Senior Finance Manager (Housing Revenue)

The role

Are you a fully qualified finance professional ready to make an impact? Join Southwark Council as our Senior Finance Manager and lead on the financial management of one of our most critical services, the Housing Revenue Account (HRA).

We're now on the lookout for an experienced Senior Finance Partner who is passionate about management accounting services that add value and drive strategic financial decisions that will support this busy service area.

What you’ll be doing:

• Strategic Leadership: Oversee the financial management of Southwark’s HRA Repairs and Maintenance programme, ensuring value for money in a challenging financial environment.
• Savings Delivery: Lead the implementation of an ambitious savings plan by developing innovative initiatives, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, and reporting progress effectively.
• Comprehensive Financial Oversight: Manage financial and management accounting for both the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and General Fund, ensuring accuracy and accountability.
• Procurement Excellence: Shape procurement strategies to keep Repairs and Maintenance programmes compliant, cost-effective, and adaptive to evolving regulations and financial strategies.
• Service Sustainability: Drive contractor evaluation and due diligence processes, safeguarding the sustainability of vital services.

How will you make an impact as our Senior Finance Business Partner?

• A fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with proven experience in financial leadership.
• A strategic thinker who can balance rigorous compliance with innovative problem-solving.
• An adept communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and lead diverse teams.
• Corporate accountancy experience, ideally within Local Government or the Public Sector.
• Strong skills in financial reporting, analysis, and decision-making.
• Passion for fostering a cost-conscious culture with pragmatic solutions.
• Proven ability to design robust processes and systems for effective change management.
• Flexible hybrid working, combining remote work with visits to our London Bridge HQ.

Additional salary details

About Southwark:

As a council, we are successful, passionate, and forward thinking. We are committed to tackling injustice and inequalities and rebuilding our local economy following the pandemic, ensuring that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.

As a diverse central London borough, Southwark faces a range of challenges, which we aim to address through the delivery of the Borough Plan. We are looking for candidates to join our team to help us continue to make Southwark an inclusive borough for all our communities.   

Southwark Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We monitor our recruitment practices to check that we are employing people in a fair and non-discriminatory way. We also publish annual workforce reports. We are proud to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough.

These are exciting times for the London Borough of Southwark with many developments taking place along the River Thames, at the Council estates at Elephant and Castle, at the former Surrey Docks at Canada Water, and through to Peckham and Camberwell.

Benefits and more information:

https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/

This post attracts a JNC benefit to the value of £2,724

Salary Range: £57,678 - £71,742

Recruitment timetable

Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 13th of January 2025

Interview and Assessment: Week Commencing 20th of January 2025

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, in which case we will move the key dates for the process. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.