Finance Manager
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THE ESSENTIALS Platform: HSPG - Group |
THE BENEFITS: 25 holiday days per year; |
HSPG: A social impact real estate company
Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.
There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community.
We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below.
Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners.
HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners.
Core Behaviours:
Core mission:
Your core mission is to influence our strategy and how we operate to enable us to create more homes for people who need them most. You will do this by initially reporting on the historical finances of the platforms in an accurate and timely way. Alongside this internal focus, there is also the requirement for commercial and external-facing financial reporting.
You will work closely with key stakeholders across the Group, including the Investment, Asset Management, Operations and Finance teams, and will be responsible for providing on-time, accurate and insightful reporting and analysis that helps the business to make the right decisions and drive additional value, assisting in the forecasting of future financial performance.
You will develop a deep understanding of how important the regulatory housing environment is, with a desire to constantly enhance your knowledge in this area, although attitude and application to learn are just as important as having this knowledge already.
You will support the Finance Director with the preparation of monthly management accounts, SLT reports, board papers, and annual accounts as well as responding to audit queries to finalise accounts and tax returns.
Your ambition is to lead financial accounting for your business platform, taking accountability for the accurate reporting of all financial information.
Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you.
- Perfection: ensuring all finance reports are perfect, on time with right first-time approach
- Tenacity: getting answers out of others
- Discretion: you’re handling sensitive information all the time – treat it with respect
- Curiosity: look beyond the numbers to understand the actual business that lies beneath
- Communication: build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, and present information clearly, to finance and non-finance professionals
Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert.
- Agility: being super responsive to the needs of the business
- Meticulous: phenomenal attention to detail
- Technical: informed and knowledgeable on accounting treatments, and a desire to continually further development through work-based and other targeted learning
- Strategic: drive your work with a commercial edge, ensuring it is easily digestible and relatable for your audience
Specific experience:
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
- Experienced in long term business modelling, preferably in a property development or investment context
- Business Central user experience is a plus
Outcomes & Metrics: the desired result and how we measure it
| 0-3 months | Outcomes: the desired result | Metrics: How we measure it |
| Develop a comprehensive understanding of the group’s financial performance and requirements |
Report financial position, including P&L, BS and CFS, to Group and Senior Stakeholders |
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Complete a detailed review of historic ledgers and postings to import additional detail from legacy systems to enable property by property reporting going forward |
Complete migration of detail to recently adopted ERP |
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Preparation of process and control documents to formalise activities of the finance team, by platform |
Comprehensive suite of documents, including RACI |
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Understanding of Platform capital requirements and liquidity needs |
Inclusion of the portfolio financial position in the core group financial reports |
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Drive efficiency by supporting the roll out to the business of purchase order system |
Deliver training and ongoing support to non-Finance users |
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| 3-6 months |
Production of monthly management accounts with insightful variance analysis of performance versus business plan |
In depth understanding of the Platform's commercial drivers with insightful commentary |
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KPI reporting, resource requirements, asset performance, ROI assessments |
Production of revised Platform reporting suite, Including Insightful analysis of the Platform's KPI's and resource requirements |
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Assist in the consolidation of group monthly and annual management accounts |
Support decision making and capital allocation across the wider group, year end audit and tax returns |
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Detailed understanding of liquidity requirements and ownership of key portfolio forecasts |
Production of rolling liquidity forecast to support investment decisions |
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Optimise use of the recently adopted ERP system for Platform reporting |
Production of reports within the ERP system and demonstration of efficiencies created through process improvements. |
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| 6 - 12 months + |
Ownership of the Platform's financial planning cycle, reporting, and performance management activities |
Autonomous management of Platform's Financial output, with Finance Director support where required |
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Be a trusted advisor to the Platform, providing financial oversight and support by influencing key decisions by thorough analysis, offering new perspectives, and recommending strategic solutions |
Quantification of value creation, where possible, through assessment of decision impact and risk and opportunity management and delivery |
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Advise on business planning assumptions, headwinds, and opportunities, driving solutions and accelerating benefit realisation |
Production of Platform's updated forecast and strategic plan, with full understanding of KPI, risk and opportunities by all key stakeholders | |
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