Estate Management Finance Manager

Overview

We’re looking for an Estate Management Finance Manager to provide specialist estate revenue, capital finance and financial performance management across the Council’s Estate Management service area. This is a pivotal role, ensuring monitoring and reporting across a large range of financial activity while driving strong continuous improvement.

About us

Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally. 

You’ll join our Communities Directorate within Corporate Property & Assets (Estate Management), supporting the effective management and compliance of a diverse and complex property portfolio. Our work enables vital public services to operate safely and efficiently, so what we do makes a real difference every day.

About the role

As Estate Management Finance Manager, you’ll support the Head of Estate Management to ensure the service area meets its responsibilities across its diverse building, engineering and health & safety compliance operation - supporting planned programmes, driving robust governance and ensuring strong service outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Closely monitor income and expenditure across all Estate Management budgets, reporting variances to the Head of Estate Management and undertaking associated budget management tasks as required, including oversight of the interface between the Council’s SAP ERP and K2 CAFM systems.
• Manage the process of closing Estate Management budgets at year‑end, including preparing debtor and creditor schedules, requesting budget virements and ensuring timely financial closure.
• Act, on behalf of the Head of Estate Management, as the primary financial liaison with BC Senior Managers and key stakeholders, including serving as the principal link between Estate Management and the Council’s Finance team.
• Provide financial support and expertise for construction and building maintenance projects, including assisting with programme planning, cost forecasting and budget control.
• Lead on the financial aspects of the Council’s Capital Building Maintenance Programme and revenue‑funded reactive maintenance contracts, ensuring effective financial controls, compliant ordering, invoicing and customer billing in line with Financial Regulations.
• Manage specialist systems and ensure all financial and performance procedures are completed accurately, to agreed timescales and required standards.
• Monitor service standards within the specialist area, providing accurate quality, performance and financial management information and taking corrective or escalatory action as required.
• Provide expert advice and professional support across a broad range of complex financial, technical and business issues, managing escalated matters through to resolution and embedding learning from issues or complaints.
• Identify and manage service delivery, financial or business risks, taking prompt action or escalating appropriately to protect the Council.
• Identify opportunities for service improvement, innovation and new ways of working, leading initiatives that deliver value for money, best practice and improved outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, financial regulations and contractual requirements, monitoring supplier performance and maximising value for money.

About you

Are you an experienced finance professional with experience of overseeing complex finances across a broad and varied large-scale estate management operation and looking for a new challenge, where your skills and expertise can flourish? If so, this could be the role for you.

We are seeking an Estate Management Finance Manager to provide effective oversight and continuous improvement for financial activity to support the Estate Management Service Area who manage the Council’s substantial and diverse range of property holdings, spanning across operational buildings, community assets and schools.

The role is challenging but professionally very rewarding. The Council is looking for applicants who possess all the attributes of an experienced finance professional and are also sufficiently experienced with the ability to problem solve for themselves whilst undertaking continuous improvement of processes and practices.

Other information

For further information on this role please see the attached job summary.

As an ‘any-desk’ worker, you’ll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office at least two days a week, depending on your role and team requirements.

Closing date: 20th May 2026

Interview date: 2nd and 3rd June 2026 - TBC

Interview-type: In person

If you would like to have an informal conversation with the recruiting manager, please contact: Stuart Bonney, Head of Estate Management – [email protected]

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro

We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day.

This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:

• collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• managing Country Parks
• leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
• Cemeteries and Crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment.

We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.

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