Senior Business Planning Manager

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The role

Senior Business Planning Manager - Full-time, Permanent position

Farringdon, London - hybrid working to be discussed at interview

£90,000-£94,000

About Us: Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers, we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

As the Senior Business Planning Manager, you will:

• Help manage the Business Planning Team and the compilation of the Financial Business plan
• Support the financial viability of MTVH providing input to ensure long-term liquidity and covenant compliance.
• Reporting into the Assistant Director of Business Planning and Development Finance (within Corporate Finance) to deputise for business planning matters when required
• Liaise with all financial business partners, the financial reporting and tax teams to ensure all elements of the business are understood and modelled correctly, enabling risks to be identified and mitigations to be discussed.

Main Responsibilities:

• Take the lead on updating the long term financial model (in BRIXX) for the entire group including subsidiaries and JV's, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
• Collaborate with business leaders and finance staff to gather inputs and represent the organisation fully in the financial model.
• Assist with Preparation the annual Board business plan paper and periodic updates, articulating risks, opportunities, and mitigations.
• Advise on the financial consequences of business decisions and help with the development of MTVH's corporate financial strategy.
• Manage the production of the annual financial return (FFR) to the Regulator, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Support senior management with the ability to advise on strategic decisions and options
• Assist in the Production of presentations, reports, updates for lenders, bondholders, and credit rating agencies.
• Support all areas of Finance not limited to Finance Directors, Treasury, Financial reporting and tax
• Support with the management of an experienced small team to ensure high performance and continuous improvement

Skills/Experience:

• Qualified accountant with significant experience in budgeting and business planning, ideally at a corporate level.
• Strong understanding of fixed asset accounting, management, and statutory accounting.
• Experienced financial modeller with the ability to evaluate high-value capital investment decisions.
• Knowledge of key financial drivers and risks in the social housing sector.
• Understanding of the financial and regulatory framework of the social housing sector.
• Proficient in business planning software, ideally Brixx.
• Advanced IT literacy in relevant software and systems.
• Commercially focused and experienced at working at a high level within an organisation
• Excellent communicator capable of presenting financial issues in a user-friendly manner.
• Affinity with the social housing/care sector.

Key dates: Initial interviews scheduled to take place from Thursday 27 February, in-person

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.