Project Finance Manager

My London based Local Government client is looking to recruit a Project Finance Manager for a 12 month fixed term period. Working in the Adult Social Care and Public Health Finance Team, your role will be to provide oversight to and be responsible for the delivery of the medium-term efficiency / savings proposals. You will also be responsible for tracking and managing performance of each workstream on delivery.

Specific Duties Will Include:

1. To be responsible for scoping efficiency improvement proposals and when required, contributing to the development of business cases. This includes analysing financial and performance data to support the identification and delivery of efficiency initiatives.
2. To be accountable for developing and implementing a robust methodology to track and monitor the delivery of efficiencies and savings.
3. To provide monthly performance reports to track savings delivery, offering assurance and highlighting any risks to delivery of the programme. Report to workstream Project Boards, the Programme Board, and Members.
4. To provide workstreams with advice on benefits realisation, ensuring the successful and timely delivery of savings while driving continuous improvement and mitigating risks to project timelines.

To be successful you will need to be able to demonstrate working knowledge of finance, business case development and benefit tracking as well as experience of successfully leading or managing the finance aspects of projects including monitoring efficiency programmes.

The role requires a candidate with Local Government finance experience, ideally from an adult social care environment. It also requires you to be at least CCAB part qualified.

THis is a 12 month fixed term role with a salary band of 50,000 to 60,000. The role also requires a presence in the office 2 days a week.