Value for Money Manager

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. Our tailored and responsive approach provides the expertise our clients need, enabling them to grow and make the right decisions about their future. Now's the time to take everything you know about audit to the next level, with our growing portfolio of clients. The constantly evolving landscape calls for an approach that puts what is right first, ahead of what is easy, and you will need to push ideas harder and ask difficult questions, giving our clients the assurance they need. Within our Audit practice, we're very keen to support and hire those who have had career breaks or time away from Audit, who would like to return to a busy, flexible auditing role. Our vacancies for qualified Auditors are all open to supporting the up-skilling and re-integration of returners to our business. We're happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we'll support you to balance your work and life. A look into the role Following the adoption of the NAO's new VfM code of practice for local authority and NHS audits in 2020/21, we have created a new national VfM team. We are looking to expand the capacity and expertise within this team to deliver greater depth and breadth of VfM work, particularly for clients with the greatest challenges, and support the wider practice in delivering VfM work by working closely with audit teams. Your primary contribution will be in the form of focused project work, in response to specific VfM risks. We are looking for you to take a lead role in delivering VfM projects, managing the client, doing the initial analysis / reviewing and compiling draft findings. You will be working as part of a larger team and we will put the appropriate support around you throughout the process, to develop our collective thinking and our messaging in the final report, and of course discussing this with the audit team. Key messages will inform our development of thought leadership. There may also be opportunities to work on joint projects with our public services advisory team. As a Value for Money Manager within our Public Sector service line, you will:

• Be responsible for a large portfolio of value for money clients
• Solve complex technical matters for our clients, and project manage client work
• Oversee and develop your team to the highest standard
• Build and maintain strong working relationship with your team and our clients
• Take opportunities for wider department responsibilities through training and pitching new projects
• Constantly strive to push yourself, and the business, further, knowing you're supported through every stage
  
  We are looking for candidates with experience of working with local government and/or NHS clients and/or who are interested in the local government and NHS sectors and keen to develop their skills and knowledge.
• We envisage some knowledge of local authority and NHS financial statements, and a reasonably good understanding of how council's, police bodies, fire authorities, and the NHS organisational landscape and financial management, financial planning and governance arrangements
• Knowledge of VfM audit, internal audit, well led, and clinical governance would be desirable, but not essential.
• Ability to work independently, summarise information from a wide range of sources to draw conclusions, and manage client relationships including senior officers, elected members and non-executives
We envisage that this role would suit a, manager or experienced in-charge , or relatively recently qualified accountant up to manager grade.

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The things you do, and the people you're with outside of work matter, that's why we're happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we'll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance. Whether that's working reduced contracted hours, working your hours over a shorter period or utilising our 'how we work' framework. Everyone has an immediate right to request a flexible arrangement through our flexible working policy.