Assistant Head of Service, Finance


Company:	Exeter City Council
Salary:	£55,910 - £58,902
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Exeter, EX1 1JN
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	7 Aug 2026
Closing date:	30 Aug 2026

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Summary

About you:

You will be a professional qualified accountant with local government experience across a broad range of financial services. You will have experience managing multi-disciplinary finance teams, maintaining high performance, and delivering customer-focused services. You will combine strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to motivate and develop managers and teams. Excellent communication, technical and people skills will enable you to provide effective operational leadership.

About the role:

Reporting to the Head of Service - Finance you will be required to provide operational leadership across key Finance Service areas, including Accountancy, Transactional Services, Revenues, Welfare and Benefits, and finance systems. Working closely with the Head of Service - Finance, you will help ensure services are efficient, legally compliant, customer focused and continuously improving. This role supports strong financial governance, effective budget management, statutory compliance and high-quality advice to senior leaders, elected Members, budget holders and service managers. You will play a key part of medium-term financial planning, audit activity and development of policies, procedures and controls.

About the team:

To support the Council's vision, we in Finance work to the corporate objective of 'Leading a Well Run Council'. You will help lead and support a range of specialist teams that serve internal and external customers. You'll play a role in shaping the service's direction and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

What next?

If we sound like the right fit for you and you feel like the right fit for us we would welcome your application. Please click on the Apply button at the bottom of this page.

Alternatively if you would like to find out more about the post, the team or working with us at the Council please contact Michelle White, Head of Service Finance at michelle.white@exeter.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close any vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received.

Our commitment

At Exeter City Council we are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve.

To support this commitment we will strive to implement reasonable adjustments to support any members of our communities who face barriers in recruitment processes, irrespective of the reason.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

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