Summary: The Interim Finance Manager role involves supporting the current Finance Manager during year-end processes and subsequently managing the financial performance of children's services until a permanent replacement is found. The position requires overseeing service budgets, providing expert financial advice, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The role is temporary, lasting approximately 3-4 months, and is based in Bournemouth. The successful candidate will be responsible for completing statutory accounts and maintaining financial control.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on the financial aspects for services, ensuring solutions are established that make effective use of resource in a demonstrably fair way whilst meeting the changing demand that the Council faces
• Provide complex, expert advice that is evidence based, in accordance with regulations and policies, and that will support Council decision making
• Manage and monitor service budgets, ensuring best fit with strategic direction of the service and a holistic approach to business planning in order to maximise outcomes for customers
• Proactively identify and develop the financial service by interpreting legislative requirements and developing processes that allow for national and local changes as well as developing staff and financial modelling for services and projects
• Completion of the statutory accounts, setting a balanced budget and ensuring financial control and reporting is maintained and developed

Key Skills:

• Must be CCAB qualified
• Previous experience in a financial environment
• Previous experience leading within a multi disciplinary organisation
• Proactive balance of risk and benefit

Salary (Rate): £441.00

City: BOURNEMOUTH

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance