Waverley Court
Salary: £91,689 - £103,204
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the UK's most high-profile and complex local authorities. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will provide strategic leadership across capital finance, major projects, the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), group accounts, treasury management, and financial systems.
You'll oversee multi-billion-pound programmes, shape long-term investment strategies, and ensure the financial sustainability of core services and future ambitions-from housing delivery to infrastructure, digital modernisation and inclusive growth.
What You'll Do
- Lead the development and delivery of the Council's capital strategy and investment plans.
- Provide strategic financial advice on major capital and housing projects.
- Oversee the treasury function, ensuring sound borrowing and investment decisions.
- Manage the preparation of the Council's group accounts and statutory financial reporting.
- Drive innovation in financial systems and insight, enabling more agile, transparent and informed decision-making.
- Represent the Council in key partnerships, audit and governance forums.
- Develop and lead a high-performing Corporate Finance team with a clear focus on outcomes, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for a values-led and forward-thinking finance leader with:
- A full CCAB qualification (e.g. CIPFA, ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA).
- Experience operating at a senior level in a large, complex organisation-ideally within the public sector.
- A deep understanding of capital financing, HRA, treasury, and financial governance.
- Strong strategic thinking, political awareness, and the ability to lead transformation across systems, people, and processes.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to communicate complex financial issues with clarity and impact.
This position requires a Standard Disclosure check, Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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