Senior Finance Team Leader (Continuous Improvement)

Are you a finance professional who wants to work in a unique environment, helping the City Corporation build on its successes by developing and evolving, so it can continue to impact in the City, across London and globally?

The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile, but their work goes beyond that of a local authority and their impact echoes far beyond these boundaries. They are dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, but their work contributes to a diverse and sustainable London as well as a globally successful UK.

In addition to the usual services provided by a local authority they run their own Police Force, the nation's Central Criminal Court, maintain five London Bridges and are the London Port Health Authority for the river Thames. They also have responsibility for food markets, over 11,000 acres of green spaces across London and cultural institutions such as the Barbican Centre. The City Bridge Trust, their charitable funder, has awarded 7,500 grants totaling £350 million to charities supporting Londoners so far.

Over the last year the Finance Team has been through a huge transformation programme, focusing on modernising and improving the support they are giving the Corporation. They are now recruiting the final few roles to continue this transformation journey, improve governance and support key areas across the Corporation.

The Senior Finance Team Leader will be focused on ensuring a Continuous Improvement approach across finance, providing training and support to the team to help deliver a proactive, customer focused and high performing finance service – leading on best practices/automation, as well as supporting service leads to develop and implement the strategies of the Corporation

They will coordinate and manage elements within the finance matrix model, helping deliver organisational objectives. Due to the focus on Continuous Improvement the role will cover all core areas of finance such as closure of the Corporation's accounts, budget monitoring and also support the coordination and provision of quality assurance over the financial elements of corporate reports, including statutory returns.

To be suitable for the role you need to be a fully qualified accountant with proven experience of driving through change and a strong technical understanding. The ability to translate complex financial information to senior stakeholder to aid decision making is also essential.

For a confidential discussion please contact Will Ryan willryan@ivyrockpartners.com 07909030965.

To apply for the role, please send through a CV and supported statement. The statement should be no more than 2 pages and should say why you are interested in the role and highlight your relevant experience.