Onward Homes
What You Can Expect From Us
- We offer a competitive salary of £80,900
- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme.
- Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
- A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
- Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
- Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
- Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
- Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications allowing you to develop your professional development to MRICS.
About The Role
Onward Homes is now looking to recruit a Head of Finance Projects and Business Partnering on a 12-month fixed term contract to drive cross functional support to business finance planning, business partnering, development finance and treasury and develop an integrated suite of reports to inform financial planning.
This is a home-based position but it is expected that the successful candidate will attend on site meeting and finance anchor days in our Liverpool and Manchester offices.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership
- Lead the teams responsible for financial insight and analysis across development finance and business partnering.
Finance Leadership
- Work with the Director of Finance and Heads of Department to drive department-wide initiatives, continuous improvement, and cross-functional projects. Work with the Senior Finance Manager of Business Partnering to shape and redefine the finance business partnering service.
Budget and Forecast
- Design quarterly forecast timeline and review processes, manage overall communication to the business. Identify areas of improvement within data capture, assumptions and onward reporting to executive team, treasury & finance committee, and Board. Work with the senior leadership team to scope business-led reporting of budget and forecast that helps drive performance within the organization.
Development and Treasury
- Design a suite of documents that facilitates ongoing review of the development programme, including key financial KPIs. Integrate treasury reporting and cash flow forecasts with the wider budget, forecast and financial planning programmes of the organization.
Financial Planning
- Work closely with operational and financial planning colleagues to ensure that good quality forecasts exist to inform the 30-year financial plan.
Capital and Investment Projects
- Support the organization-wide project groups leading portfolio management (capital asset disposal) and identification of new business streams. Design investment appraisal and return on investment reports which enable review and ranking of key capital projects by the executive management team.
What are we looking for?
Essential
- Experience of leading and managing a team of Finance professionals
- Experience operating at a senior management level within finance, in a role that provides insight to non-finance leadership.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, stakeholder management and the ability to motivate and drive performance.
- Track record within finance project management.
- Commercially minded and able to probe and challenge effectively.
- Experience designing analysis and reporting to support key business decisions.
- Experience of managing and reporting financial performance information.
Desirable
- In role experience of development finance and treasury management
- Experience of working with and influencing external partners.
- Experience of delivering innovative solutions, value for money.
Essential Qualifications
Qualified with a recognised accounting body (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or relevant professional experience.
About Onward
Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across in 52 neighbourhoods across the region.
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.
In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [email protected] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.
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To apply for this job please visit careers.onward.co.uk.