Financial Reporting Manager

1 day ago


Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom Royal Borough of Kingston Full time

**Salary**: £50,700 - £59,262 (£61,455 unconsolidated maximum)
**Contract**:Permanent
**Hours**:Full time, 36 hours
**Annual Leave**: 31 days
**Location**: Hybrid working - with the expectation to go into the office between 1-3 times a week depending on service needs

**About the Role**

The Shared Finance Service ambition is to add value, inspire success and this role is part of the Shared Finance Service (SFS) collectively responsible for delivering SFS activities to realise this ambition. The role provides direct support to the Head of Financial Reporting & Control and may be required to deputise as required.

The post holder is required to support the Head of Financial Reporting & Control to maintain the integrity of financial records and accounts for Kingston and Sutton. The post holder will take responsibility for leading and managing the annual closing process and in year financial reporting to senior officers. The post holder will also provide leadership to the systems and control functions. The post holder will work as part of the Senior Leadership Team of the service to provide inspirational leadership and drive cultural change to ensure the service reflects the INSPIRE values and achieves excellent outcomes.

This role will be accountable for:

- Providing day to day management and professional supervision to staff to ensure operational plans and activities are delivered effectively.
- Providing assurance that the Council's operations are being conducted within defined regulatory, statutory and professional standards.
- Leading small projects and implementing changes and improvements within agreed cost, time and quality standards.
- Where relevant, manage service level budgets and resources in order to support the delivery of intended outcomes and demonstrate value for money.

**About Us**

The Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Sutton employ nearly 500 staff across its shared services in HR, Finance, Customer Service, Neighbourhoods, Environment and ICT. This is a highly rewarding way of working that will help you develop new skills as you manage relationships and provide a consistent service across multiple partners.

The Financial, Reporting & Control team brings together corporate accountancy, financial systems as well as cash and control functions. The team's purpose within the Shared Service is to ensure the financial system, and the information within it, is ready to meet the needs of users, such as finance colleagues, budget holders and Directors. It is a shared service that supports two councils: the London Borough of Sutton, and the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. The team also produces a number of statutory returns for both Councils, including the Statement of Accounts, the Revenue Outturn forms and Whole of Government Accounts.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- CCAB (or equivalent) qualified
- Detailed knowledge & experience of Capital Programme development
- Detailed understanding of Local Authority Capital Accounting and associated guidance
- Experience of providing commercially focussed finance support to large programmes and projects
- Experience of developing or interpreting complex financial models
- Experience and knowledge of business case development and financial viability assessments
- Knowledge and understanding of alternative delivery models for Local Authority services
- Experience of working collaboratively with senior non-finance officers and elected officials to deliver excellent outcomes

**Our Offer To You**

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Car parking scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership



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