Interim Corporate Finance Manager - Capital Programme Monitoring - 6 months

Your new company
You will be supporting a large city council within the Corporate Finance Team, reporting into the Director of Finance.
Your new role
You will be working on the following tasks :

• Lead on reviewing, supporting and challenging capital bids and (green book) Business Cases
• Lead on reviewing and challenging delivery of capital schemes (mainly the financials). Work closely with the Project Management Office and support improving and developing the Capital Programme and governance
• Lead on collating and reviewing the regular financial monitoring, preparing the updates to Cabinet.
  Ensure narratives and explanations from project managers stand up to scrutiny
• Lead on capital closedown and budget setting of the capital programme (Statement of Accounts accounting will be undertaken by another team - this role feeds in spend and financing from the year)
• Link in with the Final Accounts team (Capital Assets) to help produce Statement of Accounts information so some knowledge of the requirements or interface with final accounts will be useful.
• Monitor and produce capital financing data for Prudential Indicators
• Lead on preparation / admin for the Capital Board (Member board overseeing capital projects) and Officer Capital Group
• Actively ensure compliance with all statutory regulations, local and corporate guidelines, policies and procedures and support managers to deliver such processes across the business.
• Working with appropriate Service Heads, to ensure the delivery of effective forecast planning and that long-term plans are produced and acted upon.
• Lead on data cleanse of capital accounting records
• Co-ordinate and guide capital monitoring in Directorate Finance teams.

What you’ll need to succeed You will need experience in a local authority within capital accounting, planning and budget monitoring.