The Guinness Partnership Hiring for Head of Finance Job at Oldham, England Full Time

About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 135,000 customers nationwide. Of our 65,000 homes, more than 70% are let at a social or affordable rent, while around 10,000 are owned or part-owned by the people who live in them.

Guinness Property provide repairs and maintenance services to The Guinness Partnership. Operating nationally, our teams work hard to deliver rapid-response housing repairs, maintenance, and improvement services that ensure our customers’ homes are safe and maintained to high standard.

About the role
We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Head of Finance to join our Guinness Property Team in Oldham on a permanent basis.

Reporting into the Director of Financial Reporting & MI, you will be responsible for leading the Guinness Property Finance Team to deliver a strong financial management culture through the establishment, maintain effective financial controls and to provide insightful financial analysis and management reporting. You’ll also use your knowledge of finance, repairs and maintenance to support the Guinness Property Senior Leadership Team and their budget holders to deliver our repairs and maintenance services in the most financially effective way.

We are currently trialing a hybrid working style, working 2 days per week in the office and 3 from home. As such, it is a requirement for candidates to be able to work 2 days per week from our Oldham office (OL9 9XA).

About you
We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate experience of successfully leading a finance team across a dispersed geography to support a similar type of multi-functional, high volume service delivery business. You’ll be someone who can energise, motivate and develop a team, the way they operate and be experienced in leveraging functionality from systems to transform our financial reporting capabilities. You must also be a great communicator and able to confidently engage and influence people at all levels across the organisation. You will also be able to demonstrate:

• Good attention to detail with the ability to move between operational and strategic and to prioritise and manage a varied workload and projects to meet agreed deadlines.
• Experience of financial management within the construction sector with direct labour or an in house maintenance operation and understanding of key metrics and benchmarks for financial and operational performance.
• high professional standards and ability to support and motivate staff to deliver results.
• Proven track record of achievement in a senior finance role, reporting and contributing to a Senior Leadership Team and managing a team in a large and complex organisation.
• Proven experience of developing and delivering effective budgetary and financial management and control frameworks.
• Experience of organisation of month end management accounting processes with tight timescales.
• Experience of enacting business change through delivering a business partnering service.
• Knowledge and experience in driving improvements in data and information quality.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, highly proficient in excel and experience of using finance systems.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Leadership and Management Standard.
• CCAB or CIMA qualified and member

Advert Closing Date: Monday 29th November at midnight

If you’re interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships

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