Assistant Finance Business Partner – Service Charge

Hours of Work: 35 per week

Closing date: 30th January 2026

Interviews: Beginning of Feb 2026

At MSV Housing were committed to making sure our customers have good quality safe homes and our Assistant Finance Business Partner are key to making this happen.

We are looking to recruit an experienced enthusiastic individual to join our established team. Reporting to our Service Charge Accountant our Assistant Finance Business Partner will support effective financial management by delivering accurate budgets forecasts management accounts statutory accounts and maintaining financial systems and controls in line with legislation and internal policies. It also ensures service charges are compliant and accurate while working collaboratively with finance partners and budget holders to provide timely insights highlight risks and opportunities and drive value for money.

In addition we are looking for candidates that have a passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities.

What do our Assistant Finance Business Partners do;

• Support the annual budget process by maintaining high-quality financial information challenging budget holders and ensuring accurate submission and maintenance of budget data and templates.
• Deliver accurate and timely management accounts analysis and programme reporting clearly explaining variances risks and opportunities to aid informed decision-making.
• Produce monthly balance sheet reconciliations and support statutory accounts audit requirements and ongoing maintenance of financial systems including budgets and forecasts.
• Provide valueadding finance business partnering creating tailored reports offering insightful analysis and driving effective forecasting and strong risk management across the business.
• Ensure robust financial controls accurate transaction recording high data quality regulatory compliance and effective internal processes contributing to audits data returns and operational planning.

What we are looking for;

• Part-qualified Accountant or qualified AAT or equivalent through relevant training / experience
• Experience of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to analyse complex data to produce reports and deliver information to a range of audiences
• Experienceof providingappropriate financialinformation
• StrongIT skills including use of Excel knowledge and use of finance and housing management systems

We offer a range of great benefits including:

• Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided
• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and a holiday a buy scheme.
• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions
• Company funded access to a health cash plan where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical dental and much more.
• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay
• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme free counselling mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives
• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.
• 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 Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however we encourage candidates to submit an ammonised CV if they can do so.

MSV are also 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.

For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role.

If you wish to discuss the roles informally please contact Kevin Appleton Rent and Service Charge Manager on 0.

Interview dates are to be confirmed interviews will be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role closed if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore we strongly recommend candidates to apply early.

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

If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for.

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.