Exchequer Services Manager
The Role
This post is politically restricted.
Lancaster City Council is an award winning, ambitious and inclusive Council, serving a wide range of communities across city, coast and countryside, including the historic City of Lancaster, Morecambe, Carnforth and the surrounding area. Our Resources team has a large and diverse range of responsibilities including Finance, Exchequer, ICT, Audit and Revenues and Benefits services. The Resources team is well integrated and provides a really positive, welcoming environment with a notably professional and focussed work ethic in supporting the Council’s environmental, economic and community priorities for the district.
The Exchequer Services team exists to ensure the Council is able to effectively secure, deploy and manage its resources in pursuit of its ambitious goals. This is a challenging post, and we are looking for an experienced manager to lead a small team dealing with a variety of central functions including payroll and allowances, payments, sundry debtors, and income management.
You will be responsible for managing and driving forward further changes and improvements within the section to ensure value for money, including performance management arrangements generally.
This post is permanent. The hours of work are 37 hours per week, working Monday to Friday. This post will require a hybrid approach to working, with attendance at onsite and online meetings, bookable workspaces and working from home. Meetings may be in Lancaster, Morecambe or elsewhere in the District and County. Your assumed place of work will be Lancaster Town Hall.
Flexible working friendly – we offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and opportunity to work with your team to establish working hours to enable you to maximise your work-life balance.
About You
You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.
Our Benefits
Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.
Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.
We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.
At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve, and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview.
For an informal discussion about this role and the opportunities that it offers, please contact either Paul Thompson (Chief Officer (Resources) and s151 Officer), phone 01524 582603 or email pthompson@lancaster.gov.uk
Interview date: TBC
