Finance Partner
Newcastle City Council
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom£50,269 - £54,495 per annum (Pay award pending)Closes: 22 May
One year fixed-term contract opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled finance professional who is passionate about providing excellent financial support to managers across the organisation. If you’re a finance professional looking for a role with variety and challenge, then we’d like to hear from you.
Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. It’s an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.
Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence.
From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.
We want you to help us make Newcastle a great place to work, visit and live in.
Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values:
We are a highly performing finance team that provides excellent support to managers across the organisation. As part of the Financial Strategy team you will have an opportunity to play a key role in meeting the challenge of maintaining the council’s financial health and sustainability in an increasingly challenging financial environment.
Working closely with senior managers across the organisation, you will develop and support opportunities to transform the delivery of financial services across the council. The postholder will need to develop and maintain effective working relationships to support co-operative ways of working, effective decision making and management of financial resources.
The successful candidate will play a key role in tracking and evaluating benefits realised through our ambitious and transformational change programme: Change & Innovation Newcastle.
We are looking for candidates who can a demonstrate a track record of working collaboratively with senior leaders, finance team members, and services across the organisation to support our change and transformation programme.
The full job person specification lists the essential skills and knowledge we are looking for in this role.
If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have:
We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.
Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.
If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors then we want to hear from you.
For more information on the post, contact tim.gorman@newcastle.gov.uk
Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form. Before completing the form please ensure you read the supporting documents.
Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox
The closing date for all applications is 22nd May 2026.
Please note, all fixed term posts are available for secondment, for a secondment you must gain your managers approval prior to applying.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled finance professional who is passionate about providing excellent financial support to managers across the organisation. If you’re a finance professional looking for a role with variety and challenge, then we’d like to hear from you.
Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. It’s an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.
Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence.
From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.
We want you to help us make Newcastle a great place to work, visit and live in.
Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values:
- Proud
- Fair
- Ambitious
We are a highly performing finance team that provides excellent support to managers across the organisation. As part of the Financial Strategy team you will have an opportunity to play a key role in meeting the challenge of maintaining the council’s financial health and sustainability in an increasingly challenging financial environment.
Working closely with senior managers across the organisation, you will develop and support opportunities to transform the delivery of financial services across the council. The postholder will need to develop and maintain effective working relationships to support co-operative ways of working, effective decision making and management of financial resources.
The successful candidate will play a key role in tracking and evaluating benefits realised through our ambitious and transformational change programme: Change & Innovation Newcastle.
We are looking for candidates who can a demonstrate a track record of working collaboratively with senior leaders, finance team members, and services across the organisation to support our change and transformation programme.
The full job person specification lists the essential skills and knowledge we are looking for in this role.
If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have:
- A generous annual leave allowance.
- The option to buy additional annual leave.
- Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
- An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
- Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
- Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
- Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network
- Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres
- A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.
We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.
Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.
If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors then we want to hear from you.
For more information on the post, contact tim.gorman@newcastle.gov.uk
Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form. Before completing the form please ensure you read the supporting documents.
Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox
The closing date for all applications is 22nd May 2026.
Please note, all fixed term posts are available for secondment, for a secondment you must gain your managers approval prior to applying.