Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Abergele / Hybrid working

Salary: Up to £45,000K Plus Benefits

Hays are delighted to be partnering with Cartrefi Conwy to recruit a Finance Business Partner, working within their forward-looking finance team.

Your New Company

Cartrefi Conwy is a multi-award-winning Housing association with over 4000 homes throughout North Wales. They are one of the foremost providers of affordable, high quality homes in the region and 'creating communities to be proud of' is at the heart of everything they do.

They are a dynamic and multi-faceted organisation with opportunities to get exposure to many different business activities including sustainable development (construction and maintenance) and social enterprises.

This is a great time to join the finance team following the recent restructure. This Finance Business Partner role will involve implementing new systems, creating new opportunities for development and progression and introducing new practises - blending the existing with the new to create a seamless, modern and exciting Finance team to support Group Cartrefi Conwy.

Based out of offices in Abergele, they operate a hybrid model that supports working partly from the office and partly from home. The business values its staff and actively encourages all colleagues to learn, grow and nurture their skills.

Your New Role

The Finance Team enables positive change and shapes commercial thinking by providing data driven analytical insight.  This insight will facilitate decisions that allow us to maximise our social impact and improve the value provided for our tenants and service users.   The Finance Team also ensure ongoing financial sustainability of the group by leading the proactive management of the group's current and forecast financial position by ensuring we are compliant with all relevant legislations, financial rules and covenants.

As Finance Business Partner, you will build strong effective relationships throughout the business in order to provide insightful financial analysis of costs, support business cases and contribute to key decision making. 

Reporting to the Assistant Director - Finance, you will play a key role in providing advisory financial support to nominated functions within Cartrefi Conwy and ensuring that robust Financial management is in place. You will also assist in the preparation of annual budgets and associated monitoring, including any relevant forecasts. You'll support decision making through the preparation of business cases and work on ad-hoc projects. 

Using your leadership skills, you will supervise other finance team members and oversee their development.

This Finance Business Partner role offers a great mix of Finance Business Partnering, Financial Analysis, and management responsibilities. You'll get exposure to a variety of different business activities that will stretch and develop your skills.

What You'll need to Succeed

We are looking for a qualified accountant who has significant experience of management accounting and Finance Business Partnering.

You should have experience of communicating complex financial information to non-finance operational managers.

Ideally you will have experience of budget setting and variance analysis as well as forecasting future performance.

You will be a proactive and driven leader an excellent communicator and influencer with strong negotiation skills to work with colleagues of all levels, including senior management.

What you'll get in return

A competitive salary of up to £45000 is on offer as well as an excellent range of benefits including healthcare cash plan.  The organisation embraces lifestyle friendly policies to support their staff and will actively invest in your development to help you achieve the highest standards. This includes a hybrid working environment with a mix of office and home working available.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Mike McGibbon, our retained consultant to discuss this opportunity in more detail.

Applications close on 30^th January 2022 with Interviews being held 13^th and 14^th February.

We reserve the right to close the role to new applications ahead of this date if we receive sufficient response.  If you are considering applying but need additional support to complete your application please let us know asap.

All direct applications will be forwarded to Hays for consideration.