Essential Experience

• Significant post qualification experience in financial management, budgeting and reporting, management reporting and advising.
• Significant experience of a managing financial teams.
• Significant experience of advising and guiding business decisions within corporate governance frameworks in order to ensure compliance and managing risks.
• Experience of overseeing modernisation and significant improvement to functions.
• Experience and knowledge in all relevant statutory, regulatory and professional accounting standards.

Essential Skills

• Have analytical and judgement skills – ability to analyse diverse sets of information.
• Planning and organisational skills – able to formulate and implement long term plans.  Able to think laterally and creatively to options appraisals and plans.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to influence, persuade and negotiate with senior stakeholders. 
• Driven to deliver with enthusiasm – highly motivated with a proactive approach including a strong ability to meet deadlines and deliver quality work.
• Able to work collaboratively to achieve shared goals – be business focused and flexible when meeting operational needs and expectations.
• Strong focus on customer relationship skills.
• Stakeholder & Change Management - Ability to challenge operationally and strategically with a professional approach with the ability to lead on communicating a clear vision, new ways of working and cultural change. 

Qualifications

• You must be CCAB qualified  (full member of ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA) or equivalent

Conditions

Based at Lloyd House in Birmingham city centre, you will work a 36.5 hour week. There is a requirement to work flexibly at all times with regard to workloads and priorities, and a requirement to travel to other locations to build collaborative relationships. 

Advert closing date: 21 April 2020

West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions.  The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future. 

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.

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