Job Title: Finance Manager – Housing & Maintenance

Location: Remote (With occasional travel to Chesterfield)

Salary: £45'000 Per Annum

Who We Are

Our values reflect us all and they’re at the heart of everything we do. They set out our culture, the way we behave and the way we do things. Our colleagues are passionate, kind, and resilient, and they go the extra mile for the people we support and each other. We have this expectation of all our colleagues.

We're very proud to be recognised as one of the best organisations to work in by ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024’.

Role Overview

The Finance Manager will report to the Commercial Finance Lead, working closely with the Housing Partnerships and Operations Manager. This role specializes in all aspects of finance related to Ivolve’s relationships with landlords, registered providers, housing associations, and the people we support who live in our supported living services. This is a group-wide role with a remit of identifying opportunities (e.g., areas of potential cost recovery) and working to recover funds and improve processes to prevent future value leakage.

Your Responsibilities

• Build relationships both internally with regional finance teams and externally with peers at registered providers and other relevant businesses.
• Liaise with key housing partners on behalf of the group, coordinating and consolidating information from regional teams to form a total picture.
• Review and set cost frameworks for service charges, ensuring cost recovery.
• Critically assess P&Ls of supported living properties to identify where costs are being incurred that are not the responsibility of Ivolve and work to address these.
• Contribute to annual budget and forecasts with the latest information on service charge income.
• Undertake project work, including the potential setup of a new entity to manage maintenance costs, which would include monthly management accounting and reporting.

The Main Skills and Experience for This Role

Essential

• Accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent).
• Proficiency in financial systems and MS Excel.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience in managing and influencing stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with both finance and non-finance teams.
• Proven ability to investigate issues and embed process changes to address them.

Desirable

• Experience of working with or for Housing Associations and/or Registered Providers.
• Experience of using Sage 50/200 and Oracle NetSuite.

How we will support you

We go beyond expectations for our colleagues as well as the people we support. Our reward package includes much more than pay, 5.6 weeks annual leave, flexible working hours and pension. And there is a £300 refer a friend scheme too.

Industry-leading recognition

• Colleague Lotto – giving everyone the opportunity to win great cash prizes.
• Prize winning Scratchcards aligned with values in action!
• We recognise our Colleagues who go above and beyond – our ‘Heroes’ are nominated by colleagues for quarterly and annual awards.
• Loyalty Scheme recognising colleagues at work anniversaries.

Social Wellbeing

• Award-winning App for news and info.
• Internal social media.
• Team communities.

 Financial Wellbeing

• Discounts include high street, supermarkets, flash sales, gym memberships and more.
• Blue Light discount programme, funded by us.
• Salary Finance scheme for lower cost loans and to save for special occasions or rainy days.
• Government mileage rates if you need to travel.

Emotional Wellbeing

• Free wellbeing App.
• Practical advice covering things like consumer rights, anxiety, childcare and more.

 Training and development to reach your potential

• Learning journey that grows with you to reach care worker standards.
• Specialist skills training including Autism, Dementia and Mental Health.
• Career pathways that include flexible apprenticeships and nationally recognised qualifications.
• Cover the cost of relevant professional memberships.

5 more reasons to work with Ivolve.

1.     Our people are pretty fabulous. We take pride and pleasure in helping others to flourish.

2.     There’s a great energy across the business and a strong sense of teamwork.

3.     Very few jobs have such an impact on people’s lives – we bring joy to people every day.

4.     We have a proud history, we’re a big organisation of over 4'000 colleagues supporting over 1,300 people.

5.     We build and nourish relationships with the people we support.

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