Job Ref: 215593189

Date: 2022-01-18 13:50:51

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The Vacancy

Do you have passion and drive for adding value to a business that has a strong social purpose to help people find a home?

It’s a great time to join Paradigm Housing, as we embark on the biggest digital transformation in our history. Play your part at Paradigm as we strive to improve the social and the environmental credentials of the properties we manage and develop.  

As our business a goes through this period of transformation, this role is vital to ensure that the Company maintains its strong long term financial credentials.

About the role

This is a new vacancy arising from an internal promotion.

Reporting into the Corporate Finance Manager, you will be responsible for assisting the team to update the Company’s 30 year’ business plan. Our team are responsible for preparing the long-term plan, from data collection and plan preparation to presenting the plan outputs.  

You will also be responsible for assisting the Development team, to review new business opportunities. You will ensure that all the inputs have been entered correctly, which means that the financial results of new opportunities are accurately presented.

The successful candidate will have

An ambition to be a CCAB qualified accountant.
Knowledge or experience on preparing a budget, with an idea on what internal and external factors could affect the budget.
Attention to detail to ensure that any new opportunities are appraised correctly.
Experience to translate complex data from multiple sources into a consolidated and understandable output.
Good IT knowledge of MS Excel and be willing to learn new systems

About you

We are looking for someone who can accurately manage various sources of data input, then consolidate this to prepare a business plan. You must be comfortable with presenting financial data and explaining outputs to non-finance colleagues.

Our ideal candidate has experience (or can demonstrate) the ability to challenge colleagues where required, to ensure that inputs are correct and reflect the actual business positions.  

You will have a can-do attitude and will be keen to learn about the social housing sector, including the terminology and systems used. Whilst an ideal candidate has experience within the social housing sector, we do have a comprehensive training package to provide the correct candidate with industry knowledge.

So not only is this a great opportunity to join a high performing team and Company, it is also a great time to join an ever changing and really interesting sector, the experience gained should be career enhancing and will provide a really good basis for a rewarding career in financial planning.

About us

We are a values’ driven, ambitious organisation. We’re Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment.

We offer a very generous package including the following:

Holidays – 25 days to start (this rises with service to a maximum of 30 days) plus 3 paid days between Xmas and new year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to conditions
Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
Annual Bonus potential
Professional Sponsorship Scheme (subject to conditions) and professional subscriptions paid
Family Friendly policies incl generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category!
Remote hybrid working (as per Government guidelines we are working remotely at time of publication) 
Up to 3 paid Volunteer days a year
Newly created modern offices collaborative offices, with free parking and charging electric vehicle charging points for vehicles
Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions)
Rewards platform
Opportunities for career advancement –
Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

We support flexible ways of working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in.

Further information

For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (url removed) and we will respond as soon as possible.

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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