Financial Analyst
£52,000-£55,000 dependent on experience
Milton Keynes
Fixed Term Contract - 12-month Fixed Term Contract
Full Time
Join us as a Financial Analyst! In this role, you'll take the lead in developing our comprehensive 30-year business plan and play a key role in overseeing capital funding for our development program. We're looking for someone with strong experience in business planning and financial analysis, who is proactive, detail-oriented, and eager to make a significant impact.
This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract position.
What you'll be doing
- Prepare the 30-year business plan and update the plan quarterly, using Sequel and Brixx software to align performance with projections.
- Conduct annual and ad-hoc stress tests to assess risks and develop recovery plans.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports, ensuring alignment with covenants and forecasts.
- Provide financial analysis and insights for new development schemes, corporate projects and strategy.
- Support project managers with cash flow forecasting and variance monitoring.
- Prepare regulatory returns and assist with appraisals and contractor analysis.
- Enhance financial accuracy and processes.
- Ensure high-quality data input for business planning.
- Partner with departments for financial planning and decision-making.
- Assist in preparing board presentations and cover for finance colleagues.
- Compile information and analysis for credit rating agencies.
- Commit to excellent customer service, meeting corporate strategies and values.
Essential skills and experience
- Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- Experience with MRI Housing Brixx
- Experience with SDS Sequel and ProVal (desirable)
- Data manipulation from various sources
- Performance monitoring, development, and reporting
- Develop/maintain monitoring systems
- Ensure timely info from staff
- Excellent IT skills
- Meet deadlines, organise/prioritise effectively
- Analytical, logical, meticulous
- Innovative, commercially astute, problem identifier
- Understand equality/diversity principles
- Explain financial info to non-financial professionals
Please read the full job description and person specification before applying.
Perks of working at Grand Union
- Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
- Generous pension scheme - employer contribution up to 10%.
- Extra day's leave for no sickness absence in the financial year.
- Christmas week off (no need to use your annual leave allowance!)
- Opportunity to buy/sell annual leave.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Paid emergency and compassionate leave.
- Life assurance (2x salary).
- Generous sick pay.
- Free annual flu jabs.
- Paid qualification.
- Plus more
Important information
We do not provide visa sponsorship; you must be eligible to work in the UK. You must reside in the UK for the duration of your employment and provide Right to Work evidence.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early in response to an overwhelming number of applications or a change in business priorities.
Closing: 12 September
Our company
At Grand Union, we know that what we do matters. We build more homes, stronger communities and better lives.
We've been in business for over 25 years and provide 12,500 homes for more than 27,000 people across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire. We're an £86 million turnover social business with 400 staff.
Our mission is more homes, stronger communities, better lives. We build affordable homes, provide personal support, and help people to learn, work and be healthy.
We're a financially stable and innovative not-for-profit organisation that believes in partnership and collaboration. We plan to build 1,959 more new homes in the coming years to play our part in ending the housing crisis.