Interim Head of Finance - Homes & Communities

London, £750 per day

Our client, a Local Government organisation, based in London, is seeking to recruit an Interim Head of Finance - Homes & Communities for an initial 3 months.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Homes & Communities Finance Teams within Financial Management, supporting, Homes & Communities, advising on relevant aspects of strategic finance and business partnering, alongside comprehensive financial direction, support and guidance to a range of Council’s services and Directorates.
• Support transformation and business led projects within Homes & Communities, ensuring that timely and robust financial information is provided to support with decision making and take an active role in shaping outcomes of projects. In addition, ensuring that budgets are realigned to deliver savings targets, reporting timing differences in delivery.
• Ensure that Senior Management and their budget managers are supported to deliver their accountabilities for budget management and that directorates comply with Financial Standing Orders and all other financial policies and procedures as directed by the Director of Corporate Finance.
• Provide financial leadership and strategic advice to directorates to enable them to develop robust financial plans and ensure that the future needs of the service are reflected in the Council’s medium term financial forecast (MTFF).
• Ensure the provision of high-quality financial advice and accurate and timely financial information to Corporate Directors, Heads of Service and budget managers across the directorates. 
• Promote and facilitate a culture that supports a self-service approach to budget management with strategic financial management support through a business partnering model.
• Lead on the financial modelling of demand led budgets, within Homes & Communities to ensure robust forecasts are established, working in conjunction with relevant senior managers within the Service areas, and to use the trend data to inform MTFF decision making.
• Support the requirements of the statutory accounting process, external audit process and legislative changes that may have financial impact on directorates
• Maintain effective working relationships with colleagues within the Finance directorate to proactively support the production of strategic financial information, medium term financial plans and the training and development of the wider Corporate Finance service.
• Establish effective external working relationships with key stakeholders within the community, government, professional bodies and other appropriate public and private bodies to ensure the service has the knowledge and expertise to continuously improve its performance.

Requirements

• Must be an experienced DOF or CFO within a large diverse organisation.
• Proven extensive Financial & Business Track Record.

To apply click the APPLY ONLINE button below and upload your CV. Alternatively for more information, please call Marcus Greenhalgh on 07832 211600 stating reference number 3517.