Executive Director, Finance

• L&Q is looking for their new Executive Director, Finance.
• Executive Finance Director role in social housing.

About Our Client

L&Q is one of the UK’s leading housing charities and developers. Our roots date back more than 60 years, and we’ve been helping to shape some of the most exciting, diverse and dynamic regions in the country ever since.

Our vision is that everyone should have a quality home they can afford. We combine our social purpose and commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods we can be proud of. As a regulated charitable housing association, all the money we make is reinvested into new and existing homes, supporting successful communities and working with residents to create successful places. This makes us one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses.

Today the L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 100,000 homes, primarily across London and the South East, and we are delivering our ambition to provide thousands of new homes every year. L&Q are the largest developer in the sector delivering 2954 homes in 23/24.

Job Description

We are looking to recruit an innovative, talented and ambitious individual to lead our Finance Division to enable the organisation and the sector to deliver the homes desperately needed across London and the UK. Our Executive Group Director – Finance will play a pivotal role in enabling L&Q to finish delivering on our current strategy and to create our new strategy in 2025.

You will be committed to putting customers first and making L&Q a great place to work and will use these principles to drive the delivery of exceptional standards within the Finance Division.

Reporting to the Group Chief Executive, the Executive Group Director will be an integral part of the Executive team, so will also contribute to developing the strategic agenda and driving the performance of the Group in conjunction with the Board.

Working in partnership with the Executive and Board, you will ensure the organisation is creative in our approach and help continue to find solutions to fund new and existing development plans. You will bring your ability to innovate and support our forward growth ambitions as we strive to play a part in addressing the housing crisis. To be successful in this role you will need to be an experienced Finance Executive, having extensive board exposure and have delivered initiatives that have helped move organisations forward. It is essential that you have operated in a regulatory environment and have significant investment exposure.

The Successful Applicant

You will bring excellent leadership skills, be innovative in your approach and have a solid track record of working in large and complex organisations. You will be a natural collaborator and have a passion for developing people. You will also be able to draw upon a range of strengths and skills to deliver our vision. An excellent communicator, you will have an enthusiasm to get things done and move the agenda forward. You will be driven, highly professional, and have an understanding and appreciation of the diverse customers we support and work with, both now and in the future. You’ll need to be politically sensitive and will understand the regulatory landscape in which we operate and have the ability to manage associated risks. You will be totally aligned with our values and able to work collaboratively across the Group.

We value diversity in all its facets, including gender, disability, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity. When it comes to finding a diverse balance for our senior positions, we have decided to address gender and ethnicity first.

What’s on Offer

Competitive salary and package

Closing date is 4th November 2024