What's involved with this role: Interim Financial Planning And Reporting Manager Job Ref: E Riding 5264050 Pay Rate: £32.87 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-5 months City: BEVERLEY You’ll lead a team of professionals, delivering expert services and providing specialist advice to support complex work across the Council. You’ll take charge of the Council's medium and long-term financial planning, budget processes, and financial monitoring, ensuring accurate reporting for both internal and external stakeholders. Your leadership will be crucial in guiding the Council's financial strategy and maintaining a clear, well-managed financial direction. Key duties: Recruit, lead, and motivate a high-performing team, resolving performance issues to drive continuous improvement and achieve excellent outcomes within resource limits. Plan, organise, and ensure efficient delivery of professional services, translating broader Directorate objectives into clear service plans. Design and deliver training programs to promote a best-practice service culture. Conduct complex analysis of internal service data to develop innovative practices and provide senior colleagues with actionable insights. Manage the interpretation and communication of policies, legislation, and regulations, staying ahead of changes that impact the business. Oversee the development and implementation of policy frameworks, ensuring compliance with best practices, legislation, and Council policies. Build internal and external partnerships, representing the finance team and contributing to strategic planning and service delivery improvements. Key requirements: Recognised chartered accountancy qualification together with extensive experience at a senior level in a public sector financial environment. Extensive knowledge and proven track record of managing and leading a professional team within a multi-disciplinary organisation. Extensive knowledge of financial management at a strategic level. Extensive, up-to-date knowledge of accounting, budgeting principles, public sector finance, funding streams, government initiatives, and relevant legislation affecting local authorities. Experience of leading large and complex projects and programmes that are impactful to the organisation. Experience of working in collaboration and partnership with others to achieve outcomes. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to resolve significant complex financial issues. Has strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Desirable: Extensive knowledge of local authority financial management at a strategic level. Experience of leading the preparation of local authority statutory accounts. Experience of successful change management Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.