Strategic Finance Business Partner - Joint Ventures

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Investment and Development Finance team as Strategic Finance Business Partner - Joint Ventures, supporting SNG's Joint Venture activities and major projects. Working across SNG's geography, you'll be a trusted partner to new business and development teams working on joint venture and major project activities, fostering strong collaborative relationships.

With offices in Basingstoke, Bristol and Wembley, we can be flexible on your base location. You'll share your time between the office and home, as well as some travel being required between our offices.

SGN is one of the largest housing associations in England. We provide over 85,000 homes and invest in communities across London, the South East, South West and East of England, as well as aiming to create thousands of new affordable homes every year.

Responsibilities

Reporting into the Head of Finance - Joint Ventures, you'll lead commercial finance support for SNG's Joint Venture activities and major projects, ensuring robust financial modelling, accurate reporting, and insightful analysis to enable informed decision-making and performance monitoring. Responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and enhancing detailed financial models for Joint Ventures (JV) projects, ensuring accuracy and flexibility, for monthly reporting, forecasting, budgeting and scenario planning.
• Preparing investment appraisals to assess the viability of potential projects, to include sensitivity testing and scenario analysis as well as ad hoc analysis for JVs or other major projects.
• Delivering all JV month end reporting, and delivering timely, accurate and clearly presented JV financial MI reporting to feed into board reports and performance dashboards.
• Working with the wider finance function to support statutory reporting requirements for JV entities, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards.
• Producing and maintaining JV cash flow forecasts to inform treasury planning and funding requirements, and assisting in preparing baseline models and assumptions for business planning purposes.
• Providing financial and commercial advice on speculative JV projects, including financial metrics (e.g. profit margins, peak debt, ROCE & IRR) and risk analysis, providing clear recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Supporting financial due diligence on JV partners, entity structures, and contractual terms, collaborating with treasury and tax teams to assess debt arrangements and tax implications for new JV projects.

Qualifications

You’ll be a fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with significant experience providing commercial financial advice, strategic decision support, and financial appraisal modelling within the wider Real Estate or Social Housing sectors. Experience within Joint Ventures is highly desirable. You’ll also have:

• An excellent track record in business partnering, investment appraisals, performance reporting and financial planning.
• Strong, clear working knowledge of processes and controls surrounding budgeting, forecasting and management reporting preparation, including detailed report writing and analysis.
• High Commercial and financial acumen with strong analysis skills and excel modelling experience, with ability to assess metrics such as profit margins, peak debt, ROCE & IRR and risk analysis.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and influence at senior level.
• High attention to detail and comfortable working to deadlines.
• Knowledge of PowerBI would be advantageous.

Benefits

We have some great benefits at SNG, including:

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days).
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package.
• 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days.
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary.
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover.
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service.

At SNG, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. If you would like the opportunity to make a real impact within our changing and growing organisation, we would love to hear from you!