3350 Finance Business Partner (Development & Regen) - A2Dominion

Finance Business Partner (Development & Regen)

A2Dominion

 

• Location: Ealing - Hybrid working
• Salary: £79,503 - £83,688
• Contract: 12-month secondment, Full time, 35 hours per week

About us:

We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.



Role Overview:

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our fantastic Finance division. This is a new role within A2Dominion and will be working alongside the wider financial reporting team and Property leadership team to review and challenge financial and performance information within the Property business area. The successful candidate will also Influence operational and strategic decision making and provide analysis of financial and non-financial data to provide greater insight on value for money and efficiencies, as well as enhancing commercial awareness and performance.



More about the role:

Responsibilities will also include:
 

• Partner with the Property leadership, including senior managers, to ensure the financial information provided is relevant and enables the business to make informed strategic decisions and to deliver the performance targets across the multiple business areas within the Property Development, Regeneration and Disposals areas, including the development joint venture operations
• Use financial information to inform business decisions and financial analysis of development, regeneration schemes and asset disposal seeking EMT / Board approval, including robust analysis of proposed scheme appraisals prepared by the Property team, reviewing options appraisals, and providing appropriate narrative to be included in EMT / Board reports and outturn reviews
• Financial review of Joint Venture partnerships including financial evaluation of proposed business plans when considering such investments, and ongoing understanding of financial impact of forecast outturn vs. approved business plan. Preparing reports to EMT / Committee / Board explaining financial implications of JV performance, and when required, seeking approval for officers to execute ad hoc finance related actions within jointly controlled investments
• Evaluate financial models supporting Board decisions, and recommend improvements
• Promote and embed a value for money culture across the business by systematically benchmarking across the best in class within and outside sector
• Play the role of independent, critical friend to ensure accurate budgeting and forecasting of performance, ensuring consistent and justifiable assumptions as a result of strong business partnering relationships and supportive challenge
• Ensure risks and opportunities to performance and budget/latest forecast are well understood and raised in a timely manner with identification of interventions and risks are accompanied by robust recommendations to get back to target
• Working with the business to maintain active involvement in the financial and operational performance to draw out insights and intelligence to inform strategic decisions relating to value for money
• Support the longer term financial planning processes to ensure robust assumptions and data are factored into the business planning processes and the development of the strategy for Property Development, Regeneration and Disposals areas

More about you:

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)
• Fully qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or educated to degree level
• Previous significant experience in a senior role for a housing association, property management or real estate related company
• Demonstrable finance experience within a multi-company environment carrying out extensive business partnering with senior management
• Comfortable analysing and assessing data to draw insights, assess performance and identity required interventions
• Understands how Finance strategies and interventions support overall Business Strategies and Goals and able to drive effective financial performance through brokering the services of the wider Finance team where necessary
• Significant experience of service delivery to non-finance personnel at a senior level

Choosing us is easy:

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 30 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• Investment in your learning and development.
• We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: [email protected]
 

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.



Meeting the role requirements:

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at [email protected]


A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.

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