Assistant Finance Business Partner - Development in Manchester

Location: Greater Manchester

Hours of work: 35 per week

Closing date: 27 February 2026

Interviews: Early March 2026

At MSV Housing we're committed to making sure our customers have good quality safe homes and our Assistant Finance Business Partners are key to making this happen. We are looking to recruit an experienced individual to join our established team. Reporting to our Senior Finance Business Partner, the Assistant Finance Business Partner – Development supports effective financial planning, forecasting and performance management, ensuring accurate and timely management and statutory accounts. Working closely with Finance Business Partners and budget holders, it provides trusted insights that highlight risks and opportunities and drive value for money. It also ensures full regulatory compliance and supports MSV's corporate plan by helping maintain a financially strong, well‑governed organisation with a customer‑focused finance team. In addition, we are looking for candidates that have a passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities.

Responsibilities

• Support the financial performance management of the development programme through accurate monthly reporting, cash flow forecasting, scheme appraisals and maintenance of key financial systems.
• Deliver timely management accounts, tailored reporting and value‑added financial analysis that highlight risks, opportunities and support strong financial decision‑making across the business.
• Maintain accurate fixed asset and grant records, produce year‑end notes and disclosures, and complete reconciliations to support statutory accounts, external audit and financial compliance requirements.
• Contribute to financial planning by producing development spend forecasts and scheme information for senior management to inform long‑term financial modelling.
• Ensure high standards of financial governance through accurate transaction recording, strong data quality, adherence to financial regulations, robust internal controls, and effective support for audits and compliance submissions.

Qualifications

• Part‑qualified Accountant or qualified AAT or equivalent through relevant training/experience.
• Experience of working collaboratively with multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Ability to analyse complex data to produce reports and deliver information to a range of audiences.
• Experience of providing appropriate financial information.
• Strong IT skills including use of Excel, knowledge and use of finance and housing management systems.
• Interpersonal and presentation skills to enable effective communication in a variety of settings and audiences.

Benefits

• Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided.
• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy scheme.
• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions.
• Company funded access to a health cash plan.
• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay.
• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives.
• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.
• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career.
• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti‑racism, LGBTQ+, disability and long‑term health conditions, carers, and menopause.

Equality and Inclusion

MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion. All applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however, we encourage candidates to submit an anonymised CV if they can do so. We are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

How to Apply

For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role: https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/. To discuss the roles informally, please contact Graham Oliver, Head of Finance on 07841210797. Interviews are scheduled to take early March; however, interviews may be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role may close if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we strongly recommend candidates to apply early. We're passionate about inclusion and we'd love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role. If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for.

The Company

We own and manage almost 9,000 homes across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire and pride ourselves on being a housing association that retains our original values and missions and continues to deliver a range of housing solutions to the most vulnerable in society. For MSV our main priority has, and always will be, to deliver and build on the services we provide as a social values organisation. We embrace equality and inclusion and are genuinely focussed on people. We want better life chances for our people, we work with customers to strengthen our business and we want to see fewer homeless people and people in poverty.