Job Description

To lead and manage the Adults Social Care Finance Team within Corporate Finance, 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.

To support transformation and business led projects within the Adults Social Care Directorate, 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.

EXPERIENCE

* Significant experience of preparation of annual budgets and final accounts for local authority.

* Significant experience in a senior management role with direct management experience of leading professional and managerial groups in areas of service responsibility.

* Evidence of successful participation at senior management level in developing and delivering strategies, policies and programmes within relevant statutory and policy requirements.

* Evidence of formulating, leading and implementing successful strategies and programmes which cross service or processional boundaries.

* Evidence of leading and managing change in a large multi-disciplined organisation and taking a lead role in the financial aspects of service improvement and transformation programmes.

* Evidence of successful management and development of staff in a large multi-disciplined organisation, harnessing the strengths and talents of employees at all levels, including establishing effective performance objectives and appraisal to achieve corporate and service objectives.

* Strategic budget management in a comparable public sector organisation, managing significant financial resources and evaluating competing budget priorities within tight financial limits.

* A successful track record of building and developing partnerships and working effectively in co-operation with a wide range of internal and external bodies including both statutory and non statutory organisations and community groups.

* Effective working within a political environment, providing clear, balanced advice and guidance on issues that achieve the corporate and service objectives of the organisation.

* Evidence of a clear understanding of the legal, financial and political context of management within a Local Authority