Head of Financial Planning (Housing)

Head of Financial Planning (Housing)

Southend-On-Sea

Salary Up to £70,000 per annum depending on skills & experience + excellent benefits & essential car user allowance of up to £1,478 per annum

Permanent, Full Time 

Our client is seeking a passionate, experienced professional to lead, develop and manage the Treasury and Financial Planning team. In this vital role you will oversee the their debt portfolio and provide guidance to the wider Finance team who actively influence operational financial decisions, shaping strategy and the direction of the business.

You’ll need to feel comfortable being the Association’s expert in the following areas:-

• Overseeing the 30-year business plan taking into consideration any current and future corporate activities, and ensuring the plan is appropriately funded. 
• Supporting the Chief Financial Officer by ensuring decision making is well informed by appropriate analytics, identifying risks and mitigation options.
• Development of our Brixx model as an effective management tool.
• Develop, lead and manage Estuary’s treasury strategy, ensuring the business plan is adequately funded in accordance with Treasury Policy.

To be successful in this role you must:

• Be a qualified Accountant with significant post qualification experience.
• Have a sound understanding of the challenges facing the housing sector, and the regulatory and legal frameworks we operate within.
• Have experience of Financial Planning – ability to model and stress-test various scenarios using Brixx software.
• Have extensive business planning experience in the social housing sector.
• Possess Treasury experience and / or an appropriate Treasury qualification. 
• Be a natural coach, with the ability to lead and manage through others and develop the team and other colleagues to perform to their best. 

Values-based recruitment

Our client has a value-based recruitment policy which means their selection process is aligned with their core values of Excellence, Care and Innovation - this ensures that, when recruiting, they find the right person with the right values and expected behaviours for the job, who will strive to provide excellent services to the people they support. This supplements their requirements for essential and desirable skills, knowledge and abilities for each role.

Safeguarding & Recruitment

They are committed to safeguarding and practices safer recruitment standards and expects all staff to share the commitment to safeguarding children and people with care and support needs. The successful applicants will be required to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity & Inclusion

They are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion at the heart of their work and everything they do. They aim to be an inclusive organisation, where individual differences are respected, where staff, people who use services, as well as their families and carers, are treated with dignity and on the basis of their merits, abilities and needs, and where everyone has a fair opportunity to fulfil their potential without suffering discrimination or disadvantage.

They’re currently working remotely and expect to be returning to their offices in some capacity during summer 2021.  At that stage, we will also be starting a trial of hybrid/agile working across the business and they are happy to discuss flexible working options at the interview stage.

Closing date: 2nd August 2021 

Interview date: Week Commencing Monday 16th August, 2021