Southwark, London (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
No DBS check required
£83,964 - £105,096
The role
We're now on the lookout for a qualified professional who is passionate about management accounting services that add value and drive strategic financial decisions that will support this busy service area.
What you’ll be doing:
- Deliver high-quality financial accounting, strategic management accounting, and procurement advice to support the Southwark’s HRA objectives.
- Advise on strategic finance and planning, ensuring success in the council’s business planning processes and major projects, including capital programmes.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships between service areas, key partners, and the Professional Finance Services team to align with the council’s financial priorities.
- Develop and implement a procurement strategy for the service area, ensuring compliance with corporate protocols and standards.
- Create a strategy to support departmental services in achieving best value and efficient use of financial resources across both revenue and capital expenditure.
- Provide clear and relevant financial implications and commentary for reports presented to cabinet, scrutiny committees, council assemblies, and external bodies.
- Deliver a comprehensive programme of financial monitoring reports, enabling strategic and operational oversight of financial resources.
How will you make an impact as our Assistant Finance Director?
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with proven financial leadership experience.
- Strategic thinker with a balance of compliance expertise and innovative problem-solving skills.
- Skilled in financial planning, reporting, procurement, and resource optimisation.
- Proactive, innovative, and adept at solving complex financial challenges.
- Strong communicator capable of influencing stakeholders and leading diverse teams.
- Corporate accountancy experience, ideally within Local Government or the Public Sector.
- Expertise in financial reporting, analysis, and decision-making.
- Passionate about fostering a cost-conscious culture with practical solutions.
- Flexible hybrid working, blending remote work with visits to our London Bridge HQ.
Additional salary details
Are you a dynamic and fully qualified finance professional ready to take the lead in shaping the financial strategy of one of London’s most progressive councils? Southwark Council is looking for an Assistant Finance Director to provide exceptional financial leadership and deliver transformative impact of one of our most critical services, the Housing Revenue Account (HRA).
These are exciting times for the London Borough of Southwark with many developments taking place along the River Thames, at the Council estates at Elephant and Castle, at the former Surrey Docks at Canada Water, and through to Peckham and Camberwell.
About Southwark:
As a council, we are successful, passionate, and forward thinking. We are committed to tackling injustice and inequalities and rebuilding our local economy following the pandemic, ensuring that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
As a diverse central London borough, Southwark faces a range of challenges, which we aim to address through the delivery of the Borough Plan. We are looking for candidates to join our team to help us continue to make Southwark an inclusive borough for all our communities.
Southwark Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We monitor our recruitment practices to check that we are employing people in a fair and non-discriminatory way. We also publish annual workforce reports. We are proud to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough.
Benefits and more information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
This post attracts a JNC benefit to the value of £2,724
Salary Range: £83,964 - £105,096
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on 9th of February 2025
Interview and Assessment: Week Commencing 17th of February 2025
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, in which case we will move the key dates for the process. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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