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SalaryDirector of Operational Finance & Business Partnering (YMcS)
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly motivated individual to the role of Director of Operational Finance & Business Partnering for the Your McCarthy Stone Finance Team based in Bournemouth. (This role offers hybrid and flexible working opportunities as well.)
As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, McCarthy Stone have more than 40 years’ experience of providing high quality homes to exacting specifications. We’ve created over 58,000 age-exclusive retirement properties – apartments, bungalows, coach houses and cottages – in more than 1,300 developments across the UK.
At McCarthy Stone we believe that retirement living involves much more than simply deciding to move into a new home that’s better suited to our customers’ needs. It’s also an opportunity for them to embrace a new way of life, to have the freedom to live a lifestyle with more choices and more time to do the things they enjoy.
The new Director of Operational Finance & Business Partnering will manage and be responsible for the Development Accounts and Operational Finance teams for Your McCarthy Stone and deputise where necessary for the Your McCarthy Stone Finance Director. They will lead and work with the team to help them achieve their potential and ensure all the financial targets and deadlines are consistently met. The role requires the successful applicant to be the initial escalation point and to deal with any potential risks or threats that would prevent tasks being delivered and liaise with the Finance Director. They will regularly present updates to our Senior Leadership team and represent Development Accounts and Operational Finance at team functions and related meetings
Our ideal candidate for Director of Operational Finance & Business Partneringrole will:
- Be ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified
- Have previously been a Finance Consultant, or Finance Manager, or Finance Director and worked in a demanding finance role.
- Have produced multiple sets (circa 500) of year end accounts
- Have excellent working knowledge of Excel and finance systems
- Be able to rapidly develop good working relationships, and work across organisational boundaries.
- Have experience of managing and leading large teams and developing them to reach their full potential
- Operate with an approach of continuous improvement and confident to challenge current processes.
- Be goal focused with excellent planning / organisational and delegation skills
- Have strong communication skills, especially in presenting key financial trends and issues, to our senior leadership team and other stake holders
- Have a resilient nature that relishes a challenge and copes well under pressure
- Flexible approach to working as required by business demands.
- Exhibit strong emotional intelligence when working with the team and the stake holders.
- Previously worked in the property development industry, but we are also interested in hearing from candidates working in a retail or management service sector.
Benefits
McCarthy Stone are passionate about professional and personal development and support this for all our employees, across the company.
Financial:
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Professional Subscriptions paid for
Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing:
- 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Discounts on apartment purchases for employees and immediate family
- Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Cycle to work scheme
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies
- Excellent development opportunities
Ideal attributes
Our ideal Senior Management Accountant candidate will:
- Have a passion for Finance and financial processes
- Exhibit strategic thinking and strong analytical skills
- Shows professionalism and discretion in all areas of their work
- Have excellent time management skills
- Know how and what to delegate in a calm and professional manner
- Maintains a positive and ‘can do’ approach
- Brings energy and motivation to the team
If you’re a dynamic finance leader ready to make a difference, we invite you to join our team. Apply now!
More detailed information about this position is included within the job description.
At McCarthy Stone, we celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst our colleagues. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.
All applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received, and we hold the right to appoint before the closing date.
McCarthy and Stone do not offer sponsorship so can only consider candidates that already have the right to work in the UK.
As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.
We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.
We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list!
