Strategic Finance Lead

CRA GROUP RECRUITMENT AND PAYROLL LTD; England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in the United Kingdom seeks a Team Manager for a 3-month contract to manage staff and oversee high-quality financial accounting. The ideal candidate will lead on the production of complex financial statements and provide strategic financial advice. Key qualifications include extensive management experience, strong accounting skills, and relevant postgraduate qualifications. This role involves ensuring the delivery of the annual accounts while handling a substantial budget and team.

Qualifications

• Extensive management experience in a financial environment.
• Proven experience in interpreting complex financial regulations.
• Strong track record in managing and delivering technical financial projects.
• Excellent technical accounting skills.
• Experience with contract account reconciliations.
• Relevant professional qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality financial accounting and strategic management information.
• Lead the production of the statement of accounts for a complex project.
• Serve as the professional lead for financial data assurance.
• Offer strategic financial advice for decision-making.

Skills

Management experience in a financial environment

Interpreting complex financial regulations

Managing technical financial projects

Leading finance teams

Technical accounting skills

Contract account reconciliations

Financial modeling

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent knowledge

Relevant professional qualification at postgraduate level

QCF level 7 in leadership and management

Programme management qualification

Job description

3-month contract position with a local authority

Summary

• This is a 3-month contract position with a local authority seeking a Team Manager to oversee a small team of specialist and professional staff or a large team of operational staff within a specific service area. The role involves managing a direct budget for staff resources and reporting to a Level 3 head of service or director. The position is crucial for providing high-quality financial accounting and strategic management information ensuring the delivery of annual accounts and offering strategic financial advice to support decision-making processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality financial accounting and strategic management information.
• Lead the production of the statement of accounts a complex and technical project.
• Serve as the councils professional lead on the delivery of annual accounts and financial data assurance.
• Offer strategic financial advice for decision-making processes including financial modeling.

  Requirements

  • Extensive management experience in a financial environment.
  • Proven experience in interpreting complex financial regulations.
  • Strong track record of managing and delivering technical financial projects.
  • Experience in leading and motivating finance teams with successful outcomes.
  • Excellent technical accounting skills and experience with contract account reconciliations.
  • Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent knowledge skills and experience.
  • Relevant professional qualification at a postgraduate level.
  • QCF level 7 in leadership and management.
  • Programme management qualification or equivalent knowledge skills and experience.

  Additional Information

  • Working hours : 37 hours per week.
  • Requires access to the UK government Public Services Network (PSN) and is subject to a BPSS check.

  The role closes soon apply ASAP.

  Required Skills

  This role leads on the production of the whole of the statement of accounts which is a series of highly technical and complex financial statements which is a 3-month project and runs to hundreds of pages of statements for which the statutory guidance changes each year.

  Required Education

  This role leads on the production of the whole of the statement of accounts which is a series of highly technical and complex financial statements which is a 3-month project and runs to hundreds of pages of statements for which the statutory guidance changes each year.

  Key Skills

  Finance Control,Finance,ABAP,Body Care,Avionics,Brokerage

  Employment Type : Full Time

  Experience : years

  Vacancy : 1