The Opportunity

This role will lead a focused programme of financial recovery and transformation across adult social care commissioning. The client has identified significant outstanding debt linked to commissioned services delivered on behalf of health partners and requires a clear plan to recover this income while strengthening the systems and processes that underpin financial management.

This is not a traditional finance role. The Council is seeking a leader with a strong commissioning-led transformation background who can shape and deliver a system-wide approach to financial recovery and improvement. While support is available from the in-house finance team on technical areas such as accountancy, debt recovery and financial controls, the postholder will be expected to operate independently in driving change.

Key Responsibilities

You will take ownership of:

• Developing the overall policy and approach to financial recovery and financial management ...