Head of Finance - Reporting & Controls in England

As one of the key senior leaders within the finance function, you will work in partnership with the CFO and other Heads of Finance to continue to develop our finance service into a high performing, best in class service, and ensure confidence in financial reporting through robust financial controls.

Responsibilities

• You will form a strong partnership with our newly appointed CFO, to work alongside the other Heads of Finance to build and lead a finance function that has the capability through its controls and processes to effectively report and utilise both qualitative and quantitative financial data to drive organisational performance and decision‑making.
• You will have primary responsibility and full oversight of financial controls, all statutory and regulatory accounting activities including rents and service charges for Your Housing Group.
• This role includes tax, audit, financial risk and business continuity planning, finance policies and procedures, and financial compliance, enabling the delivery of accurate and consistent financial reporting.

Qualifications and Experience

• To be successful as our fixed term Head of Finance – Reporting & Controls, you will be a confident decision maker, a leader of people, and a strong influencer.
• You will need to have a keen future focus, be able to identify and implement both operational and policy improvements, ensuring these are adopted throughout the finance function as best practice.
• You should be an inspirational developer of people, with a genuine desire to further the skills and experience of the employees within your teams through effective communication, mentorship, and training.
• This role is ideally suited to someone who’s exceptional at building and maintaining senior stakeholder relationships, experienced in contributing to the development and enabling the delivery of the vision, ensuring full understanding, and engagement with these senior stakeholders and the teams they lead.
• We are looking for a senior finance professional with knowledge of the Housing Sector, who relishes having both a high level of autonomy and the opportunity to work operationally with the teams within your remit to really own the numbers.

Company Overview

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford. As one of the North’s sector‑leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK’s housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

Benefits and Compensation

In return we offer £75,000 to £90,000 for a 35‑hour week, and 25 days annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays. We offer a flexible, homeworking culture where you’re trusted to get the job done. If you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, if it fits with business needs, we’re open to what works for you too. When you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House – our purpose‑built collaboration, wellbeing and social space in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that provides dental and optician cashback as well as health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half‑price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high‑street and online names.

At #TeamYHG we measure performance on outputs and quality, not hours and minutes.