Founder's Associate

HSPG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 holiday days per year

4 ‘Me Days’ per year

Wellness allowance of £70/month

Private healthcare

Employee referral scheme: £2,000

Job summary

A social impact real estate company is seeking an Executive Assistant to support the CEO by owning research, financial modelling, and decision-making processes. This role demands strong analytical capabilities and experience in high-intensity environments. The ideal candidate will ensure that the CEO can focus on strategic priorities while handling detailed follow-up and exploration of ideas. The position offers a collaborative work environment with a blend of office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and financial modelling capability.
• Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or similar.
• Proven experience working closely with senior decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth.
• Transform early-stage thinking into structured decisions.
• Ensure effective follow-up on actions and deliverables.

Skills

Analytical capability

Financial modelling

High-leverage output

Sharp questioning

Job description

HSPG is a social impact real estate company.

Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.

There is a critical shortage of affordable housing across the UK. We partner with Local Authorities and institutional investors to acquire and manage high-quality, demand‑driven homes across multiple tenures.

Across our Living Sector platforms, we are on track to acquire 12,000 homes by 2030. These homes are grouped into portfolios, professionally managed by our team, and funded by long‑term institutional capital. We deliver this through two specialist operating platforms: Seahorse and PPHA.

Seahorse acquires, develops and manages homes for homeless residents across England through its Homeless Affordable Rent product, meeting urgent housing need with professionally managed, high‑quality accommodation. North Star: creating over 5,000 homes by 2029. PPHA, the Group’s Registered Provider, partners with local authorities, housebuilders and investors to deliver Section 106 and grant‑funded Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership homes, expanding supply and creating lasting social value. North Star: creating homes for over 8,000 families or individuals by 2030.

Together, these platforms enable HSPG to meet housing need at scale, creating meaningful social impact for customers and residents, while delivering sustainable, long‑term returns for our partners.

THE ESSENTIALS

• Platform: Group
• Status: Full time, permanent.
• Salary: £40,000‑£50,000
• Bonus: TBD
• Working arrangement: We typically work 4 days in the office, 1 day from home.
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
• Start: ASAP

CORE MISSION

Your core mission is to protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth by owning the detail, follow‑up, modelling and exploratory work beneath current and future‑facing ideas.

You turn early‑stage thinking into structured decisions, fast experiments or clear no‑go conclusions, without slowing the wider business down.

This role exists so the CEO can focus on strategy, capital and impact, while nothing slips underneath.

This is a high‑trust, high‑standards leverage role. Not a yes‑person, not a shadow executive, but a force multiplier.

Make it your mission to make it fun.

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

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE

• Strong analytical and financial modelling capability
• Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or similar high‑intensity environments
• Proven experience working closely with senior decision‑makers

OBSESS

• Clarity from ambiguity: turning half‑formed ideas into structured thinking
• High‑leverage output: outcomes over activity
• Relentless follow‑up: nothing dropped, nothing drifting
• Commercial, mission‑driven judgement: balancing impact and financial reality
• Speed from idea to action: reducing friction between thinking and execution

If you are not obsessed with these, this role is not for you.

EXCEL

• End‑to‑end ownership: taking workstreams from first question to final decision
• Exploratory financial modelling: building and adapting models to test early‑stage ideas
• BLUF communication: bottom line up front, concise summary followed by relevant detail
• Sharp questioning: joining dots quickly and challenging constructively
• Operating at pace: progressing work without constant prompting or supervision

90‑DAY WIN

• CEO time materially protected from research, admin and follow‑up
• 100 percent of relevant meetings captured with actions owned, delegated and tracked
• 1 to 3 early‑stage ideas researched or modelled to clear progress, test or kill decisions
• Investment team demonstrably freed from speculative or exploratory work
• At least one initiative delivered end‑to‑end without CEO micromanagement

12‑MONTH IMPACT OUTCOMES

• CEO consistently operating at strategy, capital and impact level
• Clear track record of disciplined experimentation, ideas launched, tested, iterated or intentionally killed
• Time from idea to model to decision materially reduced across projects
• SLT confidence in leverage, reliability and execution speed materially increased
• Demonstrable business impact directly accelerated by ownership, modelling and structured follow‑through

These outcomes are bonus‑linked and reviewed monthly.

CORE BEHAVIOURS

ACCOUNTABILITY

You are accountable for:

• Early‑stage research and exploratory modelling
• Meeting preparation, action capture and structured follow‑through
• Delegating and tracking actions across internal and external stakeholders
• Owning CEO‑adjacent project workstreams

You are not accountable for:

• Platform P&L ownership
• People management
• Culture leadership
• Brand or marketing direction
• Operational process design across platforms

PROGRESSION

• This is a high‑leverage launchpad role.
• There is no fixed progression path, which is deliberate.
• If you crush this role, you will outgrow it.
• Strong performance can lead into multiple areas of the business including investment, development, capital, operations or platform leadership.
• Progression is not time‑based. It is impact‑based.
• As you demonstrate sustained leverage, ownership and judgement, we will work with you to identify where your strengths and interests align across the Group.