Located in Harlow, one of the UK's fastest growing areas in the heart of the UK Innovation Corridor and a successful Enterprise Zone with over £1.3bn of infrastructure and regeneration identified and being delivered through our transformative programme of change Building Harlow's Future.The Council is landlord to 9,000 properties through the HRA with a house building programme that will see an additional 23,000 properties coming into the portfolio over the next decade.It is a great place to live and work, being ideally located on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted/Cambridge rail line, and only four miles from the M25.Harlow is a confident and forward looking authority that will continue to play an anchor role in any future of the area.The Finance Service delivers financial management services to ensure that resources are managed effectively across the Council's services.The Service Business Partner – Housing will actively manage, inform and monitor key financial data and information to ensure that financial management is maintained to the highest standard across a range of services.You will provide high quality professional advisory, analytical and reporting services to the Council, service managers and customers focussed on the achievement of value for money whilst ensuring that financial management is maintained to the highest standard across Council services.Collaborative working with other members of the Finance Team and all other staff is essential to ensure that issues are identified and addressed, liaising with Finance Leaders as required, achieving service standards, goals and balance of risks.Key functions of this exciting role will involve managing team resources to meet service and customer requirements, ensuring coverage of services during peak and leave periods, ensuring effective separation of duties.The post holder will be responsible for providing comprehensive revenue and capital accounting support for allocated services, focused on budget preparation and monitoring, closure of accounts and provision of financial support to services areas.You will represent Finance and the s151 officer through attendance at meetings, providing support for projects, in the provision of advice, modelling and contribution to / creation of reports for Cabinet and Senior Management Board.Provision of training for service users will be made available and delivered as required.This will be an exciting and challenging role working in a dynamic and supportive team which will provide exceptional opportunities for the right candidate to apply their initiative, to design systems improvements and to be involved in a highly-regarded central function of the Council.We offer agile working styles to give ultimate flexibility and work-life balance.