Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Hemel Hempstead (Hybrid/Smart Working)

Salary £52,085 Per Annum Plus Benefits

Permanent, Full Time

37 hours per week (Monday - Friday, Flexibility Negotiable)

Thrive Homes is looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to actively promote, encourage and work in line with the principles and behaviours of Thrive Homes.

You will be responsible for producing detailed activity reports while working in partnership with budget holders. Proactive with your approach you will also provide advice on the financial implications and risks of proposed business initiatives and activities.

As part of the Finance Business Partnering Team, you’ll collaborate with others across the business to provide a commercially focused, efficient and professional Finance function to deliver against Thrive’s strategic and financial objectives, in line with the visions and values.

Thrive is proud to deliver flexibility for employees to work in a manner that suits their wants/needs best. Our SMART working policy allows individuals to take full control of their productivity by offering a choice between working in-house or away from the office. This means that successful candidates have the freedom to work as little or as often as they like from Thrive's state-of-the-art offices.

Other Responsibilities:

• Guide and enable managers in the preparation of budgets and forecasts ensuring these are completed on a timely basis and provide incisive commentary on the assumptions and implications of the figures presented.
• Completion of monthly allocated reconciliations.
• Provide cover and support to the Finance team for absence and workload peaks.
• Maintaining and updating procedure documentation.
• You will be required to undertake any other reasonable duties/projects as required by your line manager/senior manager.
• Regular monitoring of performance via a suite of KPIs

Requirements:

• A formal Qualified Accountant CCAB/ QBE qualification (or equivalent) is important or equivalent substantial experience.
• Proven experience of working on a full month end process, including (but not limited to) production of monthly management accounts, cash-flow and reconciliations.
• Experience of supporting the annual budget setting and quarterly forecast processes.
• Regular cash-flow reporting and analysis.
• Finance experience working in the Housing sector would be highly beneficial.
• Support on the delivery of the annual financial statements
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to demonstrate ability to work under pressure and to deadlines, managing a complex workload.
• Good analytical skills, able to identify trends and use information to present information for future decision making.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, demonstrating ability to present financial information to non Finance Managers.
• Ensure financial transactions and reporting are accurate and compliant with current legislation and accounting standards (including FRS and SORP)

Benefits:

Thrive’s Top 10!

• Annual Leave - 25 days per year increasing by length of service (up to 30 days)
• Buy or sell annual leave
• Generous family friendly provision
• Pension - Thrive Homes will pay double your contribution (up to 10%).
• Discretionary Bonus
• Life assurance - a payment of 3x your salary
• Health Cash Plan - facility to claim cashback for dental, optical and physiotherapy costs, alongside wellness services.
• Virtual GP Service (available 24/7)
• Wellbeing reward scheme (earn vouchers through a health app)
• A range of engagement activities aimed at building team morale, supporting both physical and mental health, and celebrating all things that make us different!

All roles at Thrive are subject to a basic DBS check.

Closing date: Monday 1st April 2024

Interviews to be confirmed

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.

About Thrive

Thrive Homes is an award-winning housing association with a strong track record and ambitious plans. Thrive exists to provide good quality affordable homes and services enabling the development of communities where people enjoy living. We manage over 5,000 properties and are continuing to build new homes each year.

Thrive’s Approach

Thrive is an exciting place to work. We challenge ourselves and others to deliver results and think differently. We share positive experiences and messages, with trust and respect at the core of every relationship. Our leaders adopt a coaching and mentoring approach - enabling and empowering others to deliver. We embrace change and encourage a strong focus on positive outcomes. We value agile working arrangements from our offices in Apsley, Hertfordshire and we pride ourselves on looking after our colleagues by offering progressive careers and a full range of modern benefits, as we continue to grow as an organisation and aim to attract the very best people.

Thrive homes are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This commitment is at the core of our understanding the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. We actively encourage all applicants that are suitable for the role, from diverse career paths and backgrounds and from all sections of the community.

As committed members of Inclusive Employers and a Disability Confident Committed employer, we remain steadfast to a fair recruitment process. If you have any accessibility needs and require reasonable adjustment, please contact us.