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About the Role
Harrow Council is seeking an experienced and proactive Finance Manager to provide high-quality financial advice, challenge, and support to senior leadership. This role is crucial for delivering the Council’s financial strategy, medium-term financial planning, and ensuring financial sustainability. You will act as a trusted business partner, supporting services in achieving objectives while maintaining sound financial management, robust governance, and value for money.
Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality financial advice, challenge, and support to Directors, Heads of Service, and budget holders.
- Lead on financial planning, budget monitoring, forecasting, and financial reporting for revenue and capital programmes.
- Provide independent scrutiny of financial forecasts and business cases, challenge assumptions, and identify risks and opportunities.
- Ensure financial information supports effective decision-making across the organisation.
- Play a leading role in corporate financial activities, including budget setting, financial monitoring, year-end processes, statutory returns, and developing the Medium-Term Financial Strategy.
- Contribute to transformation programmes, system improvements, and cross-council projects to strengthen financial management.
- Drive continuous improvement and ensure high standards of financial governance, accountability, and customer-focused service delivery.
Requirements
- Fully qualified CCAB accountant.
- Significant experience in financial management, business partnering, and providing strategic financial advice within a complex organisation.
- Strong understanding of local authority finance, including budgeting, medium-term financial planning, capital programmes, and the wider legislative framework.
- Confident working with senior leaders and elected members.
- Ability to offer constructive challenge and influence decision-making through clear financial insight and professional advice.
- Collaborative and proactive leader.
- Committed to developing others.
- Recognised CCAB professional accountancy qualification, supported by ongoing professional development.
- Strong knowledge of local government financial management, including budget setting, financial monitoring, medium-term financial planning, capital financing, and statutory financial requirements.
- Proven experience in a finance management or business partnering role.
- Experience supporting transformation programmes.
- Experience managing financial risks.
- Experience contributing to year-end accounts and audit processes.
- Excellent analytical, numerical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to interpret complex financial information.
- Ability to produce high-quality reports.
- Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Confidence to build trusted relationships.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Ability to promote sound financial management across the organisation.
Skills
- Financial management
- Business partnering
- Strategic financial advice
- Financial planning
- Budget monitoring
- Forecasting
- Financial reporting
- Financial scrutiny
- Risk identification
- Decision-making support
- Budget setting
- Medium-term financial planning
- Financial monitoring
- Year-end processes
- Statutory returns
- Transformation programmes
- System improvements
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
Location
- Harrow
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced professional
Education Level
- Fully qualified CCAB accountant
About the Company
- At Harrow, we are proud to be a diverse, ambitious and resident-focused council.
- We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where our people can thrive, develop their careers and make a meaningful difference to the communities we serve.
- In return, you will have the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals, contribute to important corporate priorities, support our climate ambitions and help shape the future of local government finance.