Title: Capital and Treasury Manager
Salary: up to £55,159
Hours: 36.25
Contract: Permanent
Location: Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Churchgate House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6EU
Advert Closing date: Monday 8th July 2019
Interviews: Monday 15th July & Thursday 18th July 2019
Role Profile
About the Role:
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of the ten Greater Manchester Council Leaders and the directly elected Mayor. It has wide-ranging functions and an ambitious agenda to make Greater Manchester a better place in which to grow up, live, work and invest.
We are looking for an experienced qualified accountant, someone interested in pursuing a career with a dynamic, exciting and socially responsible employer. This is a new senior role which will report directly into the Deputy Treasurer GMCA and as a key member of the GMCA Finance Team this role will develop and provide a wide range of effective short to long term Capital Programme and Treasury Management Services to GMCA. We are currently in the process of bringing Treasury Management Services in house and you will lead on that activity and develop our in house function and processes.
GMCA is at the forefront of delivering complex investment polices across Greater Manchester and this role will assist in providing financial modelling, advice and support in delivering on these policy priorities. The new role is crucial to the development and effective delivery of the wide ranging and complex GMCA Capital Strategy and the associated GMCA Treasury Management Strategy and Minimum Revenue Provision Policy.
A key part of this new role is the effective day to day and long term management of the complex and varied cash flow of GMCA and its Transport Executive TfGM. At 31 March 2019 the GMCA Capital Financing Requirement was £1,745.4m and external borrowing was £1,568.3m which had increased by some £238.6m from the previous year.
About you:
You will have experience in operating successfully at a technical finance level, demonstrating a clear grasp of the challenges and opportunities of working within a publicly accountable organisation within the accounting and finance rules applicable to the public sector.
You will have experience of managing short to long term cash flows and experience in arranging the associated borrowing and investment activity to effectively manage the security and risk of the treasury position of a large diverse organisation.
You will have an understanding and awareness of the sensitive nature of working in a political environment.
You will have experience of writing accurate and concise reports on complex financial facts that clearly identify the potential impact(s) or consequence(s) on the business and the ability to describe and present financial information in a format easily understood by managers and members of a non-finance background.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to establish positive relationships with staff at all levels, external organisations, groups and individuals which generate confidence, respect and trust.
Our work and about us:
Greater Manchester is one of the country's most successful city-regions. It is home to more than 2.8 million people and with an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland. Greater Manchester is at the forefront of policy innovation and new thinking about how to transform the lives of local citizens by nurturing a world class, competitive, caring and economically sustainable place to live. It was the first city region to win a devolution agreement with the government in late 2014. In May 2017 the residents of Greater Manchester voted for their first ever Mayor for Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham. This is an exciting time to be working in the city region for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
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Your Application
Although the position is permanent, we will consider secondment or flexible working opportunities.
Please apply via the application form by Monday 8th July.
Interviews will take place on Monday 15 July and Thursday 18 July.
Please contact Christine Buxton if you have specific questions regarding the role via Christine.buxton@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk