Children's Finance Specialist

Children’s Finance Specialist

Location: Somerset

Contract: Temporary (6 month initial)

*Fully Remote Working*

Job Description

Service Care Solutions is recruiting on behalf of a Local Authority in Somerset for a Children Finance Specialist. The client is seeking an experienced and dynamic finance professional to lead our Children’s Social Care team. You will play a crucial role in shaping financial strategy, ensuring strong governance, and driving service improvements.

Main responsibilities

• Work proactively and collaboratively to support our permanent finance team, offering skills and knowledge transfer to enable sustainable working methods in the medium term and to support the career development of our valued team members.
• Provide expert financial analysis, insight, and advice into the development of robust business cases for transformational change in service delivery and to secure associated cost reduction/income generation.
• Work proactively with service colleagues to develop ambitious but deliverable interventions to reduce cost and/or generate income at scale based upon your lived experience of meeting similar challenges in other complex organisations.
• Provide constructive challenge and advice to the Service, ranging from Executive Director through to individual Budget Holder in order to maintain expenditure within approved budget.
• May be required to engage with elected members in relation to projects which you become involved in.
• Provide direct support to the Head of Finance Business Partnering in establishing consistent financial working practices and procedures to a high standard and a disciplined approach to financial evaluation and options appraisal.

Candidate Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience, including management responsibility within a local authority/council.
• Proven track record of leadership in financial management, budget planning, and delivering value-for-money strategies.
• Experience in managing organisational change, implementing new structures, systems, and ways of working.
• Strong ability to analyse complex financial data, provide high-level financial advice, and develop strategic financial plans.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and team management skills, with a commitment to customer service excellence.

If you are interested in the role, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Miraj at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208969 or email miraj.hussen@servicecare.org.uk