Are you an experienced Finance Manager with excellent leadership skills looking for a new challenge ? Come and join our corporate finance team and help keep WSCC safe and secure.
Join us – make a difference in our communities
The Finance Directorate plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Council. We are a forward-thinking, commercially minded team committed to delivering high-quality financial services that respond to the needs of our customers and stakeholders. Our focus is not only on maintaining robust financial controls to keep WSCC safe and secure, but also on driving innovation, efficiency, and smarter use of public funds.
The Opportunity
Salary: £59,991 to £63,411 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time 37 hour per week
Location County Hall, Chichester and flexible working
Interview date: Week commencing 13th July
We are now seeking an experienced and motivated Finance Manager to lead our Banking, Cash Management and Financial Compliance functions helping to ensure strong governance while supporting the Council’s strategic ambitions.
As Finance Manager, you will appreciate the importance of financial governance and internal controls and have strong technical skills to be able to research and implement complex regulations.
Additionally, you will serve as the lead officer for all VAT-related matters across the council, including liaising with senior managers both within the council and within HMRC.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
- Supporting with the financial governance of the Council by reviewing and updating Finance Regulations, Procedures, and other corporate policies.
- Managing various finance contracts.
- Ensuring VAT compliance by managing all aspects, liaising with the external Tax Advisor, and advising senior officers on complex VAT issues.
- Overseeing the Banking and Cash Management team, maintaining banking relationships, and working with senior officers to develop innovative, compliant solutions for income optimisation.
What are we looking for?
- Experience of delivering customer focused service, managing a large team or large-scale activity to meet defined performance indicators and business strategies.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to make pragmatic, impactful decisions that benefit the service.
- Experience of delivering or co-ordinating a quality service
to others.
- Contribute to implementing policies and procedures, interpreting practices to meet short- and medium-term operational needs.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and persuade others to negotiate effective business solutions.
- Able to challenge existing practices and identify
innovative solutions.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
The reference number for this role is CRS01098.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact [email protected]
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact [email protected].
Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
