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Finance Change Manager
- Location Birmingham
- Job type Temporary
- Salary £500 - 550 per day
- Discipline Local Government
- Reference J85612
Finance Business Change Manager
Start: ASAP
Rate: £550 (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 Months Initially (likely extension)
Hybrid Working Arrangement: Hybrid
Responsibilities:
- Translate Workstream Leads’ objectives into actionable plans, update the Project Board on progress, risks, and issues, and oversee procured external reviewers
- Analyze current practices with SMEs to identify inefficiencies, duplication, and gaps in processes
- Coordinate gap analysis of current practices against regulations, prioritize improvements, and plan steps for all workstreams
- Facilitate diagnostic activities and align practices with best standards (e.g., CIPFA codes)
- Develop solutions, draft SOPs, update governance, and embed new practices across workstreams
- Support people-focused change, including building competencies aligned to CIPFA accreditation
- Create rollout plans, training materials, and communications for new processes, including workshops and stakeholder engagement
Person Specification:
- Qualified accountant or qualifies by experience with knowledge of service review activities
- Excellent communicator, able to work with all levels and proficient in succinct report writing
- Able to work on own initiative, in a collaborative environment, sharing tasks and changing requirements
- Public sector experience preferred, but knowledge of Charity and Traded Service operations beneficial
- MS Office proficiency, inc Teams / SharePoint and able to work in a professional manner, understanding the need for audit controls
- Team player who is able to collaborate with other professional teams to achieve the overall workstream goals
If this looks like something of interest and you would like to hear more about the role, please apply and we can discuss further.