A newly formed Unitary Council is looking for a Place Finance Specialist for a period of 6 months initially.

 Duties and requirements: 

• Be a CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant with substantial experience and track record of effecting change.
• Work proactively and collaboratively to support our permanent finance team, offering skills and knowledge transfer to enable sustainable working methods in the medium term and to support the career development of our valued team members.
• Provide expert financial analysis, insight and advice into the development of robust business cases for transformational change in service delivery and to secure associated cost reduction/ income generation.
• Work proactively with service colleagues to develop ambitious but deliverable interventions to reduce cost and/or generate income at scale based upon your lived experience of meeting similar challenges in other complex organisations.
• Provide constructive challenge and advice to the Service, ranging from Executive Director, through to individual Budget Holder in order to maintain expenditure within approved budget.
• May be required to engage with elected members in relation to projects which you become involved in.
• Provide direct support to the Head of Finance Business Partnering in establishing consistent financial working practices and procedures to a high standard and a disciplined approach to financial evaluation and options appraisal.

This is an exciting role for an interesting time for the newly formed Unitary and they are looking for a strong leader in financial advisory service to assist in creating efficiencies in the Place Departments.