Finance Manager

WMJobs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Birmingham seeks a Finance Manager to act as a strategic business partner. The role includes providing financial insight and support to management and overseeing financial operations. Key responsibilities comprise leading reporting, budget setting, and team management to ensure effective decision-making and performance improvement.

Benefits

Flexible working options available

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Support for career development

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and financial management skills required.
• Experience in financial reporting and business cases essential.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders effectively and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead business case development and financial reporting.
• Manage a team to deliver timely and insightful financial support.
• Engage with stakeholders to enhance financial accountability.

Skills

Financial Insight

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Decision-Making

Business Case Development

Job description

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Grade 6 - £50,788 - £62,801

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

The Finance Manager is a strategic business partner providing high-quality financial insight, advice, and challenge to directorate stakeholders, including the Deputy Managing Director and corporate functional areas. The role plays a critical part in driving performance, ensuring value for money, and supporting informed decision-making by integrating financial and operational data.

Birmingham City Council,

Finance Manager

Permanent

Grade 6 - £50,788 - £62,801

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

The Finance Manager is a strategic business partner providing high-quality financial insight, advice, and challenge to directorate stakeholders, including the Deputy Managing Director and corporate functional areas. The role plays a critical part in driving performance, ensuring value for money, and supporting informed decision-making by integrating financial and operational data.

Key responsibilities include leading on business case development, savings reviews, monthly financial reporting, forecasting, budget setting, and year-end outturn reporting.

The Finance Manager also manages a team, providing leadership and direction to ensure the delivery of accurate, timely, and insightful financial support across the service.

The post-holder works closely with service leads to enhance financial understanding, embed accountability for budgets and forecasts, and identify opportunities for service improvement. They engage proactively with stakeholders, including attendance at Directorate Management Team (DMT) sessions, to influence and support strategic and operational decision-making.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

For any informal enquires please contact: [e-mail]

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Job Description And Person Specification

We strive to advertise all roles for a minimum of two weeks. However, due to high application volumes vacancies may close earlier than the stated deadline. We encourage you to submit your application without delay to ensure consideration.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance, Accounting/Auditing, and General Business

• Industries

  Human Resources Services

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