Finance Manager - Property & Assets

Southway Housing; Wythenshawe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused housing association is seeking a Finance Manager - Property & Assets to lead financial monitoring of properties and assets. The role involves creating financial reports, managing KPIs, and improving internal processes. Candidates should have advanced accounts skills, excellent communication abilities, and strong Excel proficiency. This position offers the chance to contribute to thriving communities across Greater Manchester.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to explain financial information clearly to residents.
• Experience in managing relationships with internal customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of financial data reports and reporting tools.
• Report key performance indicators and identify risks.
• Prepare long term budgets based on various data sources.
• Support programme returns and grant claims preparation.
• Prepare fixed asset register and general ledger entries.
• Assist budget holders with electronic purchase order systems.

Skills

Advanced accounts and general ledger skills

Excellent verbal communication skills

Strong Excel skills

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity in the Finance team for a Finance Manager - Property & Assets to lead Southway Group's financial monitoring of its property and assets programme. This will entail collaborative work with service managers whilst preparing and reporting KPIs to demonstrate performance and driving improvements through internal controls and processes. For an informal discussion about this role please contact Bhups Gohil, Assistant Director of Finance.

Responsibilities

1. Lead the development of effective reporting tools and financial data reports for the Property Services and Assets Teams to support the provision of good quality information for decision making, including concise written reports for the Executive and others.
2. Regular reporting of key performance indicators to show performance against targets (operational and financial), trends and any risk to Southway including non-compliance, reduced income/spend levels, loss of grant, ensuring escalation where necessary to develop remedial actions.
3. Contrast the results of stock condition surveys to Business Plan assumptions. Prepare and monitor long term budgets based on data from various sources including programme schedules, survey results and data from housing management system. This should outline any slippage, savings, acceleration and overspends, with corresponding impacts on current and future year budgets.
4. Support preparation of programme returns and grant claims to external partners (identifying works, administration and staffing elements), ensuring all data and explanations are evidenced with colleagues before submission.
5. Prepare fixed asset register and general ledger entries using data from the stock investment programme to ensure the accountancy for the capital works costs and related grant are correctly identified for individual properties and components.
6. Prepare budgets for Property Services including analysis of different workstreams (and agree recharges between DLO and the client) to ensure value for money is achieved via operational delivery.
7. Ensure the Finance Apprentice (Property & Assets) liaises productively with budget holders to analyse results and consider actions to deliver effective budgetary control.
8. Identify and drive improvements in processes and procedures which impact the financial performance of the repairs and maintenance service.
9. Assist budget holders to operate an effective system of electronic purchase order and invoice authorisation routines, resolving individual users' difficulties. Support budget holders to enable them to navigate through the financial processes, including the NOPO report, to improve data integrity and accurately record costs and grant income to be accrued.
10. Provide information to the Finance Operations team supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts, annual statutory accounts and other reports as required (e.g. Funders Report) outlining performance and explanations on variances.

Qualifications

• Advanced accounts and general ledger skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills, able to explain financial information to residents and manage relations with internal customers effectively.
• Strong Excel skills, with a knowledge of a range of functions and their application.

About Southway Housing Trust

Southway Housing Trust is a committed and forward-thinking community focused housing association dedicated to providing excellent homes and outstanding customer care. With a vision of Thriving Communities, Southway manages over 6,500 homes across Greater Manchester.

Southway strives to reduce child poverty, loneliness and isolation and increase employment, social connectedness and pride in neighbourhoods. Our REACH values of Respect, Equity, Ambition, Compassion and Honesty reflect Southway's culture, how we deliver our services, and our relationships with customers, colleagues and partners. Southway values diversity in all aspects of its communities and operations.