Job Description: As the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Resources Directorate, you will serve as the senior finance professional, providing financial leadership and expertise. Your role involves managing business partner support to address financial risks and budget pressures while ensuring the Council's financial health. You will collaborate with directors and stakeholders to deliver high-quality financial advice and foster a culture of challenge and empowerment within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing direct support to the Council's directors across its Resources directorate, enabling them to protect the Council's financial health.
- Challenging and testing service budget proposals to ensure they are realistic, viable, and commercially sound.
- Acting as the service gateway to the Shared Finance Service, ensuring stakeholders have access to high-quality professional advice.
- Supporting and challenging services to manage key financial risks.
- Providing high-quality professional advice on the financial implications of service proposals and drafting financial comments for Committee Reports.
- Leading on the development of a culture that encourages challenge and empowers staff to deliver more from their financial resources.
Skills Required:
- Strong financial leadership and expertise.
- Experience in budget management and financial risk assessment.
- Ability to provide high-quality professional financial advice.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Capability to foster a culture of challenge and empowerment.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sutton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We encourage neurodivergent and disabled applicants to apply for this inclusive role.
Description Job Description
As the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Resources Directorate, you will be the senior finance professional for the area, developing subject matter expertise and providing robust financial leadership. You will lead and manage the provision of business partner support, ensuring your team's resources are targeted towards managing key financial risks and major budget pressures.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing direct support to the Council's directors across its Resources directorate, enabling them to protect the Council's financial health.
- Challenging and testing service budget proposals to ensure they are realistic, viable, and commercially sound.
- Acting as the service gateway to the Shared Finance Service, ensuring stakeholders have access to high-quality professional advice.
- Supporting and challenging services to manage key financial risks.
- Providing high-quality professional advice on the financial implications of service proposals and drafting financial comments for Committee Reports.
- Leading on the development of a culture that encourages challenge and empowers staff to deliver more from their financial resources.
Negotiable
Sutton, England, United Kingdom
Undetermined
Undetermined
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Job Description: As the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Resources Directorate, you will serve as the senior finance professional, providing financial leadership and expertise. Your role involves managing business partner support to address financial risks and budget pressures while ensuring the Council's financial health. You will collaborate with directors and stakeholders to deliver high-quality financial advice and foster a culture of challenge and empowerment within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing direct support to the Council's directors across its Resources directorate, enabling them to protect the Council's financial health.
- Challenging and testing service budget proposals to ensure they are realistic, viable, and commercially sound.
- Acting as the service gateway to the Shared Finance Service, ensuring stakeholders have access to high-quality professional advice.
- Supporting and challenging services to manage key financial risks.
- Providing high-quality professional advice on the financial implications of service proposals and drafting financial comments for Committee Reports.
- Leading on the development of a culture that encourages challenge and empowers staff to deliver more from their financial resources.
Skills Required:
- Strong financial leadership and expertise.
- Experience in budget management and financial risk assessment.
- Ability to provide high-quality professional financial advice.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Capability to foster a culture of challenge and empowerment.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sutton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We encourage neurodivergent and disabled applicants to apply for this inclusive role.
Description Job Description
As the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Resources Directorate, you will be the senior finance professional for the area, developing subject matter expertise and providing robust financial leadership. You will lead and manage the provision of business partner support, ensuring your team's resources are targeted towards managing key financial risks and major budget pressures.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing direct support to the Council's directors across its Resources directorate, enabling them to protect the Council's financial health.
- Challenging and testing service budget proposals to ensure they are realistic, viable, and commercially sound.
- Acting as the service gateway to the Shared Finance Service, ensuring stakeholders have access to high-quality professional advice.
- Supporting and challenging services to manage key financial risks.
- Providing high-quality professional advice on the financial implications of service proposals and drafting financial comments for Committee Reports.
- Leading on the development of a culture that encourages challenge and empowers staff to deliver more from their financial resources.

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