Paradigm Housing Group
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Location: High Wycombe / Remote hybrid working
Salary package: circa £75k package + 30 days hol and Excellent Benefits
Permanent, 37 hrs p/w Mon-Fri
A career enhancing opportunity has arisen in a new role as Head of our Finance Business Partnering function. Reporting to the Assistant Finance Director of Financial Services this high-profile post will work with our Executive Management Team on business planning, budgeting and forecasting. Challenging cost and performance drivers as necessary, you will advise on and deliver robust and accurate management accounting. Proactive and commercial in approach, you will focus on change and transformation as well as leading the Business Partnering Team (three Finance BP’s and 1 Management Accountant) and be responsible for producing the financial information that will enable effective decision making, ensuring VfM and financial regulatory compliance. Identifying and promoting untapped talent in the team, encouraging and supporting career development by enabling individuals to develop their careers and bring skills to other areas of the business and perform at their best.
You will take the lead in building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all budget holders and their teams. Providing strategic and operational leadership to ensure the delivery of a reliable, consistent, and accurate partner-focused management information service. You will be responsible for identifying key risks to the achievement of the annual budget and making sure that appropriate measures are put in place to manage these risks
Ensuring the timely and accurate production of management accounts for the entire Group for distribution to the Executive and Group Boards and prepare timely, relevant and accurate financial information for staff who need it.
As the wider Paradigm Group goes through a period of transformation and change to achieve its new Target Operating Model this role will be central to the provision of relevant, up to date financial information while reporting against key central projects and initiatives.
You may be a Senior Finance Business Partner looking to step into a more influential management role or perhaps you are a already operating at this level or above and relish the challenge of the role?
This is a great opportunity to join us at a time when you can have a real and personal impact on the future success of our business.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Be/have
Full accountancy qualification (ACA, CA, ACCA. IPFA, CIMA) with significant post qualification experience, ideally with some in Business Partnering
Professional competence and success in complex, changing environment
Clear understanding of the regulatory framework of accounting.
Experience of implementing improvements in systems, including working with other departments and organisations to reach solutions that are effective and efficient.
Excellent PC skills including strong Microsoft Word, Power Point and advanced Excel.
Strong people management skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a small team to achieve organisation and personal goals
Excellent written and presentational skills
About Us
We are a values’ driven, ambitious organisation, offering a welcoming and friendly environment. We are very proud to be awarded a 1 STAR a accreditation by ‘Best Companies’ due to our high employee engagement. We clearly focussed on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.
We offer a very generous package including the following for this role:
Holidays – 30 days to start plus 3 paid days between Christmas and New Year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to conditions
Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
Annual Bonus potential
Professional Sponsorship Scheme (subject to conditions) and professional subscriptions paid
Family Friendly policies incl. generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category!
Remote / hybrid working
Up to 3 paid Volunteer days a year
Newly created modern offices collaborative offices, with free parking and charging points for electric vehicles
Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions)
Rewards platform
Opportunities for career advancement –
Social events, such as Quiz nights, Christmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)
We support flexible ways of working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in.
Further information
For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email and we will respond as soon as possible.
As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.
Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.
Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification.
We will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time, we therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.
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