Director of Finance

MSV Housing Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 1,000,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent housing association in the UK is seeking a Director of Finance to lead financial strategy and operations. The role involves managing a high-performing finance team, driving regulatory compliance, and ensuring financial sustainability. Ideal candidates will be qualified accountants with strong leadership skills and a commitment to service excellence. Benefits include flexible working, a competitive salary, and extensive professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

33 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Company funded health cash plan

Enhanced sick pay

Health and Wellbeing Support

Learning and development opportunities

Commitment to Equality and Inclusion

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in managing complex finance functions.
• Ability to engage stakeholders effectively.
• Commitment to fostering a customer-centric culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance team to deliver financial management aligned with strategy.
• Develop financial control framework ensuring compliance.
• Oversee treasury management and funding arrangements.

Skills

Influential communication

Team motivation

Budget setting

Data analytics

Analytical skills

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CIPFA)

Tools

Advanced IT skills

Excel

Integrated finance systems

Job description

Hours of Work : 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Closing date : 27th October 2025

First Stage Interviews : 14th November 2025

We are seeking an experienced Director of Finance to lead the Groups financial strategy operations and governance. This pivotal role will ensure financial sustainability regulatory compliance and the delivery of high-quality financial services aligned with our strategic objectives.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Finance and Business Excellence you will lead a high-performing finance team embed best practices and drive continuous improvement across financial management planning reporting and control.

You will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth and efficient execution of our business plan adhering to financial regulations and value-for-money principles. Your leadership will guarantee that we meet all regulatory obligations while delivering outstanding service to our customers and communities.

Central to this role is a deep commitment to our vision and values : doing the decent thing staying customer-focused acting with openness and transparency taking accountability fostering inclusivity and kindness and delivering services that enable everyone to flourish.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire the Finance team to deliver timely accurate financial management information aligned with strategic goals.
• Develop and maintain a robust financial control framework ensuring compliance with regulatory legal and funder requirements.
• Oversee treasury management funding arrangements and the implementation of Treasury Management Strategy.
• Drive the annual budgeting business planning and ongoing financial reporting processes.
• Lead effective procurement practices and development of financial policies including fraud prevention and money laundering.
• Manage business partnering to support operational managers with insightful financial guidance for decision-making.
• Oversee rent service charge credit control and payables operations ensuring regulatory compliance and best practice.
• Ensure timely production of statutory financial statements coordinate audits and lead finance systems improvements.
• Manage tax compliance cash flow loan portfolios and long-term financial planning including stress testing and scenario analysis.
• Maintain financial risk management policies and the Delegatory Framework promoting best practices across the Group.
• Ensure accurate and timely submissions of all regulatory and statutory returns.

What we are looking for

• Qualified accountant (ACA ACCA CIMA or CIPFA) with senior leadership experience managing complex finance functions.
• Influential communicator with strong negotiation and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Inspiring leader who drives team motivation aligned with organisational values.
• Expert in budget setting financial management and strategic planning.
• Skilled collaborator working across teams to deliver change and development.
• Tech‑savvy leveraging data analytics and finance systems to enhance performance and customer experience.
• Experienced in shaping financial strategies policies and controls to ensure compliance and improvement.
• Deep knowledge of financial governance controls and processes.
• Proficient in advanced IT Excel and integrated finance systems.
• Effective at converting strategy into operational outcomes through cross‑functional collaboration.
• Strong analytical skills to produce clear insightful reports.
• Committed to fostering a customer‑centric culture focused on service excellence.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills adaptable to diverse audiences.

We offer a range of great benefits including

• Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided
• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and a holiday a buy scheme.
• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions
• Company funded access to a health cash plan where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical dental and much more.
• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay
• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme free counselling mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives
• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.
• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career
• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism LGBTQ disability and long-term health conditions carers and menopause.

MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however we encourage candidates to submit an ammonised CV if they can do so.

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role.

If you wish to discuss the role informally please contact Steve Aggett Executive Director Finance and Business Excellence on

First stage in person interviews are scheduled to take place on Friday 14th November 2025 please refer to the candidate pack for further details and timeframes for the role.

We’re passionate about inclusion and would love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.

If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for.

We apply the principles of the Rooney Rule in the recruitment of senior management positions automatically shortlisting candidates to the next stage in the recruitment process who meet the selection criteria. We are also a Disability Confident employer and will shortlist disabled applicants who meet the selection criteria.

The Company

We own and manage almost 9000 homes across Greater Manchester Lancashire and West Yorkshire and pride ourselves on being a housing association that retains our original values and missions and continues to deliver a range of housing solutions to the most vulnerable in MSV our main priority has and always will be to deliver and build on the services we provide as a social values embrace equality and inclusion and are genuinely focussed on people. We want better life chances for our people we work with customers to strengthen our business and we want to see fewer homeless people and people in poverty.

Our Benefits

As well as a competitive salary attractive pension and holiday entitlement there are many other reasons to work for MSV! Our colleagues are important to us thats why we offer a full programme of training flexible working and health & wellbeing support.

Some of the Health & Wellbeing benefits you can access when you join MSV include :

Sick pay scheme

Up to three months full pay and three months half pay after one years service.

Eye test

MSV will pay for eye examinations and contribute towards prescription lenses / frames or contact lenses for staff using VDU equipment.

Support helpline

Free 24hr / 7days a week telephone support. Face-to-face counselling can be made available too in some cases.

Training in Health & Safety

Mental Health first aiders & Mental Health Awareness training

Cycle to Work scheme

Our Culture

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 50001 - 999999999