Senior Finance Manager NEW Tameside Council Tameside £49,764 to £52,805 Expires on 16/03/2025

Contract Type : Permanent

Salary: Grade J. SCP 40 – £49,764 to SCP 43 – £52,805 with a professional bar at SCP 41 £50,788

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne

Assessment Date: To be arranged

To apply for this role: Please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification.

Please include: Details of your education and training and employment history and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.

The Role: Reporting to the Finance Business Partner of the Place Directorate, this role will provide essential management support to the Place Finance team and will manage and deliver a number of essential responsibilities including:

• Reporting the Directorate’s financial position, both revenue and capital including savings programmes, supporting the delivery of the medium term financial strategy, completion of annual accounts and grant claims, all within required timescales.
• Evaluating invest to save/service transformation proposals to deliver cost efficiencies, together with the evaluation of future year service delivery models.
• The continuous review, development and implementation of financial systems, policies and procedures.
• The provision of influential input to the decision-making process, including objective challenge on strategy and policy development, efficiency and encouraging a culture of continual improvement.
• The provision of management advice and/or direction to the team for corrective action on any matter that would affect the integrity of financial data or the Council’s financial performance.
• Liaison with officers across a range of disciplines within the Council together with related partners, stakeholders and agencies including external audit.

The Council actively encourages employees to work differently where feasible to deliver business outcomes. This is supported by a hybrid-working model that combines remote and office-based working.

About Us: At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Professional Development: This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such, the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification.
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role.
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable.
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here .

For further information about this role please contact Steve Jamieson on or 0161 342 2145.

Reference Number: DPT615

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