Junior Finance Business Partner

Centrepoint; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrepoint, a leading youth homelessness charity, seeks a Junior Finance Business Partner in Manchester. Join a team that ensures effective financial management and supports the charity’s growth, while benefiting from excellent training, development, and a competitive salary in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

25 days annual leave, increasing to 27

Healthcare cash plan

Private medical insurance

Income protection

5% employer pension contributions

Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme

Interest-free travel loan

Qualifications

• Effective communicator with ability to facilitate open conversations.
• Proactive in finding creative solutions.
• Competent in using Excel at an intermediate level.

Responsibilities

• Assist the finance business partner with key stakeholder engagement.
• Support preparation of monthly management reporting with commentary.
• Analyze management accounts and instigate consequent actions.

Skills

Communication

Decision Making

Empathy

Flexibility

Proactiveness

Analytical Skills

Excel

Job description

Contract: Fixed Term Contract - 12 month

Salary: £24,840 to £30,403 per annum

Closing Date: 26th June 2025

Interviews will be held w/c 30th June 2025

Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for Junior Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Business Partner team based in Manchester.

About Us

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.

Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year.

The Finance Team at Centrepoint plays an integral part in ensuring that we spend our money effectively and efficiently and we are supporting our business growth by expanding our Business Partner team. This is an exciting time to join our team. If you have Housing or Charity experience, it will be a plus!

Centrepoint operates a hybrid working model. The current requirement is a minimum of two days in the office per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. From 1 July 2025, this will increase to a minimum of 50% of your working week. For most full-time colleagues, this means attending the office for five days over a two-week period (e.g., two days one week and three days the next). For colleagues on different contracts (including part-time or compressed contracts) this will be adjusted accordingly.

About You

• Effective communicator with natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
• Able decision maker with a can do attitude.
• Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
• Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
• Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
• Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.
• Skilled in interpreting and presenting management accounts information.
• Competent in using Excel at an intermediate level.
• Housing or Charity experience is desirable but not essential
  
  

What You’ll Be Doing

• To assist the finance business partner to work and engage key stakeholders across the organisation
• To support with the preparation of high-quality monthly management reporting with commentary within agreed time cycles including preparing and posting monthly schedule of deferred & accrued income & expenditure, ensuring all income and expenditure are correctly posted.
• Analyse the management accounts and instigate the appropriate consequent actions.
• To support the Finance Business Partner to prepare the annual budget and to flex the budgets as activities develop throughout the year within agreed timeframes. To provide financial forecasts as required.
  
  

Why join Centrepoint?

In return for your efforts, you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

• 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
• Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
• Private Medical insurance
• Income protection
• Employer pension contributions of 5%
• Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
• An interest-free travel loan
  
  

At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.

Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Junior Finance Business Partner click ‘Apply’ now!