Children’s Finance Specialist Location: SomersetContract: Temporary (6 month initial) Rate: £700 - £800 Per Day Umbrella Start date: ASAP*Fully Remote Working*Contact: .ukJob DescriptionService Care Solutions is recruiting on behalf of a Local Authority in Somerset for a Children Finance Specialist. The client are seeking an experienced and dynamic finance professional to lead our Children’s Social Care team. You will play a crucial role in shaping financial strategy, ensuring strong governance, and driving service improvements. Main responsibilities
1. Work proactively and collaboratively to support our permanent finance team, offering skills and knowledge transfer to enable sustainable working methods in the medium term and to support the career development of our valued team members.
2. Provide expert financial analysis, insight and advice into the development of robust business cases for transformational change in service delivery and to secure associated cost reduction/ income generation.
3. Work proactively with service colleagues to develop ambitious but deliverable interventions to reduce cost and/or generate income at scale based upon your lived experience of meeting similar challenges in other complex organisations.
4. Provide constructive challenge and advice to the Service, ranging from Executive Director, through to individual Budget Holder in order to maintain expenditure within approved bu...