What you'll be doing
Finance Business Partner
£55,300 pa / Bath / Hybrid
Full Time / Permanent / 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 4th April 2025
1st Stage Interviews: 10th April 2025
Your Financial Expertise. Our Strategic Decisions. Affordable Homes for All.
When teams need to make critical business decisions, they need accurate financial insights. The Finance Business Partner role ensures we have the precise data and analysis to drive performance, collaborating with stakeholders to set and achieve targets while maintaining the highest standards of financial reporting.
This position sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations. It offers excellent scope - from providing accurate management accounts and insightful variance analysis to working collaboratively with budget holders across the organisation, all while supporting our rotating system that gives you exposure to different business areas every few years.
Imagine using your financial acumen to inform strategic decisions that ensure our resources are effectively utilised, our targets are achieved, and our social purpose is fulfilled through sound financial management.
What you'll be doing
* You'll be the trusted advisor for budget holders and senior stakeholders, providing accurate financial information that helps them make informed decisions
* You'll collaborate with operational teams to set realistic targets, working together to develop strategies that achieve financial goals
* You'll prepare precise management accounts and detailed variance analysis, turning complex financial data into clear insights that drive performance
* You'll adapt to working across different business areas as part of our rotation system, bringing fresh perspectives while tackling diverse challenges including complex areas like Property Services
* You'll take ownership of specific organisational challenges, working collaboratively in a matrix-style environment to develop and implement effective solutions
* You'll ensure the highest standards of financial control and compliance, balancing meticulous accuracy with the need to make timely, pragmatic decisions.
What you'll get in return
Beyond a salary of £55,300 and the chance to make a real difference every day, you'll get:
* 26 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years
* Your birthday off as an extra holiday
* Up to 10% matched pension contribution
* Hybrid working (3 days office, 2 days home)
* Flexible benefits which might include a Health Cash Plan
* Access to an Employee Assistance Programme for your own wellbeing.
More about you
You're the person who brings clarity to financial complexity. With your professional qualification from a chartered accountancy body (or equivalent experience), you excel at delivering highly accurate financial information while building collaborative relationships that drive results.
People naturally turn to you because your analytical approach and commitment to accuracy build trust and confidence. You're equally comfortable discussing detailed financial matters with colleagues in finance, explaining implications to operational teams, or presenting insights to senior stakeholders.
When challenges arise, you stay focused and solution-oriented. You can identify patterns in financial data and translate them into actionable recommendations. You adapt easily to new business areas and thrive in a fluid, matrix-style environment where priorities may shift.
What really drives you?
Making a difference through financial expertise. You find genuine satisfaction in helping teams achieve their goals through sound financial management, knowing you've contributed to both operational excellence and the social purpose that sits at the heart of our organisation.
About Curo
We're a leading South West housing association with social purpose at our heart. We provide affordable homes and create positive futures in our communities. We're proud to be among the UK's top 100 companies to work for, and the 5th best housing association nationwide.
We actively welcome applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBTQ+, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and from our Curo customers. We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone -- if you need any adjustments to help you apply or interview, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk
Would you like to have an informal discussion about the role?
Please contact Ian Sheppard (Director of Financial Services) on 07533 772469.
About Curo
Curo is an organisation with social purpose at its heart. We provide affordable homes that help people find security and stability and a positive future. We're one of the largest housing associations in the South West and an expanding house builder, using our profits to create more affordable housing in our communities.
Our values are at the core of how we work. We care about our colleagues and their wellbeing and recognise their sense of pride in the work they do to support our customers.
We're proud to say that since 2016 we have been ranked by Best Companies as being in the UK's top 75 Large Companies to work for. We're also listed in the top 10 best housing associations to work for in the country, and among the top 25 best companies to work for in the South West!
One more thing
We provide homes and services to a community that is diverse. We recognise that we need to do more to ensure that the colleagues in our organisation better reflect and understand the community we serve and for that reason we particularly welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and abilities. We are a recognised 'disability confident' employer and we have also signed up to the Social Housing Anti-Racism Pledge (SHARP). We guarantee to interview all disabled, black or minority ethnic applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.
If you need support to assist you to make an application or attend an interview, then please email our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk and we will be happy to help.
Benefits
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