Financial Planning Manager - London, United Kingdom - Optivo

Optivo

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Financial Planning Manager

£65,000-£75,000 pa + excellent benefits

Farringdon or Croydon
Are you passionate about financial planning? Are you interested in how big picture strategy and detailed numbers combine to shape a Housing Association's success? Are you methodical and proactive? Do you want to help solve the national housing crisis? Ifyes, we have the perfect role for you as our
Financial Planning Manager

Optivo is a growing organisation that is customer and colleague focussed. We are preparing for our forthcoming merger with Southern Housing Group. We are planning the merger to take place in the coming weeks creating a new 77,000 homes organisation.

As our Financial Planning Manager, your role will be to demonstrate our continuing financial viability through economic and business cycles with robust stress-testing and financial risk mitigation standby plans.

You will co-ordinate the scoping, construction,maintenance and monitoring of our long-term and medium-term financial plans and measure our financial risk capacity with reference to key financial indicators including internal golden rules, lender covenants and rating agency metrics.

You will also:

Prepare Groupwide Long-Term Financial Plan (LTFP) and related regulatory returns with guidance from senior colleagues; manage daytoday relationships with key stakeholders and projectmanage timely delivery of an accurate and auditable plan.
Review and update the plan as required from timetotime to cover changes in business or economic conditions, including planning assumptions, stresstesting scenario analyses, financial risk triggers and mitigations.
Engage with stakeholders to understand future operating cost drivers such as housing quality, building safety and decarbonisation and Treasury to understand borrowing needs. Read up on economic trends to inform our view on inflation and interest rates.

What you'll need

Professional qualification in accounting, treasury, banking or equivalent (such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CF, ACT, ACIB), or commitment to work towards one
Understanding of key long term financial planning approaches and principles
Knowledge of financial reporting, financial benchmarking, interpretation and analysis of financial statements and metrics is desirable
Experience of Lenders' key financial metrics and ratings agencies' credit assessment methodologies is beneficial
Experience of UK social housing or residential property development is desirable
Excellent Excel modelling skills and model discipline
Prior training to use financial planning software (Brixx) is highly desirable

What's in it for you

Pension
Life assurance
Healthcare cash plan
Eyecare & dental
Birthday leave
Retailers discounts
Cycle to work
Buy & sell annual leave
Season ticket loan
Inhouse academy & career development
Flexible working

**Inclusion and Diversity
**_At Optivo we work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion,experience and perspective of each individual. We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contributionto our One Team approach._