Address
Form of work
SalaryReporting to
Finance Director
Department
Grosvenor Hart Homes
Management responsibility
No direct reports - services provided by wider Grosvenor organisation
Primary location
St John's Court, Chester
Other locations
Eaton Estate Office
Grosvenor St, London
Overview
Grosvenor Hart Homes is a new social enterprise on a mission to improve the life chances of vulnerable children, young people, and their families. Addressing three critical foundations, we provide high-quality affordable homes simultaneously paired with employment and wellbeing support programmes, tailored around the needs of individuals, and designed to empower them to overcome disadvantage and achieve better outcomes in life.
An opportunity has arisen for a talented and experienced Senior Finance Manager to join the team at this exciting stage in its development.
The role is 12-month fixed term, and part time (3 days per week, hybrid, flexible hours).
This role is hands on (with service support from the wider Grosvenor finance, purchase ledger, treasury and tax teams) and broad in scope, with significant opportunity to lead and help to shape the future requirements of the Grosvenor Hart Homes finance function.
Main purpose of role
To introduce strong financial control and reporting foundations, whilst preserving flexibility as the business is evolving. Responsible for the preparation of operational and financial reporting for the Grosvenor Hart Homes business, including the management of cash, controls, and associated risks. The aim is to operate as an effective business partner to budget holders, internal/external advisers, the Family Office finance team and to produce insightful, high quality, timely financial reports, and information in a professional and confidential manner.
Responsibilities
Primary entities
- The following individuals / entities supported by the role are the Board and operational teams of Grosvenor Hart Homes Ltd, GHH (POC) Ltd, Grosvenor Hart Holdings Ltd.
- Responsible for production of monthly and quarterly financial KPI information and management accounts (including variance analysis), cashflow reporting and forecasting (including stressed cashflow), year-end statutory accounts, quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and short / long term financial plans, ensuring a thorough review process is undertaken and reporting deadlines are met at all times.
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of GHH, whilst ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and technical accounting standards.
- Manage and contribute to the timely preparation and input of data into accounting systems ensuring correct authorisations are adhered to.
- Work closely with department heads to continually improve the management reporting so that it continues to be insightful, adds value and is aligned to business activity and strategy
- Critically review performance of budget holders against budget and forecast
- Maximise the use of systems and regularly challenge existing processes to continually improve the efficiency with which management reports are produced
- Ensure that assumptions underpinning budgets and forecasts are appropriately challenged
- Review and assist in production of information supporting completion of VAT, CIS and annual tax returns.
- Assisting in ad hoc projects as required.
- Provide finance leadership to ensure the operational team is delivering to a high standard in all areas:
- Ensure roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and are being carried out by the right people with the appropriate skill sets
- Provide day to day hands on support to team members
- Encourage collaborative working, sharing of ideas/best working practises and open communication
- Ensure the finance skills within the operational team are continually being developed (technical accountancy skills, commercial knowledge, systems capabilities etc.) appropriate to role so that team members are working to their full potential
- Build effective business partnering relationships with operational teams, ensuring that regular communication is maintained, providing them with correct level of guidance through timely and accurate reporting.
- To maintain excellent relationships with internal and external advisors and with relevant regulatory bodies, taking day to day responsibility for the external audit relationship and process.
- Ensure that internal processes and controls are operating efficiently and effectively, are fully documented and are regularly reviewed.
- Assist the Finance Director in ensuring that the financial and business IT systems are capable of supporting operational business activity and delivery of strategic plans
- Actively participate in business wide systems projects where input from a finance perspective is required.
- Participate in testing general system upgrades and bespoke system configuration changes
- Oversee the accurate production and input into statutory returns, including VAT/CIT/CIS returns etc
- Carry out necessary due diligence work on new suppliers, contractors etc, as appropriate
- Maintain rigorous control over cash-flow, making effective use of the services provided by the Grosvenor treasury team
- Preparation/review of short- and medium-term cash flow forecasting to assist in management of funding with particular focus on equity and debt requirements
- Support the FD in ensuring appropriate funding is in place and that appropriate financing structures and instruments are introduced to support medium and long term plans
- Undertake ad-hoc projects and assignments as required
- Provide information on funding requirements (including changing assumptions and scenarios) to the Family Office Finance Team to enable long range modelling forecasts to be updated.
- To continuously develop and improve
- To comply with company policy and best practise in security, legal and regulatory compliance
- To carry out duties, within the relevant legislation at all times and be familiar with the terms of all current legislation relevant to the role
- To ensure Health and Safety responsibilities are fulfilled, including:
- Responsibility for personal safety and accountability for all staff reporting to this position, including others who may be affected by the organisation's activities
- To assume delegated authority to take aversive/proactive action where appropriate to prevent a potential situation escalating to an accident or health and safety failure
- Ensure all employees and sub-contractors are suitably trained/competent to carry out the prescribed tasks and that the necessary licenses/certificates of competence are in force and appropriate. Ensuring that significant risks and relevant Grosvenor procedures are communicated
- Plan enough time for work to be done in a healthy and safe way
- Liaise with Health and Safety representatives for accident/ill-health investigations, carry out training needs analysis and arranging training, plan for and provide suitable and sufficient resources to meet policy requirements
- Co-operate with Health and Safety Representatives regarding reviewing and providing feedback on health & safety performance both positive and negative, implementing where required disciplinary procedures, carry out and implement risk assessments and controls
- To complete any other duties as required from time to time
Qualifications
- A qualified accountant with 5 year + post qualification experience and an excellent academic record
- Highly numerate and logical
- Technically up to date with desire to maintain and share this knowledge
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
- Highly proficient with Microsoft applications in particular advanced Excel skills
- Strong leader (self and people) with experience of effectively managing teams and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement
- Must be flexible; able to prioritise; excellent people/communications/presentation skills
- Customer focused with experience of building effective internal and external relationships
- Pragmatic, analytical, persuasive and engaging character, who enjoys taking ownership and who gets things done
- Attention to detail and dedication to providing quality, error free work to tight deadlines
- A desire and ability to learn is essential
- Experience of systems design and implementation is desirable
- Experience of social and/or affordable housing is an advantage
- Reliable with strong work ethics
- Professionalism, discretion and confidential at all times
- Leads themselves by taking responsibility, being positive and tackling challenges
with enthusiasm - Works well with others by building positive relationships, working with integrity, being direct and straightforward whilst respecting and considering others
- Works well in teams by building team spirit, delivering team goals and being flexible
- Manages knowledge by researching new ideas and capturing new learning
- Shares knowledge . click apply for full job details
