Head of Finance Business Partnering

We are Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.

How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with ambitious people, supportive people and commercial people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.

More about your role

As part of the People First approach and re-organisation of our Affordable Housing businesses we are looking to recruit a new role as Head of Finance Business Partnering. You will be responsible for supporting and managing a professional and customer focused team of Finance Business Partners (FBPs) for the regulated housing providers within the Affordable Housing team of the wider Places for People Group. As an effective member of the Affordable Housing Finance Leadership Team you will build relationships, and work collaboratively, with the Directors, Board members, Group Colleagues on all matters of financial strategy to ensure a growing and sustainable organisation.

As number two to the FD of Affordable Housing, you will operate at a strategic level to advise on all aspects of financial policy, practice and management to ensure the organisation remains financially strong.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More about you

You will be a fully qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or similar) with extensive post qualification experience of financial management and reporting to Boards, Senior Management and external stakeholders. You will also possess a commercial mindset and be able to review financial performance of differing businesses and work with Senior Leaders to achieve both financial and business goals.

We are looking for someone who always looks for improvement. This could be through mentoring your Business Partners to improve their technical ability or interpersonal skills when presenting information. In addition you will also strive for continuous improvement in systems and processes to deliver richer information and improve compliance within frameworks.

You will also possess the confidence and gravitas required to deputise for the FD in meetings, and have a natural ability to translate complex financial information into broad themes for non-financial leaders.

This is a national role and you will be home based, however you will need to be able to travel across the UK to work with Senior Leaders and to Preston where our Financial Shared Service Centre is based.

The benefits

Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that’s why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.

Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership – to a wealth of extra perks including discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.