Cornwall Council
Strategic Finance Manager
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Why Cornwall Council?
- Supportive Environment: You'll be welcomed into a friendly atmosphere that encourages both personal and professional development.
- Influence and Impact: Use your skills to influence various services and see the direct impact of your work on our communities.
- Positive Culture: Work in a people-centred, value-based organisation that promotes a positive culture and values your opinions.
What We Offer:
- Supportive Culture: Be welcomed into a friendly environment that encourages your personal and professional development.
- People-Centred Values: Grow in an organisation that promotes a positive culture and values your opinions.
- Impactful Work: Use your skills to influence a variety of services and witness the direct impact of our work on our communities.
- Your Voice Matters: At Cornwall Council, your opinions will help shape how we do things. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a real difference.
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The Role:
Our Strategic Finance Managers have a high degree of autonomy and discretion as they support the S151 Officer in financial advice and controls across the Council. We are looking for someone who is able to work in a complex, ambitious organisation and can balance the challenges of new initiatives with sound financial advice.
We are looking for someone who is professional, enthusiastic and motivated who can:
- Provide Strategic Financial business partnership to the senior leadership team
- Analyse, summarise and communicate financial implications of complex projects and budgets to a range of stakeholders.
- Shape and challenge the development of financial plans.
- Lead and develop a professional finance team
- Contribute and develop the finance team’s continuous improvement ambitions, improving data management and reporting solutions
Working Pattern:
The permanent role is 37 hours per week. Hybrid working is available and supported by supply of IT equipment. 1-2 days a week contact time to support the directorate and services in a business partner role, along side contact time with the finance team to help coach, develop and improve our ways of working.
What you’ll need to succeed:
Essential skills and Knowledge
- Qualifications & Experience: You are CCAB qualified with significant relevant experience in financial accounting, experience of managing teams to deliver successful outcomes.
- Financial Management and Advice: You have a strong understanding of strategic financial planning, and ability to translate this to medium-term financial planning. You are able to demonstrate a sound understanding of the local government legislative and regulatory framework in your financial advice.
- Stakeholder engagement: You are able to clearly report key issues to stakeholders to enable informed decision making.
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Communication & Collaboration:
- Clear Communication and presenting information: You excel at explaining complex financial information in an easy-to-understand manner to non-financial managers.
- Coaching and mentoring: You foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team, setting clear goals and monitoring performance.
- Relationship Building & collaboration: You have proven ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and external partners.
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
- employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services
- relocation expenses
Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here - Strategic Finance Manager Role Profile [https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/sxnfdds0/9241-strategic-finance-manager-july-2026.pdf]
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For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Tracy Stepney, Head of Finance: tracy.stepney@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council [https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/working-here/]
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options [https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/working-here/benefits-of-working-for-the-council/].
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
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