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Cabinet Member for Finance

Councillor Karen McCarthy

  • Contract Management:  Strategic approach to and compliance with contract management policy to ensure best value.
  • Commercialisation: To take the strategic lead in the consideration of all commercial opportunities available to the Council.
  • Finance: Overall financial direction within the Financial Strategy developed by the Leader, including Best Value and appropriate financial, accounting and audit controls and procedures.
  • Â鶹ÊÓƵ Business Charter for Social Responsibility: Application of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Business Charter for Social Responsibility that requires contractors to offer, inter alia, local employment and training opportunities, and to adopt Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Living Wage policy.
  • Rent Service: The Rent Service’s primary function is to maximise the collection of rent from Local Authority tenants and the recovery of current/former tenants and Housing Benefit Overpayments for Local Authority tenants.
  • Revenues and Benefits Service: To ensure effective management of the Revenues and Benefits service.
  • Procurement: Oversight of procurement management.
  • Internal Trading Operations: Effectiveness and holding to account the management of all internal trading operations.
  • Commissioning: Strategic approach to, and compliance with, the commissioning approach. Ensuring that council commissioning supports its wider social objectives such as employment provision, training, encouraging social enterprise and delivering social cohesion, internally and externally in line with the Council’s objectives.
  • Oversight of consultants: (and interims) Oversight of the use of consultants and interims with particular focus on their duration, renewal and cost.

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