Head of Strategic Finance in Middlesbrough

Thirteen Group is on the lookout for a Head of Strategic Finance to drive organisational success through expert financial insight, business partnering, and strong treasury and tax oversight. This is a great opportunity to join a financially strong, well governed organisation and support the delivery of great outcomes for our customers through effective resource allocation, ensuring every pound is spent in the right place. You’ll promote strong financial stewardship and deliver a funding strategy that enables the delivery of our ambitious strategic priorities.

This is a hybrid role, so you’ll work from home and around 2-3 days a week from our fantastic office at Hudson Quay in Middlesbrough. We’ll need you to be flexible around business and team need, so you may need to come into the office more frequently when required.

Thirteen Benefits:

• Salary: £81,605 per annum
• Annual leave: starting at 28 days and rising to 31 days after three years, a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays.
• Pension: up to 17% contributions (flexible contribution rates of up to 7% colleague and up to 10% employer).
• Simply Health: save money on common health expenses and get access to health and wellbeing support services.
• T’dar: our Discount and Reward platform giving you huge savings on everyday brands.
• Opportunities to buy and sell annual leave.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 3 direct reports and lead a service of 13 colleagues, with responsibility for finance business partnering and appraisals, tax, treasury and financial planning functions.
• Deliver trusted financial analysis and insight that supports strategic decision making, strengthens business performance and supports effective resource allocation.
• With overall responsibility for the financial plan, you’ll support your team to deliver comprehensive financial modelling and stress testing, bringing opportunities and risks to life.
• Maintain and strengthen excellent relationships with banking partners, lenders, advisors and stakeholders to secure funding opportunities that enable continued investment and service enhancements for our customers.

About You:

• You’ll have a recognised accounting body or treasury qualification, with significant post qualification experience.
• With leadership experience within a finance business partnering role, you'll have supported your team to deliver service excellence whilst demonstrating an understanding of the bigger picture and how to allocate resources effectively.
• Great at people engagement and communication, with the ability to negotiate, influence, and build trust at all levels, particularly with lenders and key external stakeholders.
• A track record in designing and implementing policies and strategies, ideally within tax, treasury and planning services.
• You’ll be confident in preparing and presenting reports for leadership, committees and boards to support informed decision making, bringing complex financial topics to life.

Why Thirteen Group?

• We’re more than just a housing association – we’re a community builder. As the largest housing association in the North East and among the top 25 nationally, we manage over 36,000 properties.
• Join a team that’s local at heart but welcomes talent from everywhere.
• Be part of an organisation that values diversity and inclusivity.
• Be a part of a company that offers tailored support services, going beyond just housing solutions.

If you’d like to talk more about the role, please contact Amy Dryden, Finance Director for an informal discussion.

Join us at Thirteen Group and be a part of our vision to improve lives every day. APPLY NOW and start your journey towards making a meaningful impact in our community!

As part of our hiring process, if you’re successful we’ll need to verify your right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not a Skilled Worker Sponsoring Employer at this time.