- You will build strong networks to maximise insight and innovation, influence corporate directors' decision making on financial and wider performance whilst supporting the S151 responsibility to achieve value for money.
- Ensuring effective governance and risk management strategies are in place to enable excellent financial management. Ensuring highest standards or probity and compliance for your designated services area
- Play a key role in wider collaboration, working closely with regional finance groups, CIPFA and relevant bodies to assess national policy decisions.
- Represent the Corporate Director of Resources as Section 151 Officer, ensuring thorough administration of financial affairs.
- Working strategically with the Section 151/Deputy S151 Officer on all financial risks, managing solutions and escalating concerns in a timely manner.
- Lead and manage the financial advice and support to Members and Officers and encourage finance staff, to drive performance improvements in financial management within directorates, by building effective relationships to ensure a high level of financial literacy across the organisation.
- Support the Directorate in conducting financial negotiations with contractors and partners, ensuring the best financial solution without compromising on quality of service.
- Build strong working relationships with Corporate Directors and Directors to ensure Finance have an influential seat at the top table at SLTs and beyond, and are able to challenge, influence and inform decisions made, to achieve positive financial solutions.
- Oversee the delivery of a proactive financial management function; ensuring delivery meets the directorates' expectations. Provide necessary advice, support, scrutiny, and challenge as a Critical Friend to services to embed sound financial management, monitoring and forecasting across the year.
- Ensure all reports presented by a directorate contain comprehensive financial information that accurately reflects the financial implications of the options under consideration and are fully understood by the directorate.
- Support the delivery of the Strategic Finance functions activities, including the development of the Medium-Term Financial Strategy for both revenue and capital across the Council, work collaboratively with finance colleagues.
- Oversee and contribute to the closure of accounts process for the designated service areas.
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- Expert knowledge and understanding of strategic financial management and financial regulatory frameworks in a public sector setting.
- Track record of forging highly motivated and performing teams from diverse backgrounds with the ability to lead and influence multi-disciplinary senior managers in achieving their objective's.
- Evidence of engaging and working with Members, senior leaderships teams and key stakeholders promoting good financial management practice.
- Experience of delivering improvement in a financial setting with a strong delivery focus.
- You will have the ability to plan and monitor projects in line with agreed timescales and outputs with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to present complex issues clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
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Head of Strategic Finance - London Area, United Kingdom - London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Description
Head of Strategic Finance – Children's and Schools
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Service: Finance Audit & Procurement
Responsible for: Up to 5 direct reports depending on service area.
Salary: £79,000 - £87,000
Closing date: 12th May
Job Summary
Do you want to lead on the strategic resource planning for an ambitious local authority? The London Borough of Tower Hamlets are in a period of stability and now need to shape the leadership and ensure we maximise the impact of outcomes on service delivery. We are recruiting x3 Heads of Finance posts within the Adults, Children's, and Communities directorates.
The Head of Strategic Finance Children and Schools leads the finance business partnering team that supports children social care and education services including schools. The post will work directly with the relevant Corporate Director and attend the service's Directorate Leadership Team meetings to provide financial advice. Attendance at school boards and meeting with schools is required. The post is responsible for the correct accounting of the Dedicated Schools Grant, providing services to schools and forecasting financial demand for children's social care services.
You will be a key member of the financial leadership team representing the Director as necessary and take responsibility for the development of a sector leading, highly performing and respected finance team, leading on a continuous programme of activities to maintain a committed and motivated workforce that promotes financial skills throughout the authority. Lead on providing high-quality financial accounting, management accounting advice and support to designated service areas (including areas for such as HRA, Schools as required) to influence and inform decision making, embed sound financial management and underpin service delivery and performance.
Role Requirements
Person Specification
Your full application will be inclusive of a CV and supporting statement.
Closing date: 12th May
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets are working in partnership with Hammond Clarke Group for the successful appointment of the Head of Strategic Finance - Children's and Schools role. For further information regarding these posts, please contact Chris Macdonald – Head of Permanent Recruitment, Public Sector at Hammond Clarke – -
