Assistant Director of Finance and IT

Vacant

Contact details

• Whilst role is being recruited telephone: 01233 330547

The Head of Finance and IT is responsible for accountancy, exchequer, fraud, IT, procurement and revenues and benefits.

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.

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.

IT responsibilities:

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

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.

Job description and structure chart

• View the Assistant Director of Finance and IT job description [pdf] 350KB
• View the Finance structure chart - coming soon (if you require an accessible version of this document please email accessibility@ashford.gov.uk).

Salary scales can be found under the salaries section.