What's involved with this role: Interim PT Finance Manager - Capital Programme Job Ref: Stockton on Tees 1005002415092601 Pay Rate: £26.18 per hour PAYE Hours per week: Up to 3 days a week. Specific days and hours TBC Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months City: Thornaby The successful candidate will be a primary point of contact with responsibility for providing strategic financial advice on a range of matters to the Director of the recently constituted Regeneration and Inclusive Growth Directorate. This is a superb opportunity to come in and be part of this new adventure from the start as we look to ensure financial support is robust. The role will be critical in ensuring financial considerations are at the heart of any decision-making process through the production of business cases, options appraisals and the analysis of delivery vehicles for a number of high-profile interventions. Key Responsibilities: Provide specialist financial and technical advice on a range of strategic developments, including schemes involving complex funding arrangements and those delivering efficiencies linking with other departments where appropriate. Provide financial direction, advice and support to a range of complex development projects and initiatives. Develop and evaluate options through business case principles and appraise appropriate delivery vehicles to determine long term sustainable solutions and safeguard the interests of the Council. Identify, analyse and interpret legislation, government guidance and initiatives covering the area of responsibility and assess the financial implications, risks and opportunities for the Council. Support and influence the development of the Councils financial and asset strategies and plans. Provide Strategic financial advice and support to Directors and Senior Managers Plan, organise and manage the budget management process in line with corporate standards and timescales To establish and develop effective partnerships with other organisations to integrate the financial plans and strategies of partners with those of the Council. Oversee the preparation of budgets in line with Corporate standards and timescales To support the preparation of bids for external funding and ensuring they’re appropriate to deliver the Council Plan objectives and that there are sufficient resources to deliver these interventions. To ensure a culture of co-operation and effective joint working is maintained and ensure the service is customer focused. Qualifications: CCAB Qualified. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Significant Financial Management experience. Legislation affecting Local Government Finance. Recent management experience at a senior level. Previous work on a capital programme covering a range of interventions. Producing and interpreting Business Cases and Options appraisals to understand financial risks and determine optimal solutions. Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the current issues faced by Local Government, and in particular the Service Area. Ability to think strategically and solve complex problems logically. Ability to build and maintain relationships with an array of stakeholders. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro). 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. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, 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. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S 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