Senior Finance Business Partner - Kettering, United Kingdom - North Northamptonshire Council

North Northamptonshire Council

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Kettering, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the role

Are you up for the challenge? We are looking for exceptionally talented and enthusiastic individuals to join our finance team.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a developing organisation and be an integral part of shaping and growing our new team.

The role of the Senior Finance Business Partner is to provide high quality financial support to Executive Directors, Assistant Directors and Service Managers.

This is a high-profile role and requires good management skills to ensure finance services provided are professional and customer focused.

What will you be doing?
We have two Senior Finance Business Partner roles:

Senior Finance Business Partner - Communities and Public Health

This role will be responsible for supporting the front-line services of Communities and Public Health, whilst also supporting the Strategic Finance Business Partner in the effective management and control of the annual revenue budget, the Council's Medium-Term Financial Strategy, the capital programme, and the overall control environment with focus on strong financial governance.

Senior Finance Business Partner
- Treasury and Tax

This role will be responsible for managing the treasury and VAT function, involving daily cash management activities, cashflow analysis, treasury monitoring, VAT returns and VAT advice.

This role will also be involved in the year end close down, and budget setting process in providing support for the Treasury and Capital strategies.

About you
You will be CCAB qualified or have equivalent, significant experience at senior level.

We are looking for individuals with drive, initiative and confidence. We want you to help create the financial foundations that will shape the future of the Council. This is a truly unique opportunity to be part of this exciting journey of service transformation across North Northamptonshire.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.

Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.

We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete._

Our benefits

We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.