Senior Finance Business Partner

Spencer Clarke Group are working closely with a Local Authority to appoint two Interim Senior Finance Business Partners.

These are hands-on assignments focused on strengthening financial management across Council services, resolving existing issues and helping service managers understand the financial implications of their decisions.

Rate: £450 + per day - Flexible dependent on experience
Contract length: 6 months initially
Full-time: 37 hours per week
Hybrid working

The successful candidates will take ownership of allocated service areas, working closely with service managers and senior leadership to strengthen forecasting, financial planning and decision-making.

Key responsibilities:

• Understanding individual services and identifying underlying financial issues.

• Establishing robust forecasting arrangements.

• Investigating overspends and developing appropriate recovery actions.

• Identifying savings and transformation opportunities.

• Working with services to calculate savings and understand their implications.

• Completing full budget builds that feed into the Council's MTFS.

• Delivering monthly and quarterly financial reporting.

You will ideally have:

• A full accountancy qualification such as CIPFA, ACA, ACCA or CIMA - essential.

• Significant and recent District or Borough Council finance experience - essential.

• Strong hands-on finance business partnering experience.

• Experience resolving complex financial issues and improving forecasting.

• A proven background in budget setting, MTFS planning, overspend management and savings delivery.

• The confidence to challenge and influence service managers and senior stakeholders.

If you are interested, please submit your CV along with your availability and required day rate. If successful, a consultant will be in touch to discuss the opportunity in further detail.

Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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We also offer a market-leading referral scheme of up to £300.

If you know someone suitable, please ask them to email their CV , including your details. T&Cs apply.