Finance Business Partner (Housing Services)

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We are recruiting a team of Finance Business Partners to support our service delivery managers, as part of our plans to transform the commercial skills in our organisation. These are new roles with a significant remit and a huge scope for changing the sustainability of our organisation. As part of this we are on a journey towards becoming a Registered Housing Provider, the post holder therefore will need expert knowledge in the setting and maintenance of rent and charges according to relevant regulations, and in planning Asset Management investment.

We’re looking for motivated and experienced finance professionals with a passion for delivering excellent service to the people we support and colleagues. To be successful in this role you’ll need an understanding of accounting processes and housing rent knowledge having worked in a Rents or Rents & Service Charge Team in a Housing Association. You will have great attention to detail and be able to help design the new software systems to deliver excellent service to all of the people we support and key stakeholders.

Our Finance department works collaboratively with its stakeholders, actively looking for opportunities to improve financial analysis, model new types of tenure e.g. shared ownership and provide insight in support of the organisation’s delivery of financial sustainability, performance targets and outstanding services.

We recognise the work we have to do, and the imperative to support the cultural change in the charity which has been empowering vulnerable adults for over 60 years. These roles are not business as usual and will be the most rewarding for those willing to engage in the challenge.

Salary: Up to £43,500 per annum

Hours: Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours

Location: Flexible working arrangement – including remote working/hybrid, with the ability to attend meetings at our Head Office Location in Emersons Green, Bristol

What we Offer

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft, and while we are looking for an experienced Rent Accountant we offer excellent personal and professional development support with on demand, structured and specialist training. This is a great opportunity to join us and take the next step in your career at a time when you can have a real and personal impact on the growth of our business into other forms of tenure including shared ownership.

With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed.

Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also, an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options. Flexible working arrangement – including remote working/hybrid arrangement. 25 days after a year of employment (pro rata for part time staff). Private Health Cover, A contributory pension scheme & life assurance.

We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group. In some types of service this vaccine is required by law, but we strongly encourage everyone to be vaccinated (across all our services) to ensure both the safety of the people we support and our colleagues.

Closing date: Monday 6th December 2021

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Finance Business Partner, Finance Manager, Financial Business Partner, Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Management, Head of Finance, Senior Accountant, Management Accountant, Corporate Accountant, Financial Controller, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, Not for Profit, NFP, Charity, Third Sector etc

Finance Business Partner

Reference Number - VAC2662

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home Worker (England, Wales and NI)
Salary: £32,622 - £35,624 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 30 November 2021
Interview Date: TBC

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.

About the role

This is a new and exciting opportunity to join the new Finance Business Partnering team at the Alzheimer’s Society as we advise, challenge and support the Society to deliver our vision of a world without dementia.

The Society has grown from strength to strength in recent years and we in the Finance Business Partnering team are here to enable the Society to continue this upward trend by doing everything we can to support our strategy’s ambitious goals of extending the scale and reach of our service to the Dementia community, creating societal change and awareness of dementia, and delivering breakthroughs in research.

The role will involve engaging stakeholders, delivering insight and making financial matters understandable, interesting and real to people. The role will be focused on supporting strong and sustainable growth, continuing to give donors confidence in how we spend their money and enabling maximising the financial benefit of decisions to deliver the greatest impact.

The post holder will represent finance on one of our directorate Leadership Teams, developing and using their expertise and skills to provide strategic, financial support. The post holder will be involved in providing timely and accurate financial reporting information to their stakeholders. They will be on hand to offer constructive challenge, provide financial analysis to support decision making, and will help prepare business cases and post-implementation reviews for some of our key investments.

About you

We are looking for ambitious, inquisitive individuals who want a chance to apply their financial skillset to tackling the challenges a successful and growing charity. We’re committed to ensuring that there is a value-for-money focus to everything the Society does – we want to continue to grow and to support people affected by dementia, and part of doing so is considering where the decisions of today will leave us tomorrow.

Successful applicants will have excellent communication skills and be able to understand and present issues and solutions succinctly and confidently. They will develop effective working relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, using these relationships to positively and assertively influence and support the delivery of our organisational goals.

The role will suit someone who can take ownership of a directorate’s financial performance and is comfortable working in an environment of change; someone able to remain motivated and manage their time effectively to plan, prioritise and deliver a varied workload with stakeholders operating across a multi-site environment.

We will offer you a flexible working environment and ensure a healthy focus on work life balance. We will continue to support your professional career development through ongoing training and support in completing your accountancy qualification. We will give you the opportunity to grow your skills through taking on a wide variety of responsibilities, and opportunities to partner with different parts of the organisation in the course of your career.

The successful candidate will be required to evidence their professional qualification and demonstrate a fit for the above through a combination of information provided from the application form and interview process.

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.

You may have experience of the following: Finance Business Partner, Finance Manager, Financial Business Partner, Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Management, Head of Finance, Senior Accountant, Management Accountant, Corporate Accountant, Financial Controller, CCAB, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, Not for Profit, NFP, Charity, Third Sector, etc.

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Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by improving transparency and accountability. We provide innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide. 

This role will be at the core of our strategy to influence and enable financial institutions to assess and mitigate their impacts on forests and forest peoples. It will play a key role in finance sector engagement on our two core projects in this space, Aligned Accountability and Trase Finance. 

Aligned Accountability will bring together existing data sets on deforestation, working closely with the finance sector and ESG service providers to improve deforestation metrics and related guidance. This can guide more sustainable investment, improve risk management, support due diligence, and enable green product innovation. It builds on our Forest 500 and Trase Finance initiatives, partnering with ZSL SPOTT, AFI and others, with support from the Norwegian Government.

Trase Finance: In partnership with Stockholm Environment Institute and London-based fintech leader Neural Alpha, Trase Finance brings unprecedented transparency to the hundreds of billions of dollars that directly and indirectly finance tropical deforestation each year. The tool enables financial institutions to systematically identify their direct and indirect exposure to deforestation risk, allowing them to improve the sustainability of their portfolios. 

Your role will be to coordinate engagement with the finance sector, across these two projects and partnerships.  This is a unique opportunity to make practical progress on integrating deforestation into ESG metrics and financial decision making, with the backing of major players in this space. Working across the Aligned Accountability and Trase initiatives you will be part of a leading, multinational, multidisciplinary, and multilingual team of experts. We value diversity, inclusivity and creativity at the core of what we do and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter the most:

• Successful track record of engaging with financial institutions or ESG service providers, or experience of working within the financial sector or financial services sector.

• Understanding of ESG metrics, and relevant data and disclosure initiatives.

• Communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to coordinate and influence a wide range of cross-sector partners to dedicate time and take action.

At Global Canopy, we value diversity and inclusion. You can read our diversity statement on our website. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to having a team with a diverse set of skills, experiences and abilities. We are committed to reducing systemic barriers in our recruitment processes. We strongly encourage those from diverse backgrounds to apply and not self-reject based on the listed criteria in the job pack.

Global Canopy works on issues of tropical deforestation. We are particularly interested in strengthening our team to include those with a background from forest regions such as Latin America and South East Asia. We would welcome applications from people from these regions and we will sponsor visas.

Global Canopy is an inclusive employer and accommodations will be made to allow anyone who requires additional support to apply for this role. Please get in touch with us if you require any additional support.

To find out more, download the recruitment pack or visit our website.