Senior Manager; Financial Skills

Location: Flexible, with UK travel required

Contract type: Permanent, full-time

Salary: Competitive, starting from £85,000 per annum

About IMPOWER

IMPOWER is the country’s largest independent management consultancy focussed exclusively on helping our public sector clients deliver on their ambitions. For us that means a focus on productivity, improved outcomes and financial sustainability. We hold a profound belief in the innate value of public services; a better public sector is the cornerstone of a better society.

IMPOWER help public service leaders produce lasting, positive change in complex systems. We exist because public services can be – and should be – improved. For us, improving public services is fundamentally about improving the lives of citizens. We have consistently demonstrated that performance can be improved and that this improved performance can be sustained, citizens’ lives made noticeably better and public services left more affordable, sustainable and resilient to manage future challenges.

IMPOWER is ambitious and growing! Strong financial understanding and analysis underpins our work, we are seeking colleagues who are ready for challenge, growth and opportunity over the coming years as we continue to scale the number of clients we enable to deliver on their ambition.

About the role

Our Senior Managers are responsible for the day-to-day delivery of our larger and more complex delivery projects, and use their expertise and EDGEWORK approach to make impactful changes that benefit our client’s needs. This role in particular will have a strong financial background in the public sector that enables them to support our teams and lead work that requires specialist financial skills.

This role will be part of the wider cohort of Senior Managers who are also responsible for drawing out insight from our projects to share across the business, and they generate ideas for how we can develop our offer and methods of change delivery. Our Senior Managers have some responsibility in supporting our senior team with relationship growth and account planning and sales.

Our Senior Managers are emotionally intelligent – and know how to develop and manage a team of exceptionally talented and high performing staff. They are responsible for the day to day and longer-term performance management of our project and internal teams, ensuring that our staff are trained, developed, retained, and well cared for.

About you

• Significant experience working in an engagement manager role within a Management Consultancy – with project delivery expertise focused on achieving enhanced outcomes, maximising financial value and organisational change.
• A qualified accountant or demonstrable depth of relevant experience and skills, with the ability to apply this knowledge at both a strategic and analytical level. CIPFA qualification is desirable
• Evidence of previous experience in the management and delivery of complex, long-term projects, within resource constrained environments to achieve demonstrable impact
• Experienced in managing senior client and account relationships, with the ability to manage resistance and challenge to build consensus.
• Experienced in supporting business development and account growth, with an understanding of the sales process and commercial considerations.
• Experience of public sector consulting, with a deep knowledge of local government, social care, health and / or housing
• Evidence of strong emotional intelligence, with a clear understanding of how to work in values-based organisations and environments.
• Ability to in develop and manage high performing teams, achieving effective results, applying the appropriate management style according to individual needs.
• Commercial mindset with a clear understanding of the commercial requirements of running a consulting business, their contributions in supporting these and in ensuring consulting staff are delivering against their commercial responsibilities
• Must be comfortable with nationwide travel and be prepared in some cases, to stay overnight local to client site.

About the responsibilities

Project delivery

• Responsible for managing larger, complex delivery projects across…