About the Borough Joining us, you get to work for not just one high performing London Borough, but two. Sutton and Kingston councils have a number of shared services serving both authorities, with some teams and roles more focussed on one Council than the other, but the majority are shared across both, meaning you get multiple opportunities to learn from a wider pool of activities and two different political bodies. We work flexibly in both Sutton and Kingston offices, and support working at home or flexible working patterns that enable you to tailor your working and personal life. We provide the equipment and tools to enable you to work flexibly, and in return ask you to use that flexibility to be creative and ambitious in the services we deliver. About the Role This role sits within the Kingston and Sutton shared finance service but focuses on supporting Kingston Council only. This is a key role in supporting the S151 and Deputy S151 with financial planning and leading the financial support for Kingston Council's major capital projects. You will lead work on the medium term financial strategy and plan and ensure detailed budgets are prepared. Alongside this you will support budget holders for some of the Council's most significant projects such as the redevelopment of the Cambridge Road Estate and ensure good financial governance around the capital programme is maintained. About Us The financial planning and major projects team is a new team within the Kingston and Sutton shared finance service. The team was created following a restructure to ensure that Kingston has dedicated support to it's financial planning process and has clear financial governance of its capital programme and professional support to its major projects. This brings together some functions that were previously in separate teams within the service, with the opportunity to build on the synergies of these activities but also work closely with other parts of the shared finance service and be a visible leader across the Council. About You To succeed in this role you will need to be an experienced finance professional and confident communicator, able to get the best from your team and to work effectively across team and service boundaries. You will need to be a qualified accountant with local government experience and adept at explaining complex local government finance issues. You could be briefing senior leaders on topics such as the local government finance settlement or the financial implications of a potential capital investment decision so you will need to be confident on such topics and able to explain them without the use of jargon. You will be leading a new team so your ability to motivate and support the people you work with and provide inspirational leadership will also be key. This role will be working both across the finance service and across the Council as a whole so an ability to build positive working relationships is also vital.