London Borough of Hounslow is looking for a head of finance – pensions and treasury to join its finance team.
Head of Finance – Pensions & Treasury
Permanent, Full-Time, 36 Hours Per week
£ 65,880 – £79,589 per annum.
Job Reference: R0006018
About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It’s about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a disability confident employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to lead our finance team as the head of finance – pension and treasury. In this role, you’ll be the strategic lead for the £1.2bn Hounslow Pension Fund and the council’s treasury management for an organisation with c£1bn annual expenditure.
You will play a key role in setting the financial strategy in relation to investment and borrowing plans to enable delivery for an ambitious council that is serious about improving the lives of residents. You will work closely with advisors and the Pension Fund Panel to manage all aspects of the Hounslow Pension Fund.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The Pension Fund is managed within the finance function. The fund holds £1.2bn investment portfolio, has c7,000 active members and c15,000 current pensioners and deferred members. The fund has had a very stable management team for a long period and the funds performance has been strong.
The head of pensions and treasury will be the senior lead for all matters related to the pension fund taking responsibility for ensuring effective engagement with key stake holders, management of the day to day activity on the pension fund and longer term strategic management of both the pension fund and the council’s treasury management. The post holder will also be required to produce and present reports to the Pension Fund Board, Pension Fund Panel and Cabinet. The role involves working with a wide range of professional advisors and councillors.
We are looking for a talented individual with excellent interpersonal skills and possessing a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail to build on the strong foundations left by the departing team members.
About You
We are looking for a highly skilled finance professional with experience of pension and treasury management in a large organisation. You will be as comfortable driving improvements to processes as you are engaging with decision makers to develop strategy. With a keen eye for detail, you will ensure committee reports present complex financial information in a way that is transparent and open to inform and support decision making.
Your Skills
- Ability to work effectively and establish positive relationships with non-finance colleagues in a way that establishes confidence, credibility and trust.
- Ability to review, analyse, challenge, interpret and present complex financial investment and borrowing options.
- Knowledge and/or experience of pension fund accounting, treasury management processes and producing committee reports.
Desirable for The Role
- CCAB qualified or other relevant professional qualifications, candidates with significant QBE also welcomed.
- Experience of Pension Fund and Investment Strategy.
- Previous experience of Local Government would be beneficial but not essential for this role.
Essential For The Role
- DBS Basic.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Robert.Meldrum@hounslow.gov.uk or Rupaben.Raghwani@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 0208 583 2312
Interviews for this job will be held in September.
Closing date: 5th September 2023
Apply to this role here.
