Financial Planning Manager

Nigel Wright Group; Northallerton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Pension with life cover

BroadRewards access

Employee assistance programme

Learning and development opportunities

Wellbeing benefits (eye-care & flu-vax

Job summary

Broadacres is recruiting a Financial Planning Manager to lead the Financial Performance team and shape financial planning across the organisation. You will oversee management accounting, budgeting and forecasting, delivering trusted insights to support decision-making and long-term financial resilience.

The role reports to the Assistant Director of Finance and includes building a proactive business partnering service, regulatory reporting, treasury and value-for-money governance, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Qualified finance professional with strong management accounting experience.
• Proven budgeting and forecasting capabilities.
• Experience in business partnering and influencing decisions.
• Strong analytical and modelling skills; advanced Excel.
• Experience supporting year-end reporting and external audit.
• Able to lead and develop a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver timely management accounts, budgets and forecasts with variance analysis.
• Lead financial planning and long-term plans (5- and 30-year horizons).
• Develop a commercial finance business partnering service for senior leaders.
• Coordinate regulatory returns, statutory accounts, audits and taxation compliance.
• Oversee liquidity, cash-flow forecasting and treasury reporting.

Skills

Management accounting

Budgeting & forecasting

Business partnering

Financial analysis

Excel modelling

Audit support

Team leadership

Tools

Excel

Job description

Broadacres is the rural housing association for North Yorkshire. For more than 30 years, it has grown alongside the communities it serves and now owns more than 7,000 homes, supported by over 400 colleagues.

The organisation is ambitious about what comes next: providing more safe, affordable homes, strengthening customer services and ensuring it is equipped to respond to the changing needs of rural communities.

Its 18-month Firm Foundations programme is creating the platform for the next corporate strategy. With priorities spanning financial resilience, digital enablement, customer experience and organisational excellence, this is an important period of practical change and renewed ambition.

Broadacres is seeking a Financial Planning Manager who can build upon financial planning processes, elevate business partnering and give leaders the insight and constructive challenge needed to make confident, informed decisions.

With responsibility spanning performance reporting, long-term planning, treasury, regulatory returns, rents and service charges, this newly created role offers exceptional breadth and the scope to make a visible organisational impact.

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Finance, you will lead the Financial Performance team, managing four direct reports and a budget of £0.5 million.

You will oversee management accounting, budgeting and forecasting, while helping to move finance beyond reporting performance towards actively shaping it. A central priority will be developing a trusted and commercially minded business partnering service that provides relevant insight, constructive challenge and practical support to leaders across Broadacres. Your remit will also include long-term financial planning, treasury, statutory and regulatory reporting, rent and service charge setting, financial governance and value for money.

Key priorities will include:

• Deliver trusted, timely monthly management accounts, budgets and forecasts, supported by incisive variance analysis.
• Maintain five-year and 30-year financial plans using scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis and stress testing.
• Build a customer-focused finance business partnering model that strengthens understanding, ownership and accountability.
• Coordinate regulatory returns, statutory accounts, audit support and taxation compliance.
• Oversee liquidity, cash-flow forecasting, facility drawdowns, interest payments, lender covenants and treasury reporting.
• Lead transparent, compliant rent and service charge setting.
• Build a motivated, high-performing Financial Performance team.

About You

You will be a credible, fully qualified finance professional with strong management accounting, budgeting and forecasting experience. You will combine technical rigour with the ability to interpret complex information, identify what matters and communicate it clearly to non-finance audiences.

You will bring:

• A strong grounding in management accounting, planning and performance reporting.
• Experience of business partnering and influencing financial decisions.
• Excellent analytical, modelling and Excel capability.
• Experience supporting year-end reporting and external audit.
• The confidence to provide constructive challenge at all levels.
• Experience leading, motivating or developing others.
• A collaborative, visible and improvement-focused leadership style.

Rewards and Benefits

Alongside a salary of £61,286.04, the package includes:

• 33 days' annual leave, including bank holidays, increasing to 38 days with service.
• Pension options with life cover and ill-health provisions.
• Access to the BroadRewards platform.
• Confidential employee assistance and counselling support.
• Learning, development, training and qualification opportunities.
• Smart technology, eye-care and flu-vaccination benefits.