215 Executive / Management jobs in Arnold, Nottinghamshire

Are you an experienced finance professional looking for a new challenge? Do you have a passion for continuous improvement and the delivery of high-quality services? About the Role As the SEN Finance Coordinator, you will be responsible for managing the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Payments Finance Function. You will provide oversight, governance, and leadership to deliver a safe, efficient, cost effective, and customer-focused multi-disciplinary function that meets the needs of both internal and external customers. You will need to effectively integrate resources (people, contracts, and technology) with performance management processes and practices to ensure the delivery of services which comply with council policies and values, national regulations, and finance best practice. Collaborating with colleagues across Strategic Finance, Transformation and Children and Family Services, you will support a fundamental review of the function to ensure it continues to meet statutory requirements, customer needs and supports the delivery of the Council's strategic outcomes. This will include assessing processes, technology, controls and structure, as well as testing and implementing long-term improvements to the delivery of the service. You may, on occasion, be required to work outside of normal working hours.

• Be educated to degree level or be part CCAB or AAT qualified plus hold an appropriate professional / management qualification or have equivalent management experience.
• Have experience of delivering a financial service through the management of a large team, including undertaking performance management, supervision and appraisals.
• Have experience of resolving financial problems, particularly efficiency, with sound workable solutions and of communicating financial, system and process information to non-finance specialists in an easily understandable way, both in written form and face-to-face.
• Have a broad understanding of the different areas of finance (e.g., transactional and management accounting), finance best practice including financial control, and the importance of confidentiality and data security.
• Have experience of identifying and supporting the implementation of improvements in a Finance function including knowledge of how technology such as Power BI, Fusion Analytics or a similar reporting tool, and Oracle Fusion or a similar ERP solution, can improve management information and working practices.
• Have experience of working in cross functional teams, developing links between financial and operational information to ensure business objectives and financial objectives are met and of developing effective working relationships with senior and operational managers within service departments, other finance professionals, and stakeholders.
• Have experience of developing and applying Financial Performance Indicators to provide assurance of good practice through performance management and of developing the effective use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, in the financial management of processes and resources.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process. Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

About Leicestershire County Council Leicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development. Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire. For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following: Nottingham City Council