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Hello and welcome to South Yorkshire Police – thank you for your interest in joining us. If you’re already working in policing and looking for a change, or considering joining from another sector or industry, now is the perfect time to take the next step. This is an exciting time for us as I lead the next phase of our strategic plans, ensuring we deliver on our force priorities – preventing crime and disorder, responding to the needs of victims and communities, and focusing on those who cause the most harm. We are already a high performing force and have ambitions to drive future policing to a higher standard. To help us achieve this, I am looking for the very best leaders. As Chief Finance Officer, you will form part of our cohesive management team. This critical senior leadership role drives the financial strategy across SYP - leading, managing and developing the force’s finance function to ensure effective financial management. However, this role isn’t just about managing budgets - it’s about ensuring every pound is spent wisely to deliver policing that is effective, efficient and trusted. Our successful candidate will be a dynamic, energetic and inclusive leader who values people and their wellbeing. Being highly motivated with a proven ability to develop and lead high performing teams and operational delivery across disciplines is crucial. As you help to build on our success, we will invest in your continued personal and professional development, maximising your potential as a leader. I wish you luck in your application process and hope to see you join us at SYP soon.
Chief Constable Lauren PoultneySouth Yorkshire Police
Working for us doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets; our police staff work side by side with uniformed officers. A strong team of professional support staff work behind the scenes in many different areas of our organisation, including in finance. We need skilled people, like you, to join our police family to keep our South Yorkshire communities safe.
South Yorkshire covers an area of approximately 600 square miles and has a population of approximately 1.4 million. We have an annual budget in excess of £300 million and employ over 3,000 police officers and 2,200 support staff.
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Our Finance Department plays a vital role in supporting operational effectiveness through robust financial management and strategic insight. We are a dynamic team providing comprehensive financial services across the organisation and across the wider national Police Force footprint with our partners. Our core activities encompass:Management Accounting• Delivering accurate management reports, budgeting, and performance analysis to empower informed decision-making across business units.Strategic Finance Business Partnering • Offering strategic financial direction, assurance, and challenge to support long-term planning and decision-making.Financial Accounting • Ensuring the integrity of general and technical accounting functions, and delivering high-quality statutory and regulatory reporting.Payroll, Pensions & Systems • Managing the end-to-end processes for payroll and pensions, alongside maintaining and developing our core financial systems.Our team is integral to shaping the future of South Yorkshire Police, enabling efficient use of resources and supporting the delivery of outstanding public service
We are committed to attracting, selecting, hiring, retaining and developing a diverse and professional workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve, enabling us to meet and exceed our corporate finance goals and objectives. Our purpose is to attract people who can bring the right values, behaviours, and skills into corporate finance for today and for the future. We achieve this through wide-reaching engagement activities and positive action where we proactively seek to promote opportunities to members of the department.
For our existing people, it means we will listen to you to understand how we can support you to make the most of your skills and realise your potential. We are committed to the following priorities:
Team SYP is underpinned by core values of fairness, integrity and trust. We are fair in all our actions and activities, we behave and perform our roles with integrity, and we trust our colleagues and work hard to earn the trust of our communities.
Whether you are just starting out, or looking to retrain or change career, working within the South Yorkshire Police corporate finance department offers a varied and rewarding career in a fast-paced environment.
We are looking for creative and dynamic individuals from finance and clerical backgrounds to join us on a journey of organisational and personal development, finding new and innovative ways to support the force and the public of South Yorkshire.
Staff wellbeing is a priority for us, and as such we offer competitive salaries, generous annual leave allowances, access to various staff networks, an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible working, as well as great training and career development opportunities.
I joined South Yorkshire Police in October 2022 as the Deputy Chief Finance Officer with the responsibility to implement and embed change to enable the Finance function to become more efficient in the delivery of services across the Force and to the wider external partners.I am a Chartered Management Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in finance leadership, governance, risk management and leading large transformation programmes across both public and private sector. Finance services pro-actively manage the effective and efficient use of public funds to support the delivery of policing services that maintain public safety, build community trust and uphold the rule of the law. This includes providing advice and support to enable Commands and Business units to maximise value for the tax payer.Like most organisations, South Yorkshire Police is transforming the way we deliver our services and run the business to meet ever more demanding challenges. We have a Medium Term Resource Strategy underpinned by a draft recovery plan to help achieve our mission. The Finance department is very much at the centre of delivering this strategy working collaboratively with all senior leaders across the organisation and our external partners. Therefore, as part of this we are looking for talented individuals who are experienced finance professionals, resilient and driven to achieve change.I am grateful to you for considering becoming part of our Organisation. The Finance department is a fast paced and dynamic team, and you will benefit from working with thoughtful, innovative and great leaders within our organisation.
I started with South Yorkshire Police just over a year ago as a finance officer within the corporate finance team. In my short time here I have been exposed to a variety of areas within finance and each day has been different. I have significantly developed my knowledge which has assisted with working towards my ACCA qualification and subsequently resulted in being offered a new challenging role to cover a colleague on secondment. Since my first day I have felt supported and encouraged by my leaders to help develop my career.
I joined SYP’s Corporate Finance Department as an Assistant Financial Accountant, from a background of Private Practice & Pension Accounting, quite a change! That role required continuous CPD that was supported due to specific annual statutory changes. Fast forward over the last 20 years, I have had time as the Acting Financial Accountant, then took the leap over to the Operational Management Accounting function where I supported major changes to our HR Function. This was a catalyst along with the Finance Business Partner training & development, provided by SYP, that led to a promotion 6 years ago to become a Finance Business Partner. I personally enjoy working for SYP for a number of reasons, to name a few; there are many amazing colleagues across the Force, experts in their field, which helps in producing my financial input to tell the story which assists decision making; the varied work that comes my way due to working for a Police Force & the hybrid and flexible arrangements available. On top of those are the parts probably taken for granted! Such as parking available, modern office space, IT equipment to support delivery of my role & many employee benefits of working for SYP (pension, generous annual leave, blue light card membership, sports & social club, etc). I look forward to welcoming the new members of our team…
I have worked for South Yorkshire Police for 28 years. During this period I have embraced every opportunity and performed several different roles in Corporate Finance.The best things about working for SYP is the people, in particular “Team Finance”. The force provides a safe working environment for everyone.
I joined South Yorkshire Police back in 1997, working within the catering department. An opportunity became available to move roles and department, and I started a new challenge within finance. This gave me the chance for personal and professional development, starting as a finance clerk and progressing to the credit controller role. In 2000, a challenging secondment opportunity was offered to undertake the exchequer supervisor role. It has been a positive move forward in my career and has allowed me to develop further skills within an environment which is exciting, challenging and satisfying.
