Team Leader (Finance)

Newcastle City Council; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for a highly skilled finance professional to lead a finance team. You will be responsible for preparing and monitoring the Council's revenue and capital budgets while providing essential support to budget and project managers. The ideal candidate should be CCAB qualified or working towards it, with excellent communication and organizational skills. Strong leadership capabilities are essential for success in this role.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Access to family friendly policies

Enhanced work-life balance options

Salary sacrifice schemes

Access to employee assistance programme

Learning and development opportunities

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experience managing financial resources.
• Proven ability to lead a high performing team.
• Sound knowledge of local authority finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a finance team supporting budget and project managers.
• Prepare and monitor the Council's revenue and capital budgets.
• Provide day-to-day financial support to managers.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Excellent organisation skills

Ability to present complex financial information

Leadership skills

Team management

Education

CCAB qualification or working towards qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled finance professional who is passionate about providing excellent financial support to managers across the organisation. If you're a finance professional looking for a role with variety and challenge, then we'd like to hear from you.

We are looking for an individual who is either CCAB qualified or working towards qualification, has sound knowledge of local authority finance and experience of providing support to those responsible for managing financial resources. You will have excellent communication and organisation skills and have experience at presenting complex financial information in user friendly formats. To be successful you will need to demonstrate the ability to lead and manage a highly performing team. The full job person specification lists the essential skills and knowledge we are looking for in this role.

Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. It's an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region. Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence. From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we're all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving. We want you to help us make Newcastle a great place to work, visit and live in. Our values: Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Council's values: Proud Fair Ambitious.

What the role will involve?

We are a high performing finance team that provides excellent support to managers across the organisation. As part of the Financial Management team, you will be leading a team responsible for the preparing and monitoring of the Council's revenue and capital budgets and providing day to day support to budget and project managers.

Benefits:

• A generous annual leave allowance.
• The option to buy additional annual leave.
• Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
• An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
• Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
• Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.
• Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
• Access to Mental Health Advocates.
• Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network.
• Ability to join a trade union.
• Access to a staff travel scheme.
• Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres.
• A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.
• Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK's high street and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment.

Why work for us?

We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best. Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City's vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on. If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors then we want to hear from you.