Salary range: £62,748 - £66,156 p.a. inc. London Weighting

Contract: Permanent

Hours of work: 36 hours per week

Location: Civic Centre and other locations from time to time  

An excellent opportunity.... 

Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough where the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium dominates the skyline. Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here.

The Post

We are recruiting to a Senior Finance Analyst (SFA) position to support the Children and Young People (CYP) department focusing on Schools and the Dedicated Schools grant (DSG).

As an SFA, working as a Business Partner, you will be responsible for providing specialist and senior financial, and accounting support for Schools and the four blocks of the DSG namely Schools Block, High Needs, Early Years, and the Central Schools Services Block. The SFA would support all officers within the service area and schools, providing them with high level professional advice on a broad range of financial issues and their relation to the Council's corporate and managerial objectives. You will be expected to be familiar with the services provided by the department and the complexities around them, including funding arrangements.

The Senior Finance Analyst will report into the relevant Head of Finance. They will provide officers and senior stakeholders with high level professional advice and make a positive contribution to the delivery of the service. Key activities will include:

• Being actively involved in material business decisions to ensure immediate and longer-term implications, opportunities and risks are fully considered, and alignment with the organisation’s financial strategy.
• Leading the promotion of good financial management so that public money is safeguarded at all times and used appropriately, economically, efficiently and effectively.
• Promoting and developing a culture that supports a Self-Service approach to service delivery.
• Ensuring a systematic approach to financial control alongside the modernisation and streamlining of all processes.
• Supporting the departmental Head of Finance in the provision of high-level professional advice on a very broad range of financial issues.
• Managing and leading staff to achieve high performance and effective operational delivery, including developing and improving staff capability 

The Person

• A driven and motivated fully qualified accountant. 
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to challenge and influence a range of stakeholders. 
• Experience of supporting budget management for complex demand led services is essential. 
• Full details are provided in the attached job description and person specification.

Supporting information - As Part of your application please include a supporting statement.

Closing Date: 19 May 2024 (23:00)

Additional Information

If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the "Apply Now" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.

Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.

We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that posts working with children, young people and vulnerable adults are subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances.

The information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights, can be found here.

Brent has a positive approach to flexible working.

As a disability confident employer Brent welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on recruitment@brent.gov.uk
 

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