Senior Finance Analyst - Capital (Public Realm and Assets)

Job Description

Senior Finance Business Partner – Senior Financial Analyst – ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA Qualified - Hybrid – 3 days in

Your new company
At London Borough of Brent, finance is more than just producing the accounts, it’s about enabling transformation, safeguarding public resources, and helping shape the future of our borough. Working closely with colleagues across the council to ensure that financial insight is at the heart of decision-making. Their work is grounded in fairness, inclusion, and respect, and great pride is taken in creating a team environment where every voice is heard, and every success is celebrated. These values are not just aspirations, they are embedded in how they lead, how they support each other, and how they deliver for Brent’s communities.

Your new role
We are recruiting for a Senior Finance Analyst for Capital (Public Realm and Assets) within the Capital, Treasury and Commercial Team.As the Senior Finance Analyst, you will be working as a business partner and be responsible for providing specialist accounting support to the public realm area of the council's capital programme. The SFA will work with the public realm capital area providing professional advice on a broad range of financial issues to support the council's objectives. In addition, they will lead on ensuring the fixed asset register is accurately updated - track asset values, planning for replacement/maintenance and forecast depreciation.The Senior Finance Analyst will report to the relevant Head of Finance. Key activities will include:

• Public‑realm projects often involve multiple contractors, phases, and risks. You will monitor spending against budget, flag cost pressures, ensure financial controls are followed and help project managers make informed decisions
• Manage budgets for long‑term infrastructure and improvement projects
• Public‑realm improvements often rely on managing complex funding mixes: capital grants, developer contributions, borrowing, using internal capital reserves. You will ensure these are used correctly and compliantly.
• Managing and leading staff to achieve high performance and effective operational delivery, including developing and improving staff capabilities.
What you'll need to succeed

• You will be a fully qualified accountant.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to challenge and influence a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of supporting budget management, you will ideally understand capitalisation policies, asset register management, depreciation and impairment, revaluations, IFRS‑based public‑sector accounting and local government capital finance regulations
What you'll get in return
Benefits include:
• competitive salary
• the opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
• generous holiday entitlements starting from 27 days' holiday a year
• a full range of family-friendly policies, including generous maternity and paternity entitlements and childcare schemes
• flexible working patterns, including hybrid working
• training and development opportunities
• good travel links in and out of Wembley and a range of cost saving travel schemes
• access to My Brent Rewards, our dedicated website for staff with big brand discounts and local offers
• work at the state-of-the-art Brent Civic Centre
• season ticket loan for public transport
• cycle to work scheme and good onsite facilities

Closing date 15th March. Please do not wait until the closing date to apply. We will be assessing candidates as they apply.
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