Strategic Finance Manager - PSPS – Public Sector Partnership Services Ltd : Job Details

Public Sector Partnership Services are looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to lead the Business Partner Team for one of our Client Councils!

We are offering a salary of 55k + annual performance related bonus of £3,000 + Medicash Health Care Plan.

This is an excellent opportunity for a CCAB Qualified Accountant to join us in providing management and technical accounting services to District and Borough Councils within the Southeast Lincolnshire Councils Partnership. This role offers great personal development and career progression with exposure to a variety of public sector services and innovative transformation projects.

Working with other Strategic Finance Managers this is a chance to develop your reporting, decision-making and technical accounting skills and to provide consistent and efficient analysis of financial management data to our client councils.

You will manage and support the Business Partner Team in the setting of annual budgets for a diverse range of public sector services, reporting financial performance and support the technical team on completion of the final accounts. Working with your team you will provide support to budget managers and prepare reports to update stakeholders on the financial performance of the organisation.

You will be:

• Professionally curious – see a problem, identify an inconsistency, work with colleagues to understand.
• A critical friend - providing insight and guidance to your colleagues and clients, ensuring plans, budgets, forecasts align to strategic objectives.
• Analytical - identifying and developing new opportunities and balancing risk through analysis of management information data.
• A people person – a collaborator, interested in developing the skills of colleagues and explaining and listening to clients to improve understanding of data.

If that sounds interesting, this could be the role for you!

Our Financial Services Department also provides client councils with products and solutions for making payments to its business partners and suppliers as well as delivering and maintaining several complex financial systems that are key to the day to day running’s of our high quality end to end financial management.

What we need from you:

• Fully CIPFA/CIMA/ACCA qualified
• Experienced in public sector finance
• Ability to lead and motivate a team as well as manage workloads within tight timescales.

We offer great benefits including:

• Local Government Pension Scheme, 23.1% employer contribution
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays and the option to purchase up to 5 days extra
• Get your birthday off
• Agile working policy- Minimum of 2 days working in the office per week
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Benefits Platform including retail, holiday, and leisure discounts
• Inclusive employment policies including gender neutral Family Parental leave policy and Time off provisions to support those special and challenging moments in our employees’ lives
• We support your career development

ABOUT US:

PSPS (Public Sector Partnership Services) is a Local Authority Trading Company (LATCo) which is wholly owned by East Lindsey District Council, South Holland District Council and Boston Borough Council. The Company operates from its offices in Spalding, Boston, and Horncastle. The Company provides a range of services including Human Resources & Payroll, Financial Services, Procurement & Contracts, ICT (Information and Communications Technology) & Digital, Customer Contact, Revenues & Benefits, Health & Safety, and a range of Corporate Support services.

The Company primarily delivers these services to its three client Councils, in support of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership (S&ELCP), across the Company itself and externally to a resident population of approximately 305,000 across the geographical boundaries of South Holland, East Lindsey and Boston.

We aim to be a competitive employer of choice within the local area, and within the public sector landscape as a service provider. We work hard to ensure we model our values and behaviours in developing and investing in our people and seek to be bold and innovative.

PSPS has committed to be a Disability Confident employer.

PSPS is an equal opportunities employer.