Interim Senior Finance Analyst – HRA
Location: London, hybrid 2 days on site
Length: 3 months (Possibility of extension)
IR35 Status: Inside
The role supports the Head of Finance in developing the overall sound financial framework that helps to ensure viable, value for money and timely investment in housing and estates. It contributes to the overall HRA financial strategy and a long term stability of the HRA Business Plan by ensuring the appropriate balance between investment in new housing, existing stock and services.
Key Responsibilities of the Interim Senior Finance Analyst:
- Practical experience of preparing the HRA annual statement of accounts and notes from start to finish and dealing with subsequent audit queries
- Practical experience of annual housing rent setting and tenants’ service charge reviews
- Knowledge of maintaining financial models for rent setting, service charge reviews and the HRA Business Plan
- Experience of supporting the preparation of HRA budgets for the council’s annual Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) review
- Experience of submitting financial data for the annual core benchmarking exercise to enable comparison with other housing bodies
- A line management responsibility for two Finance Analysts and supporting Graduate Trainees that work on rotational basis.
- Ensuring budget monitoring position is understood and mitigating corrective action taken where an overspend is projected.
- Participating and networking with external parties and partners nationally
Key Skills of the Interim Senior Finance Analyst:
- Provide robust and clear financial advice to senior stakeholders, presenting information on all financial matters relating to the HRA to committees and forums as required
- Assisting in the submission of and understanding of various statutory and benchmarking returns, as well as bidding documentation
- Overseeing budget modelling to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and other factors determining resource requirements
- Offering innovative financial solutions to the delivery of projects in a constrained budgetary context, including meeting annual efficiency targets
- Reviewing the viability and value for money of various development schemes ensuring they comply with the overall financial framework for the HRA and grant conditions include RTB and GLA funding criteria
- Reviewing proposals for estate regeneration schemes to maximise viability including undertaking scenario modelling on tenure mixes and phasing;
Qualifications:
- Member of an appropriate professional body by examination e.g. CIPFA, or other CCAB body; plus evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
To apply for this role or to find out about other jobs, please contact Joseph Dalton on the London Local Government Recruitment team on 020 7557 7667 or send your CV to localgov@venngroup.com