Finance Manager - Treasury and Investment

MSV Housing Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused housing association in Greater Manchester seeks an experienced Finance Manager – Treasury and Investment. This role involves overseeing financial planning and operations, ensuring compliance, and driving efficiency while supporting corporate priorities. Candidates should be qualified accountants with a passion for community advocacy and experience in social housing.

Benefits

33 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions

Enhanced sick pay

Health and wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in relevant accounting roles.
• Ability to lead and motivate teams.
• Experience in a regulated sector such as social housing.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial systems and tools for investment.
• Develop and maintain treasury strategies.
• Oversee funding and lender relationships.

Skills

Qualified Accountant

Financial controls knowledge

Treasury management knowledge

Leadership and motivational skills

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA qualification

Job description

The Vacancy

Greater Manchester

Hours of Work: 35 per week

Closing date: 28th November 2025

At MSV Housing we're committed to making sure our customers have good quality safe homes and our Finance Managers are key to making this happen.

We are looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic individual to join our established team. Reporting to our Finance Director, you will oversee investment planning, treasury operations, and financial performance for property-related activities, ensuring compliance and supporting our corporate priorities. Leading a motivated team, you'll drive efficiency through robust budgeting, forecasting, and automation, while partnering across the business to maintain financial strength and excellent customer service.

In addition, we are looking for candidates that have a passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities.

What do our Finance Manager – Treasury and Investment do

• Manage key financial systems and tools including financial planning models, asset and liability registers, investment appraisals, and cashflow forecasting.
• Develop and maintain treasury strategy and policies, ensuring liquidity, compliance, and accurate cashflow reporting.
• Monitor and report on financial performance for growth, investment, and treasury plans, providing variance analysis and recovery plans where needed.
• Oversee funding and lender relationships, including debt management, covenant compliance, and loan security schedules.
• Lead financial performance reporting for development and capital investment programmes, delivering robust monthly processes, data integrity, and insightful analysis to support decision‑making and efficiency improvements.

What we are looking for

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CIPFA) or Treasury (MCT) – required to be qualified by experience (+5 years in relevant accounting roles).
• Experience of finance partnering with the development and growth team delivering new build and acquisitions, financial reporting of programme and scheme performance.
• Experience of working within a regulated sector such as social housing.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire in line with MSV's values and culture.
• Sound understanding of financial controls, policies and procedures.
• Thorough knowledge of treasury management.

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 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 inclusive 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. https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/

If you wish to discuss the roles informally, please contact Steve Aggett, Executive Director of Finance & Business Excellence on 07973161707.

Interview dates are to be confirmed; interviews will be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role will be closed if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we strongly recommend candidates to apply early.

We're passionate about inclusion and we'd 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.

The Company

We own and manage almost 9,000 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 society. For MSV our main priority has, and always will be, to deliver and build on the services we provide as a social values organisation. We 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, that's 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 year's 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

MSV Way: ... (company culture description).

Equality & Diversity.