Finance Manager

Salary: £65,782 to £73,091 per annum for 35 hours per week.

Location: Bruce Kenrick House, 2 Killick Street, London N1 9FL

Workplace Type: Hybrid - 2 days in the office per week

What you’ll do

As the Finance Manager – Building Safety, you will lead the financial partnership between the Finance team and our Building Safety programme. Working closely with the Head of Asset Business Partnering and senior stakeholders across the organisation, you will ensure that building safety initiatives are supported by robust financial planning, insight, and governance. You’ll play a key role in ensuring the financial management of building safety programmes is effective, compliant, and aligned with organisational priorities. By providing clear financial analysis, strategic advice, and strong financial controls, you will help ensure that vital safety investment delivers the best outcomes for residents and the organisation. You’ll also support a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus across Finance and operational teams.

How you’ll do it

• Support the Head of Asset Business Partnering in overseeing the financial implications of the Group’s Building Safety programmes.
• Provide strategic financial business partnering to Building Safety and Asset teams, offering insight and challenge to support informed decision-making.
• Lead accurate and timely financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for building safety initiatives and related investment programmes.
• Develop and maintain financial models and tracking frameworks to monitor project performance and ensure programmes deliver against their financial objectives.
• Deliver high‑quality financial analysis and reporting that identifies risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management focus.
• Ensure building safety costs and recoveries are accounted for accurately and in compliance with relevant legislation and accounting standards.
• Maintain and analyse complex financial datasets using Excel and internal systems to support robust decision‑making.
• Support appraisal and evaluation processes for strategic investment projects, ensuring sound financial assumptions and value for money.
• Implement and maintain strong financial controls and processes to manage emerging opportunities, risks, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage and develop finance business partners, supporting their professional development and building a high‑performing team culture.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

• Fully qualified CCAB accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent) with evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant experience of finance business partnering, providing financial expertise and constructive challenge to non‑finance stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence at different organisational levels.
• Demonstrable experience supporting operational and project activities through financial insight and analysis.
• Strong analytical capability, including experience working with large and complex datasets to support decision‑making.
• Proficiency in Excel, with experience using financial systems and reporting tools (knowledge of D365 and Power BI is desirable).
• Experience managing or mentoring team members and supporting their development.
• Strong ethical standards and commitment to professional integrity, objectivity, and confidentiality.
• Knowledge or experience of building safety regulations and accounting practices is desirable.

What’s in it for you?

Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not‑for‑profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.