Finance Manager - Education and Inclusion

TN United Kingdom; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

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Finance Manager - Education and Inclusion, Ellesmere Port

Client: Cheshire West and Chester Council

Location: Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

Job Category: Finance

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference:

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Posted:

30.03.2025

Expiry Date:

14.05.2025

Job Description:

Join a committed and dedicated finance team as a Finance Manager for Children’s Finance.

You will be responsible for a team delivering high quality advice, information and analysis for a gross budget of £m (including DSG) across the Education & Inclusion service, including areas such as Schools, Home to School transport, Early Years, SEN and High Needs.

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Are you passionate about contributing to the best start for children and young people?

The postholder will lead a team of staff with responsibility for providing a wide range of financial services, including the provision of specialist and strategic advice and information and support to key transformation programmes, using a business partnering approach. Your team will work closely with relevant budget officers from the aforementioned areas above.

You will act as the lead finance service point of contact supporting special projects and major transformation programmes linked to the Education & Inclusion service, to ensure the Council’s interests are safeguarded and benefits are realised.

You and your team will provide independent challenge, analysis and interpretation of financial and performance information to ensure that inefficiencies, irregularities and performance variances (financial and non-financial) are investigated and opportunities for improved service delivery are realised.

To be successful in this role you will be a CCAB Qualified Accountant with extensive finance business partnering experience at a local authority or similar, with Children’s Service experience being highly beneficial. However, we are happy to speak with candidates across local government finance and other public sector disciplines.

We are looking for a passionate and resilient people manager, with a track record managing a number of reports. You are able to build strong working relationships across finance, children’s services and external partners in order to deliver results and ensure the financial sustainability of children’s services.

No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £ per hour for all contracted hours.