Finance Team Manager - Income Collection

Permanent, Full Time

Up to £44,165 per annum

Hybrid Role – within commuting distance of Chelmsford

Job Purpose

The Finance Team Manager (Income Collection) will lead and drive the team delivery of specific tasks in line with the our client’s Debt Recovery Strategy in support of the Service Manager. The successful candidate post holder will be responsible for ensuring high levels of income collection for our client and assist with the review of processes in place to ensure consistent application of our client’s Debt Recovery Strategy and implementing improvements where necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the delivery of the business plan for financial transactions, in support of the wider organisational vision.
• Lead, drive and motivate a team of finance officers, to deliver exemplary standards in the provision and continuous improvement in financial transactions.
• Lead in the identification and clarification of customer needs to deliver process and technology changes, which drive efficiency and value for money.
• Lead in improving financial awareness and capability across the organisation, to promote the culture of empowering budget holders in line with financial regulations.
• Contribute to the production of reports for Income and external customers to manage organisational performance, maximise income and ensure compliance with Financial Regulations.
• Lead on service improvement projects or programmes to achieve best practice and organisational efficiency.
• Lead in maintaining currency on legislation changes and translating these into local policy and procedure, to identify and review changes in technology to assess possibility introduce.
• Working collaboratively across the organisation to deliver and maintain a high level of service to all Functions.
• Lead in identifying, mitigating, managing and resolving risks to minimise financial impact and loss to the organisation.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Educated to RQF level 6 (Bachelor’s degree) or equivalent by experience. Project management accreditation/qualification, or equivalent by experience, would be desirable.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.
• Substantial experience and good working knowledge of income systems and demonstrable accounts receivable/debt collection experience, in a high volume environment.
• Ability to interpret complex and varied information and use it to drive continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills and behaviours, building a diverse team to achieve shared objectives.
• Experience of managing cultural and operational change in a complex environment.
• Good level of commercial awareness, with the ability to build effective working relationships at senior level, with internal and external customers, suppliers and partners.
• Ability to evaluate and support innovative approaches to improving service delivery and value for money, with a strong focus on performance and delivery.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to negotiate, constructively challenge and influence at senior level across the Council and external partners.
• Strong excel skills and ability to manipulate and interpret large data sets are essential for this role