Are you ready to make a real impact? Join us as a Finance Business Partner – Property Services and help shape the future of social housing This is your chance to be the go to financial expert for our Property Services and Strategic Asset Management teams. Your financial insights will directly influence how we maintain and improve our housing stock, ensuring long-term sustainability and value for our customers. What You’ll Do: Be the key finance contact for the Property Services Directorate and Strategic Asset Management and provide expert financial support and advice. Manage timely, accurate financial reports on property repairs, compliance, and capital investments. Lead financial forecasting and support the annual budgeting process. Provide in-depth analysis to highlight trends and spot areas for improvement. Offer actionable insights that help drive better performance and decision-making. Support investment in asset management strategies, including environmental initiatives for the sustainability of our housing stock. Work closely with teams across the business, making sure financial information is clear and useful. What We’re Looking for: We are looking for a skilled finance professional with a strong background in business partnering. The ability to provide clear financial guidance, handle complex data analysis, and work collaboratively with non-financial teams is key to success in this role. You will need advanced Excel skills and a keen eye for detail, as well as excellent communication skills to deliver high quality financial reporting and advice. System We Use: SUN Accounting Asset 4000 FrameWorks (Bespoke Internal Housing Management Software) P2P What You’ll Bring: Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally in property or social housing. Expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for repairs, compliance, and capital investments. Advanced Excel skills and the ability to analyse complex financial data. Excellent communication skills to translate financial info for both finance and non-finance teams. A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Experience in supporting and providing investment appraisals is desirable. Further information For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email recruitmentparadigmhousing.co.uk and we will respond as soon as possible. As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves. Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far. Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified. About us We are Paradigm Housing Group. We manage more than 17,000 homes across the South East. We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford. As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents. We are a Best Companies two-star accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and commitment to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We are clearly focused on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including delivering one of the sector’s largest digital transformation programmes, improving our environment and sustainability targets and delivering more quality homes to people who need them. Our benefits Holidays – 25 days rising to 30 with length of service (30 days starting for senior roles) plus an extra three paid days off between Christmas and New Year, and the opportunity to buy up to another five days. Pension scheme: a defined contribution scheme with employer contributions of 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate. Car leasing scheme. Annual bonus potential. 1 paid professional subscription per year. Family friendly policies including generous paternity, maternity, shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more. Health cash plan – worth over £1,800 per year. Includes dental, optical, prescriptions and flu jabs, physiotherapy, chiropractic therapy, reflexology, Sports massage and more. Hybrid working for many roles. Up to three paid Giving Back (volunteer) Days a year. Modern collaborative offices, with free parking and charging points for electric vehicles. Opportunities for career development and progression. Social events such as quiz nights, Christmas Party, Summer BBQ. Our Vision We provide excellent services to customers. And build new homes to help more people. We make sure our homes are safe and sustainable. And strive to do more by making the most of our resources. Working For Us Our Values Safer Together The safety of our customers, colleagues and ourselves is a priority in everything we do. Driving Improvement We seek to do things better and deliver value to our customers. Working As One We work collaboratively with others and also take personal responsibility for delivering outcomes for our customers, colleagues and stakeholders. Acting Thoughtfully We make ourselves aware of our customers’ and colleagues’ circumstances, and consider this thoughtfully and respectfully, and with attention to the impact on the environment, when taking action. Being Clear We will communicate in a clear and consistent manner so that our customers, colleagues and stakeholders understand the high standards that we work to. Please note that customer facing roles may be subject to a DBS check. Documents