Sellick Partnership is pleased to be supporting Bristol City Council with their search for a Finance Manager on a permanent basis.
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with prior experience to take the next step in their finance career, as part of a highly supportive and values-driven finance team.
Applicants must be CCAB qualified with local authority Financial Management experience, specifically Adults Social Care. You will demonstrate an ability to deal effectively with a range of stakeholders who have varying degrees of understanding of financial matters, and possess expertise in budget preparation, analysing and monitoring complex budgets, project accounting, business cases and benefits realisation.
Position: Finance Manager - Adults Social Care
Salary: £53,000 - £57,000
Location: Hybrid/Bristol
Key responsibilities:
Identify, develop and support opportunities and initiatives to transform the delivery of financial services
Progress key internal & external financial documents for your respective area of the portfolio
Manage & motivate staff, ensuring robust management and supervisory practices are undertaken, learning & development proactively supported and to provide coaching and mentoring as appropriate
Support and embed culture of budget holder empowerment and delivery of value for money, including application of benchmarking
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
Lead on the collation of detailed revenue budgets including growth & transformation cost & efficiency programmes
Update & publish the annual budget monitoring timetable, briefing all service finance business partnering teams & ensuring service managers & director sign-off is achieved
Develop & support on the detailed revenue and/or capital budgets for inclusion within the budget, in liaison with Heads of Service & Business Partners, and in line with the MTFP, Capital Strategy & transformation, efficiency programmes
Ensure service managers/directors have a thorough understanding and acceptance of their detailed budgets through workshops and other similar processesHow to apply:
To apply, please submit your CV or contact Kathryn Evans in the Sellick Partnership Derby office for a confidential chat.
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