Finance Business Partner (Property)
Location: Ealing – Hybrid working – 1-2 days in the Ealing office each week
Salary: Circa £63,000
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:
- Liaise regularly with the Property leadership, including senior managers, to ensure the financial information provided is relevant and enables the business to make informed strategic decisions
- Use financial information to review business decisions and challenge managers at all levels on costs including overheads, assumptions, and process to ensure the business is operating in a professional and commercial manner
- Regularly attend and contribute to senior management meetings, including the Pyramid joint venture meetings, on the presentation and review of financial and business performance
- Promote and embed a value for money culture across the business by systematically benchmarking across the best in class within and outside sector
- Work with the Financial Planning & analysis team to understand the relationship between the longer-term plan for property investment vs the cost of responsive repairs in the short term
- 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 recommendations
- Carry out analytical reviews of the budget and forecast of specific business areas and identify and mitigate risks to the budget and forecast
- 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 and the aspiration to improve the customer experience
More about you
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)
- Fully qualified Accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA and educated to degree level
- Significant and demonstrable finance experience within a multi-company environment carrying out an extensive business partnering role
- Comfortable analysing and assessing data to draw insights, assess performance and identity required interventions
- Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels within a business
- Significant experience of service delivery to non-finance personnel at a senior level
- Demonstrate a confident, solution orientated approach with an ability to challenge assumptions and maintain objectivity
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:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development.
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
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: recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk
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 recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk.
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.
