DO YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITHIN SOCIAL HOUSING OR REAL ESTATE?

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Investment and Development Finance team as Strategic Finance Business Partner – Regeneration. Working in partnership with the Regeneration and Major Projects Director and senior management team in Investment & Development, you’ll formulate the regeneration finance agenda, contributing to strategic decision making, performance management and risk mitigation planning.
With offices in Basingstoke and Wembley, we can be flexible on your base location however there will be regular time required in Basingstoke. You’ll share your time between the office and home, as well as some travel being required between our offices.
It’s a really exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

You’ll be a fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with significant experience providing commercial financial advice, strategic decision support, and financial appraisal modelling within the wider the Real Estate or Social Housing sectors. You’ll also have:

• An excellent track record in business partnering, performance reporting, financial planning and stakeholder management
• Strong, clear working knowledge of processes and controls surrounding budgeting, forecasting and management reporting preparation, including detailed report writing and analysis
• An understanding of regeneration strategies, property investment and divestment activity, and associated risks and mitigation plans
• High commercial and financial acumen with strong analysis skills and excel modelling experience
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and influence at senior level
• Knowledge of PowerBI would be advantageous

Reporting into the Head of Finance – Strategic Asset Management, you’ll lead commercial finance decision support and performance management for regeneration activity, managing the financial performance of c. £30-100m of capex per annum and an overall £400m 10-year pipeline.

You’ll provide timely, accurate and comprehensive internal financial information, commercial financial advice, scheme appraisals and financial analysis to managers and senior executive team in relation to regeneration activity. Main responsibilities include:

• Providing commercial and financial insight into the regeneration schemes and programmes, as well as related activities such as Retrofit and S106/Land-Led Developments, considering overall portfolio risk and impact, contingency planning and alignment with investment strategy
• Communicating complex technical accounting and tax information and guidance, working collaboratively with wider finance technical experts in tax, structuring and accounting to interpret financial and tax impacts and give advice on the optimum approach to regeneration proposals
• Providing concise insight briefings to senior managers, focusing on deal structure, tax implications, key risks and mitigations, and return measures such as residual land value, profit margins, peak debt, ROCE, IRR, and NPV
• Running sensitivity and scenario analysis on projects and assessing the viability of potential projects, understanding risks and optimising performance
• Leading financial decision support for new project submissions, challenging assumptions, identifying risks and any areas for outperformance
• Driving financial performance and managing risk by business partnering with the regeneration team and delivering insightful forward looking Management reporting
• Delivering timely, clear and accurate cash flow forecasts to inform Treasury planning
• Owning the overall investment plan, modelling for regeneration and assessing performance against the investment strategy, working with the group business planning team to provide baseline models, data and assumptions for regeneration plans