What's involved with this role: Interim Finance Manager - Children’s ServiceReference no: Kirklees 0008 D3C3 / 1Pay rate:.....
What's involved with this role:
Interim Finance Manager - Children’s Service
Reference no: Kirklees 0008 D3C3 / 1
Pay rate: Up to £395.90 per day PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 7 months
City: HUDDERSFIELD, West Yorkshire
Hybrid working
Standard DBS required for this role
A Finance Manager (Children’s Service) is required to contribute to the provision of a comprehensive, professional, financial support service to customers. To be an integral member of the Service Finance Manager Group and expected to help drive the delivery of a modernised service, through leading well, supporting the team, delivering to customers, instilling confidence and provide challenge options and solutions.
Key responsibilities:
Responsible for providing a comprehensive, high quality, financial service including the management and supervision of staff.
Be a visible leader, manage resources effectively, and be passionate about making a difference. In doing this you will be expected to provide and share information in a clear and concise manner to build understanding.
Have management responsibility for a finance team, be a positive role model and ensure commitment towards team goals and Service vision and priorities.
Performance manage your team and ensure delivery to customers.
Look to create positive working relationships and be committed to developing your team and yourself.
Support the Head of Service by being a member of the Finance Manager Group.
Provision of a comprehensive, high quality and timely financial management service that is directed and controlled in accordance with statutory, financial and Council procedures.
Achievement of corporate and Service objectives.
Continuation of high-quality financial processes, together with assisting in their improvement and further development through review, evaluation and challenge of practice and current expectations and by recommending and overseeing the implementation of change.
Aid the Service Director, and Head of Service in the development and maintenance of financial planning processes.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Member of a recognised CCAB professional accountancy body.
Experience:
Experience in the application of resource and business planning within a local authority or similarly complex organisation.
Experience of complex financial systems in a large organisation.
Experience of supporting the preparation of budgets, medium term financial and service plans and introducing appropriate mechanisms to monitor their activity.
Ability to advise and motivate senior managers and finance staff and prioritise workloads.
Experience of supporting managers in producing sound and robust business cases for the investment of resource in the service.
Experience of helping service managers in identifying and managing risk.
Experience of giving advice on financial issues to managers and other stakeholders.
Experience of managing the preparation of annual accounts.
Knowledge:
An awareness of the current issues affecting local government and the financial implications for local authorities.
Knowledge of professional accounting standards.
Skills & Abilities:
Ability to support managers in the development of finance services.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Job Ref: Kirklees 0008 D3C3 / 1
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
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