Head of Finance Business Partnering – Hybrid

Salary: £75,000 – 85,000

Client: Housing Association based in London

Reporting into the Assistant Director of Finance

Managing a Team of 3 Finance Business Partners.

The client is looking for a Qualified Accountant.

This role is responsible for management accounting, financial reporting, financial analysis, long term financial planning, and budgeting. A key deliverable for this role is to provide an effective and supportive interface between the wider finance team and the business – partnering each effectively to ensure that customer requirements are met and business decision making is informed and influenced by financial considerations. The Head of Financial Planning is supported by a Business Analyst and is responsible for their performance and development.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

* Prepare and report the Management Accounts and ensure they adequately reflect the performance of the business and focus on the salient issues and key variances for financial management; as a key financial control, ensure the Management Accounts are routinely produced on time, to required quality standards, and in accordance with control procedures.

* Co-ordinate the maintenance of the financial business plan, ensuring that it reflects the key strategic objectives, the prevailing operating environment, regulatory factors, and the effective management of risk; conduct stress testing and consider recovery plans, and engage the business in the key financial assumptions and the design of the target credit profile and associated enabling actions.

* Act as the lead financial advisor and business partner for new business activities and special projects including development, commercial activities and other new initiatives; instructing specific external advice as may be necessary, interpreting this advice, and ensuring that it influences decision-making and financial practice; ensure that the accounting, record-keeping, and reporting enables the performance of these activities to be effectively monitored.

Experience from the Housing Sector of Property sector will be hugely beneficial.

The client is reviewing CV's and interviewing on a rolling basis