The financial planning and major projects team is a new team within the Kingston and Sutton shared finance service.

This role sits within the Kingston and Sutton shared finance service but focuses on supporting Kingston Council only.

This is a key role in supporting the S151 and Deputy S151 with financial planning and leading the financial support for Kingston Council’s major capital projects. You will lead work on the medium term financial strategy and plan and ensure detailed budgets are prepared. Alongside this you will support budget holders for some of the Council’s most significant projects such as the redevelopment of the Cambridge Road Estate and ensure good financial governance around the capital programme is maintained.

To succeed in this role you will need to be an experienced finance professional and confident communicator, able to get the best from your team and to work effectively across team and service boundaries. You will need to be a qualified accountant with local government experience and adept at explaining complex local government finance issues. You could be briefing senior leaders on topics such as the local government finance settlement or the financial implications of a potential capital investment decision so you will need to be confident on such topics and able to explain them without the use of jargon.

You will be leading a new team so your ability to motivate and support the people you work with and provide inspirational leadership will also be key. This role will be working both across the finance service and across the Council as a whole so an ability to build positive working relationships is also vital.