About the role
We have an exciting opportunity within our Finance Operations Team for a Strategic Exchequer Services Manager. This is a new role focused on the County Council’s debt management and collection of income. We are investing significant resources and improving systems in this key priority area to drive change and ultimately ensure funds owed to the Council are secured and collected promptly.
The post holder will play a leading role in devising and implementing the change programme need to improve performance in this area. You will play a crucial role in the Council’s overall financial management and stewardship of public funds, and be accountable to chief officers and Members for the effective management of debt and around £253m of total income collection, leading a turnaround of the current trajectory of rising levels of monies owed.
The role is initially fixed term until March 2025. Significant experience in Local Government or public services credit control, particularly within Adult Social Care Debt would be advantageous. The role will report to the Head of Financial Operations (who leads the wider service across the 4-Council Lead Authority partnership) and will need to respond to considerable complexity, instigating change, improvement, and reform across the organisation. The post holder will take responsibility for considerable engagement with senior internal stakeholders across frontline departments (including Adult Social Care, Education, Place & Sustainability and Property) as well as corporate colleagues from finance, accountancy, enterprise applications, IT and customer contact, as well as Members. Leadership and management skills were be needed both for the direction of staff employed in the central debt team as well as relationship building and influencing the wider organisation.
Cambridgeshire County Council offers flexible working, and this role will be hybrid with a minimum of two days a week office based at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, Alconbury, Cambridgeshire.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
If you would like to understand more about the role please contact Alison Balcombe, Head of Finance Operations via alison.balcombe@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. The intention is to hold interviews on the 12 and 16 October.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
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We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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