Finance Service Manager

• Location: Sefton
• Contract: Permanent
• Working Pattern: Full Time
• Hours: 36 hours per week.
• Closing Date: 19^th January 2025

Sefton is a diverse and exciting borough where people can enjoy a great work-life balance.  It encompasses world renowned nature reserves, accessible businesses and retail centres, top class leisure facilities and some of the best coastal and countryside environments.  It is an ideal location for accessing Manchester, the North West and beyond by road, rail or air.  From vibrant town centres, intimate commuter towns, beautiful villages and stunning coastal and rural locations, everyone can find their perfect home.  Sefton is at the heart of the Liverpool City Region, playing an active role in ensuring its success.

This is a changing and vibrant authority already on a journey working towards an exciting vision for the borough.  The Council’s major transformation programme is the way in which we will deliver our promises in the vision and deliver financial resilience and sustainability for the Council.  This focussed on the Core Business, the Growth Programme and a number of Change Projects including service development and transformation projects.

Sefton Council’s Finance Service is an efficient and effective team that aims to continually strengthen and promote good financial management across the organisation and play an active role in delivering the vision.

Following a recent internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity available for a Finance Service Manager who will lead the financial management support for Corporate Resources, Property and Building Services, Highways and Public Protection, Operational In-House Services and Strategic Management.  The post holder will lead their finance team and provide high level finance business partnering advice and support to Assistant Directors and Service Managers.

If you are an ambitious CCAB qualified accountant with excellent management and leadership qualities, looking for a career enhancing opportunity to make a genuine difference, then we would love to hear from you.

For further information please contact the Strategic Finance Manager - Andy Bridson - on 07813543320.