timing differences in delivery. 3. To ensure that Senior Management and their budget managers are supported to deliver their accountabilities for budget management and that directorates comply with Financial Standing Orders and all other financial policies and procedures as directed by the Director of Corporate Finance. 4. To provide financial leadership and strategic advice to directorates to enable them to develop robust financial plans and ensure that the future needs of the service are reflected in the Council’s medium term financial forecast (MTFF). 5. To ensure the provision of high-quality financial advice and accurate and timely financial information to Corporate Directors, Heads of Service and budget managers across the directorates. To promote and facilitate a culture that supports a self-service approach to budget management with strategic financial management support through a business partnering model. 6. Lead on the financial modelling of demand led budgets, within Homes & Communities to ensure robust forecasts are established, working in conjunction with relevant senior managers within the Service areas, and to use the trend data to inform MTFF decision making. 7. To support the requirements of the statutory accounting process, external audit process and legislative changes that may have financial impact on directorates 8. To maintain effective working relationships with colleagues within the Finance directorate to proactively support the production of strategic financial information, medium term financial plans and the training and development of the wider Corporate Finance service. 9. To establish effective external working relationships with key stakeholders within the community, government, professional bodies and other appropriate public and private bodies to ensure the service has the knowledge and expertise to continuously improve its performance. PLEASE ONLY apply if you have the necessary skills, experience and expertise. The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer