My Local Government client is looking to recruit a qualified Finance Manager to join the team on a permanent basis. Reporting into the Corporate Finance Business Partner, your role will be to manage and deliver timely financial and management accounting services including budgeting, medium- and long-term financial planning, project support, forecasting, in-year financial reporting (including the closure of the annual accounts) and control. Day to day you will be responsible for: Leading on the co-ordination and production of the in-year monitoring reports, ensuring key monthly financial monitoring tasks assigned are achieved to a high quality, consolidating service finance business partner reports on a monthly basis and producing clear, high quality, easy to read corporate financial positions reports (both on a monthly exception and quarterly detailed basis).Lead on the collation of detailed revenue budgets including growth and transformation cost/efficiency programmes for inclusion within the council''s budget and in line with the MTFP.Update and publish the annual budget monitoring timetable each year, briefing all service finance business partnering teams and ensuring service managers and director sign-off is achieved.Be responsible for the close management, support and development of junior staff across the team.Take responsibility for the management of resource allocation, maintaining the ability to plan for external support as needed such that any peaks and troughs of