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Assistant Director Finance (Deputy s.151)

Employer
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Location
Greater Manchester
Salary
£94,859     
Closing date
22 Mar 2021

Job Details

Tameside is one of the 10 local authorities that make up Greater Manchester. We’re nestled between the buzz of Manchester City Centre and the beauty of the Peak District, both on our doorstep. We have clear and stable leadership. In the last few years we’ve created an integrated management structure with our local CCG and a shared vision – Our People, Our Place, Our Plan.  

Whilst in a reasonably strong financial position for the next two years, our medium-term financial position is uncertain. Our AD Finance will be critical to ensuring our medium-term financial strategy is delivered.  Establishing a financially sustainable future will involve embedding a new culture of financial accountability across the organisation. This will need clear financial management balancing challenge and support, honesty and transparency, resilience and drive and tenacity aligned to judgement. Building highly productive and positive relationships across the Council will be key.

The role will work particularly closely with Children’s Services and our Growth Directorate to support the delivery of key corporate objectives. Our new AD Finance will be the lead local government finance specialist in the Council. They will have a significant corporate profile, licence to operate across the council and visibility across Greater Manchester.

With a track record of success, the AD Finance will be a qualified accountant with deep local government knowledge and insights. They’ll have had exposure to Children’s Services but will also bring significant experience of working closely on key capital and regeneration programmes. They’ll have the capacity to develop a culture of accountability across the Council in how finances are managed, ensuring people deliver on commitments. They’ll bring highly developed political antennae, excellent judgement that’s been tested at the most senior levels, a positive approach to relationships that builds effective partnerships and good commercial insights. They’ll be a credible leader.

The AD Finance leads a team of around 60 finance professionals focused on all local authority finance specialisms.

Please visit www.proventureconsulting.co.uk to find out more or call either Mark Tobin (07717 725844) or Stephen Cooley (07747 698829) for a confidential discussion.

Closing date: 22 March.

Company

Tameside is a unique place with a wealth of culture, history and heritage. Forged strong and honest we are proud of the sights, sounds and foundations that make it a great place to live, work, invest and visit.

From the canals that run through our streets, to the industrial cotton mills that form our skyline, each of our nine towns bring unique characteristics to the story and the makeup of the Borough.

Located just 12 minutes from Manchester City Centre yet nestled in the foothills of the Peak District; we’re urban opportunity and rural tranquillity, with an estimated population of 226,493, Tameside offers the best of both worlds.

Our central location make us well-connected with excellent local transport links and close proximity to the M60 and M62, means our town centres and industrial hubs have easy access across the region. By rail, the local towns are just a train ride to nearby cities with Manchester Airport just a twenty-minute drive away.

Innovative, digital technology combined with creative businesses have made us home to a number of national and international brands such as Brother, the Hyde Group, and Kerry Foods. Our percentage of small to medium size businesses is higher than the North West average, and our range of artisanal craft and produce markets showcase our entrepreneurial spirit.

We’re makers at heart, and our community spirit is based on the ethic of honesty and loyalty. While we’re known for our graft, we’re innovators too. With a strong manufacturing tradition, particularly in the areas of textiles and innovative advanced engineering, food industries and of advanced manufacturing of chemical, electronic and computer products.

Our forefathers philanthropy gave the people of the borough libraries and public bath houses. Fast forward a couple of centuries and we’re now turning those Old Baths into state-of-the-art digital hubs for start-up businesses to prosper and grow.  We’ve even brought cotton spinning back to the U.K. with English Fine Cottons in Tower Mill putting ‘Made in Britain’ back on the map.

Education is important to us and the Borough hosts one of the top FE colleges in the country with education supporting a thriving student population and Manchester’s universities within easy reach. Our three Advanced Learning Centres feature cutting edge laboratories and kit to ensure our students are prepared to take on high skilled jobs in key growth sectors. With a host of Outstanding Primary and Secondary schools, exceptional healthcare services and a range of affordable housing to boot it’s a perfect place to start and grow a family.

Being part of the Greater Manchester family also means we understand the importance of collaboration.

Partnership helps us get things done, with successes like Vision Tameside and Tameside Wellness Centre and Ashton Old Baths. Tameside is still changing with more projects and plans on the horizon. Significant investment is underway in key employment and mixed use developments such as St Petersfield, our work on our town centre masterplans, and infrastructure programmes will continue to improve our connectivity across the region and beyond.

We are aspirational and determined to be the best connected Borough in the UK with access to world class digital infrastructure so that we can ensure access for all businesses, residents and public services to help them transform.

We care about our people, and we take pride in knowing they’re supported every step of the way, whatever their goals or challenges.

Company info
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Telephone
0161 342 8355
Location
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Tameside One
Market Place
Ashton under Lyne
Lancashire
OL6 6BH
GB

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