Finances

The council's finance service provides a wide range of financial services across the council.

The service supports the council by providing financial advice, guidance and assistance through accountancy, procurement and audit and risk management units to ensure the council makes the best use of its finances. The service also provides a key public interface through the local taxation and benefits service and key financial processing services such as payroll, invoice payments, billing, debt recovery and e-trading.

The service is responsible for the overall management of the council's net revenue budget of £278m and is broken down into four divisions -

Audit and risk management

• Internal audit
• Insurance
• Risk management

Corporate finance and financial services

• Statement of accounts
• Cashiers service
• Payroll
• Payments
• Sundry debtors

Local taxation and benefits

• Benefits
• Council tax
• Business rates (NNDR)

Procurement and value for money

Other information

• Local Code of Corporate Governance
• National Fraud Initiative - data matching
• Finance Service Plan
• Credit union
• Corporate charging framework
• Feedback on the finance service using our online feedback form
• Anti-fraud, theft and corruption strategy.