Director of Finance

Salary: £109,269 to £131,207 (Grade 14)

Full Time – Permanent Opportunity. Flexible work style.

Be part of Wolverhampton - a diverse and inclusive city, packed with passion, pride and endless potential.

At the City of Wolverhampton Council, we’re embarking on the next phase of our journey of transformation and change, ensuring we deliver on the Our City, Our Plan priorities and Our Future Council programme – our proactive and pragmatic response to local government financial challenges.

We’re looking for a confident and inspirational leader to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, to understand their needs and put residents at the heart of everything we do, embracing our ‘One Council’ approach and help to deliver our aspiration that Wulfrunians live longer and healthier lives.

This is an exciting time for you as a strategic thinking problem-solver to join our senior leadership team. To meet the challenges we face as a city and council, the senior leadership team has been aligned to three strategic themes – Organisation, Economy and Families.

We are looking for someone to fill the role of Director of Finance - which sits in the Organisation strategic theme - you will be responsible for a dynamic portfolio of services, putting residents at the heart of what we do while responding to the city and council’s priorities at a time when local government is facing sizeable financial challenges.

• Don’t have local government experience but have significant financial experience
  – we want to hear from you
• Aspiring to be a Section 151 Officer, with statutory responsibility for the Council’s financial affairs, or want to use your Section 151 Officer experience to ‘challenge’ the norm – we want to hear from you
• Want to be our strategic lead for finance but want to lead in a matrix cross cutting way for our council and city #onecouncil – we want to hear from you

The successful candidate will be accountable for leading a range of services including:

• Strategic Finance (financial advice, budget strategy, final accounts, etc)
• Internal Audit
• Procurement
• Commercial Services
• Revenues and Benefits
• The Hub (payroll, banking etc) and
• You will also be the Council’s Section 151 Officer or aspire to be the Section 151 Officer (as a minimum however, you will be required to be the Deputy Section 151 Officer)

The City of Wolverhampton Council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes your application irrespective of your gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion or belief.

If you would like a chat or want to come in to see what it’s like to work in our amazing council and city then please contact Mark Taylor, Deputy Chief Executive via mark.taylor@wolverhampton.gov.uk