Finance Business Partner

Are you a finance professional who enjoys seeing the story behind the numbers as much as the numbers themselves?

We’re looking for a fully-qualified Finance Business Partner to join Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) in a key role that combines strong technical accounting with meaningful business partnering. This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of our organisation, supporting housing services, shaping financial insight, and playing a central role in how we plan for the future.

About the Role

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll oversee the production of management accounts and provide high-quality financial insight to support decision-making across housing services and the wider business.

You’ll work closely with managers and senior leaders, helping them understand performance, challenge assumptions, and make informed choices. You’ll also play a key role in coordinating and shaping the annual budget process, ensuring plans are robust, realistic and aligned to organisational priorities.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both the big picture and the detail; from variance analysis and reconciliations through to strategic conversations about performance, risk and future planning.

While the role profile includes line management, there is no immediate requirement to manage staff, though this may develop over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the production of accurate and timely management accounts for allocated service areas

• Provide insightful financial analysis, including budget monitoring, variance analysis and forecasting

• Act as a trusted business partner to housing and operational teams, supporting informed decision-making

• Support and coordinate the annual budget setting and reforecasting processes

• Contribute to statutory accounts preparation, reconciliations and regulatory reporting

• Help maintain strong financial controls, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements

• Support continuous improvement of financial processes, systems and reporting

What We’re Looking For

• Full AAT qualification (or equivalent)

• Experience producing management accounts and delivering high-quality financial management information

• Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues

• Experience of budget monitoring, forecasting and variance analysis

• Strong technical accounting skills, with attention to detail and confidence in reconciliations

• Advanced Excel and strong overall IT skills

• An interest in reporting, performance insight and using data to support better decisions

• A proactive, flexible approach and the ability to manage competing priorities

Application Deadline - Sunday 22nd February

Please note the above date is subject to change, and the advert may be closed early dependent on applications received. If you are interested in applying, don't wait!

Why join us?

As an Investors in People Health & Wellbeing recognised employer we offer a wide range of benefits such as;

• 25 days Annual Leave, rising to 30 with length of service and subject to approval the option to buy and sell additional annual leave*
• Enhanced leave options for Maternity, Paternity, Adoption & Shared Parental Leave*
• Enhanced Pension scheme contributions
• Our Health Care Plan gives you money back for dental, optical, therapy costs and more
• Subsidised Healthy Living benefits i.e. gym membership or yoga classes
• Subsidised Leisure Learning benefits i.e. finance towards driving lessons or learning a new language
• Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work scheme*
• Volunteering days in the local community
• We offer a Salary Sacrifice Pension option*

*Subject to eligibility criteria

About Us

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) manages almost 14,000 properties, providing homes for more than 29,000 people in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

We are committed to investing in the health, wellbeing and development of colleagues, who we will reward fairly and empower and trust to deliver their best work for the benefit of WCHG, our customers and stakeholders. WCHG is an inclusive employer of choice, where differences are recognised as strengths in delivering our purpose. WCHG operates anonymous recruitment selection practices.  A disability confident employer WCHG will work to make reasonable adjustments where possible throughout its employment processes. 

Our purpose is to provide good quality homes and services to our customers and leaseholders and to play a leading role in creating safer, healthier communities. WCHG boasts an impressive development portfolio which aims to deliver on average 1,100 new homes over the next five years with £195m estimated investment, leaving a lasting legacy in our communities.