What's involved with this role: Title: Interim Finance Manager – Children’s Service Job Ref: Kirklees 0009 51FF / 1 Pay Rate: £25.13 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months City: HUDDERSFIELD The job is primarily home working but there may be occasions when attendance at face to face meetings is required. An opportunity has arisen for a role as Finance Manager supporting Children’s Services. This will also involve support to the Safety Valve Programme. Work will involve managing a team of 6 staff with 2 Senior Finance Officers reporting into the Finance Manager, collating monthly budget monitoring information, attending Senior Leadership Team meetings to present information and support Children's Services with budget setting and financial queries. Key Responsibilities: Responsible for providing a comprehensive, high quality, financial service including the management and supervision of staff. Be a visible leader, manage resources effectively, and be passionate about making a difference. In doing this you will be expected to provide and share information in a clear and concise manner to build understanding. Have management responsibility for a finance team, be a positive role model and ensure commitment towards team goals and Service vision and priorities. Performance manage your team and ensure delivery to customers. Look to create positive working relationships and be committed to developing your team and yourself. Support the Head of Service by being a member of the Finance Manager Group. Provision of a comprehensive, high quality and timely financial management service that is directed and controlled in accordance with statutory, financial and Council procedures. Achievement of corporate and Service objectives. Continuation of high-quality financial processes, together with assisting in their improvement and further development through review, evaluation and challenge of practice and current expectations and by recommending and overseeing the implementation of change. Aid the Service Director, and Head of Service in the development and maintenance of financial planning processes. Qualifications: Member of a recognised CCAB professional accountancy body. Knowledge: Knowledge of professional accounting standards. An awareness of the current issues affecting local government and the financial implications for local authorities. Experience: Experience in the application of resource and business planning within a local authority or similarly complex organisation. Experience of complex financial systems in a large organisation. Experience of supporting the preparation of budgets, medium term financial and service plans and introducing appropriate mechanisms to monitor their activity. Experience of supporting managers in producing sound and robust business cases for the investment of resources in the service. Experience of helping service managers in identifying and managing risk. Experience of giving advice on financial issues to managers and other stakeholders. Experience of managing the preparation of annual accounts. Skills & Abilities: Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Ability to support managers in the development of finance services. Ability to advise and motivate senior managers and finance staff and prioritise workloads. 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. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to/or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states in broad terms where you reside - no need for a full address. 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. 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