About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
The post holders will provide financial business partnering support to front line service areas, with some opportunities to work on both revenue and capital areas within services where relevant.
Our Senior Finance Officers are required to work flexibly in line with the business need, and the reasonable requests of senior management, to support the scrutiny and challenge of financial information provided by services. In carrying out their role, they are expected to facilitate sound financial management by Budget Managers, acting on behalf of the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) Management Team as required. They will be expected to deliver clear and focussed oral and written advice to Budget Managers as required, based on sound financial management principles.
The post holders will be expected to work towards building strong collaborative relationships across relevant services, to support the delivery of meaningful financial analysis underpinning business improvement and informed operational decisions, and to help support and strengthen the Council’s resilience to the financial challenges ahead. Working closely with finance colleagues within and outside of business partnering, you will help provide financial management support to service areas across the core financial cycle of budget setting, budget monitoring and Closing of the Council’s accounts as appropriate.
You will facilitate the efficient, timely and controlled processing of adjustments to budgets and actuals from virements and journals, and support the reconciliation of balance sheet items, helping to secure the accuracy of the accounting records. Working with Finance colleagues, the post holders will contribute to the management of financial risk to protect the financial health of the Council and help to ensure financial planning is robust and aligned to Council priorities.
About Us The Shared Finance Service ambition is to add value and inspire success. This role is part of the Shared Finance Service (SFS) collectively responsible for delivering SFS activities to realise this ambition. The role provides support to the Finance Business Partners, Seniors FBPs and Strategic FBPs to deliver financial support and advice to budget managers across the Council, with the aim of enabling them to manage their budgets in the increasingly challenging financial environment. Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:
1. A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-31 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade
2. Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
3. Two volunteering days per year
4. Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)
5. Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
6. Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
7. Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
8. Interest free season ticket loans
9. Local Government Pension Scheme
10. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
11. Zip car scheme
12. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support