Assistant Finance Business Partner

Churchill Living Ltd; Ringwood; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Birthday off

Buy and sell holidays

Health screening

Life assurance

Referral schemes

Charity fund matching

Job summary

Churchill Living Ltd is seeking an Assistant Finance Business Partner to join the Ringwood-based Finance team. The role involves supporting monthly reporting, budgeting, forecasting and audit activity, working closely with Finance Business Partners and divisional teams to provide timely and accurate financial information.

You will help ensure financial discipline, produce reliable management information and contribute to decision-making across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience with management accounts and financial reporting processes.
• Ability to analyse costs, variances, and financial data with accuracy.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
• Comfortable communicating with colleagues at different levels across teams.

Responsibilities

• Assist with monthly management accounts, including P&L, schedules, and variance analysis.
• Support financial appraisals using historical data and divisional forecasts.
• Investigate costs, VAT treatment and movements, raise queries as needed.
• Contribute to monthly management packs, divisional reports and sales reporting.
• Assist with annual budget process and COINS uploads.
• Support audit activities by preparing files and responding to auditor requests.
• Provide ad hoc finance support and liaise with internal and external stakeholders.

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Finance Business Partner

Location: Office based in Ringwood, Hampshire

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

About the role

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Churchill Living Finance team in a varied support role, working closely with Finance Business Partners, divisional teams and colleagues across the wider finance function. You will help ensure accurate, timely and relevant financial information is available to support decision-making, maintain financial discipline and contribute to the smooth delivery of monthly reporting, budgeting, forecasting and audit activity.

Key responsibilities

• Assist with the timely and accurate production of monthly management accounts, including supporting schedules, P&L reporting and variance analysis.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of financial appraisals, using historical information, divisional forecasts and updated cost and income data.
• Investigate costs, coding, VAT treatment and movements in financial information, raising queries and challenging where appropriate.
• Contribute to monthly management reporting packs, divisional board reports, activity reporting and sales reporting.
• Assist with the annual budget process, including divisional budgets, model site cost research and budget uploads into COINS.
• Support the annual audit process by helping to prepare audit files and respond to auditor queries or information requests.
• Provide ad hoc finance support to the Finance team and divisional teams, including transaction processing, financial reporting and liaison with internal and external stakeholders.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be:

• Organised, accurate and comfortable working with financial information, reports and deadlines.
• Have strong attention to detail and take pride in producing reliable, well-presented information.
• Confident communicating with colleagues at different levels and able to build effective working relationships across finance and divisional teams.
• Proactive and curious, with the confidence to ask questions, investigate discrepancies and challenge information appropriately.
• Able to manage a varied workload, respond flexibly to ad hoc requests and work collaboratively as part of a busy finance team.
• Someone with experience supporting management accounts, budgets, financial reporting, audit activity or transaction processing.
• Someone with knowledge of COINS or similar finance system, although a willingness to learn is equally important.

How you'll be rewarded

• Annual holiday entitlement - 24 days + Bank Holidays
• Day off on your birthday
• Buy and Sell holiday scheme
• Health Screening
• Life Assurance
• Colleague, Client and Land referral and reward schemes
• Charity fund matching, charity days and themed events through the Churchill Foundation

About us

We are Churchill Living, the leading provider of housing that offers freedom, independence, and unrivalled living value for the over 60s, and we’re looking for people like you!

As a family-run, privately-owned business we have a strong culture built on trust and integrity. We’re proud of what we do, and the people we work with, and we believe in giving something back to the communities where we operate. Our success is built on our fantastic team of more than 700 Colleagues across the country, which is growing all the time.

We pride ourselves on building beautiful, quality apartments in desirable locations across the country for those looking for greater freedom and independence. Our developments are designed to provide safety, support and a sense of community for our Customers to enjoy, ensuring peace of mind for them and their families.

We are proud to have been voted a Sunday Times Top 10 'Best Places to Work' based on our Colleague feedback. Not only that, but we’ve won a host of industry awards including the prestigious Housebuilder of the Year at the WhatHouse? Awards