Finance Lead - Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom - Allen Lane

Allen Lane

Verified Company

Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Kingston and Sutton's shared finance service is an exciting and unique place to work.

We provide finance services to two vibrant boroughs in South West London enabling the team to draw on a wide pool of knowledge and experience and learn from activitiesacross both Councils.

Kingston and Sutton are both small London Boroughs, but both also have big ambitions.

Both boroughs already have lots of green space and the two Councils are committed to tackling the climate emergency and are developing plans for a more sustainable future.

Kingston is embarking on the redevelopment of its largest council housing estate to provide 2,170 new homes including a mix of social and private housing and is also developing a new community leisure centre in the town centre.

There is also a thriving businesscommunity in the Borough with a mix of big-name brands, including the UK headquarters of Lidl and Unilever, and smaller independent businesses.

We are looking to recruiting for a Finance Lead - Business Partner (Place).

Reporting into the Strategic Finance Business Partner (Place), the Business Partner will support the Place directorate within the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames.

The directorateincludes the Strategic Planning & Investment team, the Property team (including Facilities Management), Community Housing, and Regeneration & Economic Development.

Within Place, there is also a large capital programme that you will help support. The projectsrange from small maintenance works across the estate, to large scale builds and refurbishments. Your role will include supporting budget managers across the directorate with forecasting, year-end tasks, and using our financial system.

You will also assistwith rent reconciliations, monitoring project and grant spend, analysing costs for business cases, and collating information for internal and external documents and returns.

Key responsibilities include:

Provide financial management support and advice to service areas across the core financial cycle of budget setting, budget monitoring and closing of the accounts.
Act as a critical friend to the business and provide insightful financial analysis to support business improvement and change.
Provide high quality professional advice and support to budget managers
Translate financial and business activity data into insightful analysis, supporting budget managers with their inyear budget monitoring, capital programme monitoring, and mediumterm financial planning. This includes utilising key internal business systemsand external data sources

To be suitable for this role you need to be a Qualified accountant or studying towards relevant professional qualification (e.g. AAT, CIPFA, CIMA, etc), with experience of leading or providing financial support to change programmes and business improvementinitiatives.

You will have excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, with the ability to discuss and present finance concepts and processes in a range of ways with non-finance people.

You should be creative approach to problem solving and improvingdelivery of finance services and be open to change and embrace innovation.

This position is able to work flexibly between the office and homeworking, with a minimum expectation to be based in the office one day per week.

For more information about Kingston and Sutton's shared finance service, the interview processes and to see the job description please contact Jack Murphy at Allen Lane for a confidential conversation.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to Jack Murphy at Allen Lane by Sunday 5th February 2023.

The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages and should include why you are interested in the position and why you believe you are suitable.