Finance Manager

HSPG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A social impact real estate company in Greater London is seeking a qualified accountant to manage reporting and analysis of financial performance. The role involves working with the finance director, preparing management accounts, and overseeing financial accounting for various platforms. The ideal candidate will demonstrate meticulous attention to detail and have experience in long-term financial modeling, particularly in the property development sector. This is a full-time permanent position with opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

25 holiday days per year

Wellness allowance of £70 per month

Private healthcare

Enhanced parental leave

Employee referral scheme

Qualifications

• Meticulous attention to detail in financial reporting.
• Ability to develop comprehensive financial plans.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Report financial performance to stakeholders accurately.
• Support the preparation of monthly management accounts.
• Complete a detailed review of historic ledgers.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)

Experienced in long term business modelling

Business Central user experience

Job description

Platform: HSPG - Group
Status: Full time, permanent.
Salary: TBD
Bonus: TBD
Working arrangement: We work 4 days in the office, 1 day from home.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Start: ASAP

THE BENEFITS

• 25 holiday days per year
• 4 “Me Days” per year (take a Me Day – focus on you)
• Team social events and trips
• Wellness allowance of £70 per month to be used for gym, classes, physio or other wellness costs
• Private healthcare with Vitality
• Mintago financial platform
• Drive Electric salary sacrifice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave
• Employee referral scheme: £2,000 towards a getaway of your choice

About HSPG

HSPG is a social impact real estate company. Our mission is simple: building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities. There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community.

We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures.

Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners.

HSPG aims to positively impact our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners.

Core Behaviours

Your core mission is to influence our strategy and how we operate to enable us to create more homes for people who need them most. You will do this by initially reporting on the historical finances of the platforms in an accurate and timely way. Alongside this internal focus, there is also the requirement for commercial and external-facing financial reporting.

You will work closely with key stakeholders across the Group, including the Investment, Asset Management, Operations and Finance teams, and will be responsible for providing on-time, accurate and insightful reporting and analysis that helps the business to make the right decisions and drive additional value, assisting in the forecasting of future financial performance.

You will develop a deep understanding of how important the regulatory housing environment is, with a desire to constantly enhance your knowledge in this area, although attitude and application to learn are just as important as having this knowledge already.

You will support the Finance Director with the preparation of monthly management accounts, SLT reports, board papers, and annual accounts as well as responding to audit queries to finalise accounts and tax returns.

Your ambition is to lead financial accounting for your business platform, taking accountability for the accurate reporting of all financial information.

Obsessed About

• Perfection: ensuring all finance reports are perfect, on time with right first-time approach
• Tenacity: getting answers out of others
• Discretion: you’re handling sensitive information all the time – treat it with respect
• Curiosity: look beyond the numbers to understand the actual business that lies beneath
• Communication: build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, and present information clearly, to finance and non-finance professionals

Excel: Areas of Excellence

• Agility: being super responsive to the needs of the business
• Meticulous: phenomenal attention to detail
• Technical: informed and knowledgeable on accounting treatments, and a desire to continually further development through work-based and other targeted learning
• Strategic: drive your work with a commercial edge, ensuring it is easily digestible and relatable for your audience

Specific Experience

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Experienced in long term business modelling, preferably in a property development or investment context
• Business Central user experience is a plus

Outcomes & Metrics

0-3 months: Develop a comprehensive understanding of the group’s financial performance and requirements. Report financial position, including P&L, BS and CFS, to Group and Senior Stakeholders. Complete a detailed review of historic ledgers and postings to import additional detail from legacy systems to enable property by property reporting. Prepare process and control documents to formalise activities of the finance team, by platform. Understand Platform capital requirements and liquidity needs. Drive efficiency by supporting the roll out to the business of purchase order system.

3-6 months: Production of monthly management accounts with insightful variance analysis of performance versus business plan. KPI reporting, resource requirements, asset performance, ROI assessments. Assist in the consolidation of group monthly and annual management accounts. Detailed understanding of liquidity requirements and ownership of key portfolio forecasts. Optimise use of the recently adopted ERP system for Platform reporting.

6-12 months+: Ownership of the Platform's financial planning cycle, reporting, and performance management activities. Be a trusted advisor to the Platform, providing financial oversight and support by influencing key decisions by thorough analysis, offering new perspectives, and recommending strategic solutions. Advise on business planning assumptions, headwinds, and opportunities, driving solutions and accelerating benefit realisation. Production of Platform's updated forecast and strategic plan, with full understanding of KPI, risk and opportunities by all key stakeholders.