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Children's Social Care Finance Specialist

Service Care Solutions - Legal
Posted 19 hours ago, valid for a month
Location

Bridgwater, Somerset TA70BE, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Children’s Finance Specialist position in Somerset is a temporary contract for an initial period of six months, offering a daily rate of £700 - £800 Umbrella.
  • The role requires a fully qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience, particularly in a local authority setting.
  • The successful candidate will lead the Children’s Social Care team, focusing on financial strategy, governance, and service improvements.
  • Key responsibilities include providing expert financial analysis, developing business cases, and advising on budget management and cost reduction strategies.
  • This fully remote position emphasizes strong leadership in financial management, stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to customer service excellence.
Children’s Finance Specialist Location: SomersetContract: Temporary (6 month initial) Rate: £700 - £800 Per Day Umbrella Start date: ASAP*Fully Remote Working*Contact: .ukJob DescriptionService Care Solutions is recruiting on behalf of a Local Authority in Somerset for a Children Finance Specialist. The client are seeking an experienced and dynamic finance professional to lead our Children’s Social Care team. You will play a crucial role in shaping financial strategy, ensuring strong governance, and driving service improvements. Main responsibilities
  • Work proactively and collaboratively to support our permanent finance team, offering skills and knowledge transfer to enable sustainable working methods in the medium term and to support the career development of our valued team members.
  • Provide expert financial analysis, insight and advice into the development of robust business cases for transformational change in service delivery and to secure associated cost reduction/ income generation.
  • Work proactively with service colleagues to develop ambitious but deliverable interventions to reduce cost and/or generate income at scale based upon your lived experience of meeting similar challenges in other complex organisations.
  • Provide constructive challenge and advice to the Service, ranging from Executive Director, through to individual Budget Holder in order to maintain expenditure within approved budget.
  • May be required to engage with elected members in relation to projects which you become involved in.
  • Provide direct support to the Head of Finance Business Partnering in establishing consistent financial working practices and procedures to a high standard and a disciplined approach to financial evaluation and options appraisal.
Candidate Requirements
  • Fully qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience, including management responsibility within a local authority/council.
  • Proven track record of leadership in financial management, budget planning, and delivering value-for-money strategies.
  • Experience in managing organisational change, implementing new structures, systems, and ways of working.
  • Strong ability to analyse complex financial data, provide high-level financial advice, and develop strategic financial plans.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and team management skills, with a commitment to customer service excellence.
If you are interested in the role, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Miraj at Service Care Solutions on or email .ukService Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.