Finance Manager - #1729306

Permanent

Grade 6 - £50,788 - £62,801

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

The Finance Manager is a strategic business partner providing high-quality financial insight, advice, and challenge to directorate stakeholders, including the Deputy Managing Director and corporate functional areas. The role plays a critical part in driving performance, ensuring value for money, and supporting informed decision-making by integrating financial and operational data.

Key responsibilities include leading on business case development, savings reviews, monthly financial reporting, forecasting, budget setting, and year-end outturn reporting.

The Finance Manager also manages a team, providing leadership and direction to ensure the delivery of accurate, timely, and insightful financial support across the service.

The post-holder works closely with service leads to enhance financial understanding, embed accountability for budgets and forecasts, and identify opportunities for service improvement. They engage proactively with stakeholders, including attendance at Directorate Management Team (DMT) sessions, to influence and support strategic and operational decision-making.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, andwe arecommitted to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance withUK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

We strive to advertise all roles for a minimum of two weeks. However, due to high application volumes vacancies may close earlier than the stated deadline. We encourage you to submit your application without delay to ensure consideration.