Head of Finance and Resources

As Head of Finance and Resources and the Council’s Chief Financial Officer, you’ll be key in helping us deliver our ambitious City Centre regeneration programme, as well as leading a range of important council services yourself and ensuring the Council’s finances remain on track.

The City Centre regeneration is being delivered through a mixture of Levelling Up funding, private sector investment and Council borrowing and investment. You will need to ensure that the budget for this significant project, and our other regeneration activity, is managed and financed effectively.

You’ll also be responsible for leading the following services:

• Financial Services (including accounting and procurement)
• Revenues and Benefits
• Asset Management (including Parking)
• Bereavement Services

You will also act as the Council’s client for external audit and our outsourced Internal Audit service, and be our lead officer for Gloucestershire Airport, jointly owned with a neighbouring authority.

As the Council’s Section 151 Officer, you will be one of the three statutory officers of the Council, legally responsible for providing Councillors and Council leadership with timely, accurate and impartial advice on financial strategy and budget proposals.

And as a member of the Council’s Senior Management Team, you’ll also play a crucial role in the wider corporate leadership and management of the organisation.

Job description

About you

As well as possessing the necessary financial and technical qualifications for this role, you’ll be someone who is cool under pressure, risk aware and able to make sound judgements and provide excellent advice at all times in a political environment. You’ll be expected to contribute to a wide variety of discussions, and be able to juggle several differing priorities at once. You’ll be creative in problem-solving, a great communicator, and a team player, able to build strong relationships with Councillors, colleagues, and external partners.

Ideally, you’ll have experience of major capital projects, working with private sector partners as well as public, and have well-developed negotiation and commercial skills.

And we’re looking for a leader and an experienced manager, someone who can inspire and motivate all of those around you. In everything you do, you’ll be expected to embody the Council’s values of:

• Delivering value in a green and sustainable way
•  Working with others to make residents’ lives better
• Treating all people with fairness, compassion and respect
• Being forward thinking with innovation, and
• Being passionate about the City.

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 Equality and Diversity

We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented.

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability.

We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment to those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantaged because of disability, impairment, neurodiversity, or long-term health/ mental health condition. Please email the recruitment team Recruitment@Gloucestershire.gov.uk, if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process 

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Link to our commitment to equality and diversity 

Special notes

Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Please note that Gloucestershire County Council deliver recruitment services for City Council so responses may come from both City and County Council.