1337 Lead Finance Business Partner - YHN

Lead Finance Business Partner

Your Home Newcastle

YHN are excited to be recruiting a Lead Finance Business Partner to work within our busy Business Partnerships Team, supporting key frontline services to customers across the city. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual who has experience of working in a busy finance department and who will embrace our values, bring energy to the team and enhance our business partnering services.

Fixed term position for 2 years YHN are excited to be recruiting a Lead Finance Business Partner to work within our busy Business Partnerships Team, supporting key frontline services to customers across the city.

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual who has experience of working in a busy finance department and who will embrace our values, bring energy to the team and enhance our business partnering services. At YHN our vision is to be ‘First for Housing’. We have bold plans for the future and our people are key to us achieving our goals, so we want to attract the very best.

What you’ll love about this job:

As Lead Finance Business Partner, you will have a key role in managing our organisations performance and ensuring the services we supply provide value for money. Our diverse and energetic team lives and breathes our RARE values, Ready, Amazing, Revolutionary and Energetic.

We are looking for someone who will embrace our values and team ethos to join us on our business partnering journey. As Lead Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in a wider range of activities that support our groups strategic objectives. Following Leazes Homes recently joining our group there is an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in supporting the business in delivering its challenging and ambitions plans.

This will be through providing strategic financial advice across a range of services by:

• Preparing financial appraisals on investment proposals, ensuring future investment plans are sustainable

• Calculate, review, and propose rent and services charges for new and existing properties

• Develop 30-year financial models, incorporating stress testing and cash flow planning (Brixx models)

• Carrying out VFM and NPV modelling that will inform investment planning

• Providing monthly management accounts and supporting performance data to enable essential insight into service delivery

• Take a lead role preparing and submitting statutory returns and management accounts for a group of companies

• Review, design and implement new business insight in the form of performance data or financial controls and models

• Analyse and advise on corrective action required to address poor financial and non-financial performance

• Be a trusted advisor to the services you support, playing a pivotal role in decision making

• Understanding key business drivers of the services we support.

We offer a forward thinking and open environment where our people are empowered to make a difference. You’ll work alongside our Senior Finance Managers, Corporate Management Team, Board, staff, partners, and customers to manage and improve the organisation’s performance

What you need to do the job?

• Be passionate and enthusiastic about business partnering

• Have the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders’ decision making

• Highly developed leadership skills in the Business Partnering environment

• Have strong analytical, ICT and business acumen skills

• Work collaboratively and build strategic relationships with senior managers and external partners to achieve best outcomes for the business

• Committed to ongoing development

• Experience of supporting registered charities and housing provider

• Be a fully qualified accountant

Why work for us:

Your Homes Newcastle (YHN) is an arms’ length management organisation (ALMO) responsible for the management of over 26,500 Newcastle homes owned by Newcastle City Council and an additional 700 homes owned by Leazes Homes. We are one of the largest property management organisations in the region and we provide high quality homes together with person-centred support. Our passion is creating great places where people can be proud to live, and our ambition is to be ‘first for housing’.

We offer:

• a competitive salary with access to a Local Government Pension,
• 24 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after five years plus bank holidays,
• agile working, flexi-time,
• staff network groups and Occupational Health service with free counselling services.
• We also have many salary sacrifice schemes and you can also benefit from discounted annual travel passes,
• MOTs and gas servicing.
• We promote staff health and wellbeing and are committed to making YHN an amazing workplace where people feel valued and supported.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds If this sounds like you and you’d like to have a chat about the post, please contact Christian Marklew at [email protected]

PLEASE NOTE: We do not accept CV’s, only online applications. 

Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your North East Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox.

YHN is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all groups regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability, age, race, maternity and pregnancy, marriage and civil partnership and gender reassignment.

To apply, visit https://www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Lead_Finance_Business_Partner/228205