| My client is recruiting for a Financial Services Group Manager. This position is a key part of the Council's senior management group, reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive. The main purpose of the role is to provide effective financial and revenue services to support the delivery of high quality, cost effective and customer focused services. You will lead the development and delivery of effective services in the following areas: Financial Planning and Monitoring, Payroll, Debtors/Creditors, Capital Accounting, Treasury Management, Revenues, Business Rates (NNDR). This is a brilliant opportunity for a commercially driven ambitious person. It is essential you hold a professional CCAB accountancy qualification and demonstrate a track record of strong leadership and delivery. The successful candidate will be confident, approachable, creative, have excellent communication and negotiation skills, be politically aware and have a driving passion to improve public services. You will have experience of leading change, both from a systems and people perspective. This is an exciting and challenging role which has the potential for future career progression. My client has a growing reputation for delivering improvements and customer focused services creatively with its partners. They are focused, energetic and determined to be excellent and make a difference for local people. They have recently put in place a new senior management team who are determined to succeed together. This is being done by following the principles of Systems Thinking which concentrates on doing what matters for the customer, eliminating waste and building a strong team culture.Only applicants with a suitable amount of UK based finance experience and who have a legal right to work within the UK will be considered. |