Finance Business Partner (Development & Regen)
Job title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Hybrid / 113 Uxbridge Road, Ealing W5 5TL
Salary: Circa £82,300 per annum (depending on experience)
Working hours: 35hpw / Mon\-Fri
Contract: Permanent
DBS Level: Basic
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.
About the Role
As Finance Business Partner you will play a key role in supporting senior leaders to make well informed, financially sound and customer focused decisions. The role provides high quality insight, challenge and analysis that strengthens performance, improves value for money and supports long term financial sustainability.
Working collaboratively across the organisation, you will translate financial and operational information into meaningful intelligence, help shape strategic priorities, and build financial capability within directorates to drive better outcomes for customers and the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with operational and senior leaders to provide clear, relevant financial insight that supports robust, forward‑looking strategic decisions. Act as a trusted Finance partner, bringing a strong financial lens to operational priorities, trade‑offs and delivery models.
- Use financial and operational data to support and challenge decision‑making, helping managers understand costs, drivers, assumptions and risks while promoting a commercially aware, customer‑focused approach.
- Collaborate with FP\&A and business areas to connect operational performance, investment decisions and long‑term financial plans, ensuring a joined‑up view of financial sustainability.
- Strengthen budgeting, forecasting and financial planning capability through insight, challenge and analysis, ensuring plans are accurate, consistent and forward‑looking.
- Provide insight on budgets, forecasts and actuals to assess performance trends, highlight variances and identify risks, opportunities and actionable interventions.
- Support business cases, investment appraisals and options analysis, working with directorates and finance colleagues to inform strategic decisions.
- Embed a Value for Money culture through benchmarking and performance analysis, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, customer outcomes and social impact.
- Proactively generate meaningful financial and operational insights that support regulatory requirements, enhance customer experience and inform strategy.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation, AI and digital tools, supporting delivery of the Finance Improvement Plan and enhancing reporting, processes and systems.
- Contribute to a collaborative, high‑performing Finance function by sharing knowledge, promoting best practice and supporting continuous improvement.
- Fully qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA essential
- Strong relationship‑building and communication skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively at all levels, including senior leaders, while maintaining trusted and collaborative partnerships.
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial and non‑financial data to generate clear insights, assess performance and identify effective interventions.
- Experience supporting and advising non‑finance stakeholders, translating complex financial information into meaningful, actionable insight.
- Proven experience in a Finance Business Partnering or similar role, with a track record of independently driving insight, influencing decisions and delivering measurable business impact.
- Demonstrable experience of leading initiatives or improvements from concept through to implementation, with clear evidence of personal ownership and contribution.
- Strong finance foundations, including financial controls, performance management, budgeting, forecasting and Value for Money principles, with the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision and add value quickly.
- Sector experience in housing or a regulated environment is advantageous
- Knowledge of regulatory, financial and operational factors affecting housing associations, including VfM and financial viability metrics.
- Strong technical capability, including advanced Excel and experience using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance \& Operations, Power BI and Power Pivot.
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.
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 at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
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 Furness. Closing date for this role is 19 June 2026; we reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate.
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