Finance Manager Property

Are you a finance professional who wants to work for an organisation that is going to help you shape and develop your career?

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. Delivering on our plan to build a Fairer Westminster | Westminster City Council

At the centre of everything at Westminster is our people, which is why we have developed the Westminster Way, our people strategy that influences our culture. It ensures we are a diverse, inclusive, and caring organisation, that empowers our people to be leaders and realise our full potential in order to deliver services to our residents, communities, and businesses.

The Finance Manager Property supports the Corporate Property service, providing a business partnering service, focused on building relationships, helping them understand financial information and aiding with decision making. A significant part of the role will encompass analytical work on the property investment portfolio and liaison with managing agents. Part of the role will include reviewing current processes and automating as far as possible. The role will also provide financial and commercial analysis for business cases and manage the financial modelling of new services.

To be suitable for the role you need to be a qualified accountant with proven experience of building productive relationships stakeholders in a large complex organisation and being able to challenge and influence. You will also need to demonstrate effective commercial and financial skills. Experience of working with supporting Property or Commercial teams in a public sector setting is highly desirable.

Westminster City Council offers a hybrid working arrangement and excellent benefits including flexible working, an enhanced maternity packages, generous annual leave and an exceptional pension.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

For a confidential discussion or to see the job description please contact Will Ryan at Ivy Rock Partners on willryan@ivyrockpartners.com 07909030965.

The closing date for application is Monday 14th July.

Interviews will be on the 30th July in person.