Finance Business Partner - Assets

Hours of Work: 35 per week

Closing date: 4 pm on 22nd August 2025

Interviews: To be confirmed

Do you have a customer-focussed approach with the ability to explain complex financial information to non-finance colleagues Do you want to work for a business that cares about more than the bottom line Then this is the opportunity youve been looking for! We are looking to recruit an experienced and qualified individual to support our Assets team.

What does the Finance Business Partner Assets do

• Manage the day-to-day financial performance management and reporting for the capital investment programme ensuring there is a robust monthly process in place to enable effective cash flow forecasting scheme performance and programme reporting is timely and well understood by senior management and able to be challenged effectively.

• Deliver excellent value-added finance business partnering services to internal customers ensuring tailored reports for each area of the business so that they have a good understanding of financial performance how to address underperformance and enabling good quality forecasting to be completed monthly.

• Oversee the management and maintenance of the Fixed Asset Register for the Group ensuring accurate and timely recording of transactions ensuring that capitalisation and depreciation are processed in a timely manner.

• Support the collation and reporting of the financial planning information for the capital investment spend for the Group beyond the Year 1 budget ensuring the business partners and budget holders are challenged effectively through the process ensuring the quality integrity and transparency of the financial information being included in the financial plan.

• Ensure data quality is a key focus across the team to ensure information being provided to finance and from finance is based on one source of the truth ensure robust validation of data is being carried out on information being used to perform key calculations being reported for assurance purposes.

• Provide effective leadership and to motivate team members to achieve high levels of performance and customer satisfaction.

With a proven track record of delivering effective financial business partnering and knowledge of housing association finance and regulations youll be a qualified accountant with excellent IT skills. Youll have the ability to lead motivate and inspire in line with MSVs values and culture and the ability to plan prioritise and organise effectively to meet changing needs. Youll use your financial management planning and budgetary control skills to provide high quality timely financial management information and ensure comprehensive financial controls are applied within Assets.

We offer a range of great benefits including:

• Hybrid working with time split between the office and home (Home working kit provided).

• 33 days holiday per year and bank holidays

• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions

• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay

• Employee assistance programme free counselling and wellbeing initiatives

• Life assurance

• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career

• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism LGBTQ disability and long-term health conditions carers and menopause.

• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career

• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism LGBTQ disability and long-term health conditions carers and menopause.

MSV are committed to supporting you to balance work and life including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

More information about the role can be found in the information pack attached to this advert.

If you wish to discuss the roles informally please contact Steve Aggett Exec Director Finance

We are passionate about inclusion and wed love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.

INDHIGH

We own and manage almost 9000 homes across Greater Manchester Lancashire and West Yorkshire and pride ourselves on being a housing association that retains our original values and missions and continues to deliver a range of housing solutions to the most vulnerable in MSV our main priority has and always will be to deliver and build on the services we provide as a social values embrace equality and inclusion and are genuinely focussed on people. We want better life chances for our people we work with customers to strengthen our business and we want to see fewer homeless people and people in poverty.