Interim Executive Director of Finance in Reading

Job Opportunity! – Outside IR35 – Interim Executive Director of Finance, Strategy and Transformation – Scotland – Interviews Next Week

A local government client of mine are on the lookout for an Executive Director of Finance, Strategy & Transformation to join their team on an interim basis.

Contract Duration: 4-5 Months (possibility to extend even further).

Rate: DOE

IR35: Outside

Days: 37 hours X 5 days p/w (Could maybe consider 30 hours X 4 days p/w)

Hybrid: X3 days per week in office (may fluctuate week by week).

Start Date: ASAP

Key Responsibilities:

• Full management and oversight of the Finance and Accountancy service within the council.
• Line management and oversight of the Human Resources service which is currently going through a lot of change so you will need to steady the ship.
• Transformation – have involvement with strategic transformation projects for the authority which includes different cost saving initiatives, modernisation or digitalisation projects that are being implemented and created within the council.

Successful candidates:

• Will have extensive recent Director of Resources, Director of Finance, Executive Director, Chief Finance Officer, S151 Officer, S95 Officer level experience working for UK Local Authorities.
• Will have extensive experience and involvement in anything from annual accounts, auditing, managing and presenting the full budgets as well as the budget setting process including capital & revenue budgets for 26/27.
• Will ideally as well as having extensive finance experience also have some experience in HR to help them through their period of change.
• Will ideally also have experience in transformation projects, cost saving initiatives, modernisation or digitalisation projects.

The Client will be interviewing throughout next week (week commencing 1st December 2025) so if you match the above criteria and are interested then please don\’t hesitate to reach out and send your CV to daniel.worthington@g2recruitment.com or call me on 0115 666 6399.