Senior Finance Manager - Affordable Housing

LegalAndGeneral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services group is seeking a Senior Finance Manager in London. This role involves leading month-end activities, enhancing profit forecasting processes, and collaborating across functions. Ideal candidates will be qualified accountants with experience in high-growth environments and excellent communication skills. The company promotes flexible working options, competitive benefits, and an inclusive culture.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Electric car scheme

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in high-growth environments with process development.
• Understanding of corporate and group accounting structures.
• Energetic, motivated, and detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Leading month-end activities and preparing reports.
• Enhancing profit and liquidity forecasting processes.
• Partnering with functional leads for departmental reporting.
• Supporting transactional activity and integrating acquisitions.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Strong technical and commercial acumen

Excellent communication skills

Ability to meet deadlines

Collaborative team leader

Strong IT capabilities

Education

Accountancy qualification

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Tableau

Job description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

As part of the wider L&G Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. We are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes.

Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, we strive to be the UK's leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes.

Job Description

We're recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager to join us. We're offering a competitive base salary.

You will support our Financial Controller in delivering best-in-class financial support across the business.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading month-end activities and preparing management reports for Board and client presentations
• Enhancing and maintaining profit and liquidity forecasting processes
• Partnering with functional leads to deliver insightful departmental reporting
• Collaborating cross-functionally to provide financial challenge and commercial insight
• Supporting transactional activity and integrating acquisitions into business-as-usual
• Automating finance reporting using Power BI or Microsoft Tableau
• Reviewing finance processes and controls to ensure relevance and alignment
• Working with the Senior Management Accountant to maintain ledger and system integrity

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• Qualified accountant with strong technical and commercial acumen
• Experience in high-growth environments with process and control development
• Understanding of corporate, group, JV and LLP accounting structures
• Ability to meet Group deadlines and work within a large corporate setting
• Collaborative team leader with excellent communication skills
• Energetic, motivated and detail-oriented approach
• Strong IT and presentation capabilities
• Property and Real estate sector experience, however social housing is not essential

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.