Senior Finance Business Partner in London

DBS Level: Basic Hybrid / Ealing About A2Dominion We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership. Role Overview As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with Directors and senior leaders to provide insight, challenge and commercial support that drives informed decision-making, strong performance and long-term financial sustainability. This is a newly created role within a new Finance Business Partnering function focused on moving beyond reporting to delivering meaningful insight. You'll play a key role in shaping a modern, technology-enabled finance function, using data, automation and AI to improve decision-making while building strong relationships and influencing outcomes across the organisation. To be considered for this role, you must be a fully qualified accountant with significant Finance Business Partnering experience. Key Responsibilities: Partner with Directors and senior leaders, providing insight, challenge and financial guidance to support strategic decision-making. Lead budgeting, forecasting and business planning activities across your portfolio, ensuring robust financial performance and long-term sustainability. Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders. Drive value for money, identifying risks, opportunities and areas for continuous improvement. Lead the development of business cases, investment appraisals and financial analysis to support key organisational decisions. Champion data-led decision-making, automation and AI-enabled ways of working across the Finance function. Coach and support colleagues, helping to build capability within a newly formed Finance Business Partnering team. Play a key role in shaping a modern, insight-driven Finance function during an exciting period of transformation.More about you: Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA). Significant Finance Business Partnering experience, including partnering directly with Directors, Executives, Heads of Service or senior leadership teams to influence strategic and operational decision-making. Experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and providing insight, challenge and recommendations to support business outcomes. Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial planning experience, including providing financial challenge, analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders. Evidence of influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to support decision-making. Ability to present financial information and insight confidently to non-finance audiences. Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn financial and operational data into actionable recommendations. Experience driving process improvements, automation or more efficient ways of working. Strong Excel skills and experience using reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI.Desirable Experience within social housing or a similarly regulated environment. Experience of finance transformation, organisational change or working within a newly formed function. Experience using AI tools such as Copilot or Claude within a professional environment. Experience with Dynamics 365, Power Query, Power Automate, SQL or Python.Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of the role, including key responsibilities and requirements. Why A2Dominion? As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life. We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include: * 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) * Up to 8% contributory pension * In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family. Diversity & Inclusion We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team We know some people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If that’s you, we encourage you to apply if your skills and experience align – please get in touch with us to talk it through. At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers. This vacancy is being managed by Hollie Shepherd. We reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate