Assistant Director of Finance and IT

This post is vacant and for an interim period there are three Service Leads in place as follows:

Customers, Revenues and Benefits - Peter Budden

Revenues and Benefits responsibilities:

• Administration of council tax.
• Business rates.
• Housing and council tax benefit, including responsibility for the investigation and prosecution of benefit fraud.

Finance - Lee Foreman

Accountancy responsibilities:

• Preparation of the council’s annual budget.
• Final accounts.
• Budget monitoring.
• Medium term financial planning.
• Treasury management.
• Financial advice to councillors, management and services.

Exchequer responsibilities:

• Payment of all sums due from the council.
• Accounting for all money received.
• Collection and recovery of all miscellaneous debts due.

Fraud responsibilities:

• Prevention, investigation and detection of financial irregularity, avoidance, evasion and fraud.
• Promoting an anti-fraud and corruption culture. This is achieved through awareness, training and risk management.

Procurement and Contract Management responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive and expert procurement and contract advice and support to managers and officers across the whole council in order to maximize on-going efficiencies and savings.

IT and Digital - Robin Jones

IT responsibilities:

• Systems development.
• Technical support and telephony.
• IT procurement and contract management.
• IT project management.
• GIS mapping.

Digital:

• Digital transformation.
• Efficiency-saving solutions.
• Website.