Strategic Finance Director

2 days ago

Slough, Slough, United Kingdom CRA GROUP LIMITED Full time

Job Summary:

The CRA GROUP LIMITED is seeking a highly experienced and skilled Strategic Finance Director to join our team. As a key member of our senior management team, you will contribute to the collective leadership of the organization, working collaboratively with stakeholders to deliver our objectives and priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead by example in modeling and embedding our organization's values and behaviors to build a sustainable and highly effective organization.
  • Provide outstanding leadership and direction to our financial operations, driving service transformation and ensuring excellent joint working with stakeholders.
  • Help shape the direction of our organization to drive forward the public service reform agenda and ensure delivery of our priorities and value to our customers.
  • As a senior leader, work together with our distributed leadership network to drive forward and accept collective responsibility for a range of departmental and cross-cutting initiatives.
  • Lead the integrated delivery, improvement, management, and performance of our financial operations, commissioning and directing activity within the organization and externally as required.
  • Ensure tight budgetary control and prioritize the use of resources and assets to support the delivery of our corporate vision and ensure that we receive value for money from our expenditure.
  • Drive and/or support the development of outcome-based commissioning models to better ensure strong price competition and transfer of risks through contracts with third parties.
  • Actively engage, communicate, and influence within the organization, across partners, and with the wider local and central government community to champion our approach to unified public services.
  • Lead, develop, and ensure the implementation and review of change management programs to deliver continual improvement.
  • Ensure that all activities within our financial operations comply with our organization's constitution, Standing Orders, financial regulations, health and safety, and safeguarding responsibilities.
  • Uphold and promote the aims of our organization's equality and diversity policies to ensure non-discriminatory practices in all aspects of work and that diversity is embedded in everything from workforce planning and policy development to planning service delivery.
  • Lead on the closure of accounts for our financial operations, ensuring that income and expenditure accounts are accurate, all balance sheet items are reconciled, and all holding accounts are cleared on a regular and timely basis.
  • Foster a high-performance culture, including carrying out internal service reviews to improve value for money, efficiency, and ensure that our financial operations are at the leading edge of service delivery and development.
  • Negotiate with a wide variety of external contractors, partners, government departments, and suppliers to secure funding for our organization and represent our interests on national working groups.
  • Be an effective lead on improving finance projects, including leading a team of staff, developing a project initiation document, and a project plan, ensuring that projects deliver agreed outcomes successfully and on time.
  • Rapidly assess the implications of all emerging and potential issues/new policies and ensure that our Director of Finance is promptly and fully briefed.

Requirements:

  • Substantial experience, evidenced by a track record of success, leading and developing a significant organizational function or service in a large multidisciplinary organization with comparable scope, budgets, and resources.
  • Demonstrable experience of establishing and building partnerships and productive working relationships within a complex policy and service environment with senior managers and councillors and a wide range of other bodies.
  • Evidence of successful resources management in a multidisciplinary environment, as well as a successful track record in managing large budgets, business planning, quality, and performance management.
  • Experience of commissioning and leading the analysis of a range of data, e.g., comparing our organization's income and expenditure against other local authorities and other organizations.
  • Managing and successfully delivering several projects simultaneously, a knowledge of project management, and of implementing and operating major changes to service provision.
  • Proven ability to manage political and cultural issues and deliver project, program, and change management programs.
  • Ability to translate strategic objectives into operational plans.
  • Ability to deploy advanced interpersonal skills to inspire, motivate, coach, and develop team members to high levels of performance.
  • Advanced relationship and stakeholder management skills and skilled in written and verbal communication to influence and engage others effectively.
  • Excellent financial and budget management skills with the ability to deliver economies through creative and efficient working practices.
  • A commitment to equality and diversity, both as a leader and a service deliverer, with an ability to demonstrate personal leadership on the importance of diversity.
  • Superior and demonstrable commercial, financial, and analytical skills, for example, to analyze complex problems, develop business models, investigate and evaluate options and opportunities.
  • Knowledge of the issues facing local government and those relevant to service/functional responsibilities, together with the legal, financial, and political context of public sector management and the statutory responsibilities of this post.
  • Ability to deploy a substantial body of knowledge of leading-edge business, financial, and commercial techniques and of all the accounts and systems that underpin the financial integrity of our organization.

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