Regional Finance Partner - Central Services

Regional Finance Partner - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hybrid– home working with travel to our office in Bradford

£34k - £38k, dependent on experience

We’re looking for a talented Regional Finance Partner to join our Finance team at Anchor. In this key role, you’ll be a trusted partner to our Housing Operations teams, delivering accurate financial management accounts, budgets, and forecasts to drive performance and support our mission. Leading a small team of Assistant Accountants, you’ll foster a collaborative and proactive environment, ensuring timely and insightful financial information empowers sound decision-making.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape Anchor’s financial strategy, support our housing services, and contribute to our commitment to excellence for our residents and communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce accurate and timely monthly management accounts, budgets, and forecasts, providing insightful commentary to support Anchor’s Housing Operations and stakeholders.
• Lead the monthly forecasting process for income, expenditure, and balance sheet accounts, ensuring clear communication of financial impacts.
• Deliver management information and KPIs to empower Housing Operations Service Leads to make informed decisions and drive performance.
• Oversee monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring balances are maintained within agreed levels and risks are proactively managed.
• Lead finance-related projects and system developments to enhance Housing Operations reporting and efficiency.
• Manage and mentor a team of Assistant Accountants, ensuring SLAs are met and fostering engagement and professional growth.
• Continuously improve financial processes and systems to ensure compliance and alignment with Anchor’s high standards.

What We’re Looking For

• Qualifications: ACCA, CIMA, CCAB, or equivalent (or actively studying towards).
• Experience: Proven expertise in producing period-end accounts, management information, KPI reports, variance analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. Familiarity with diverse accounting and reporting systems is essential.
• Knowledge: Strong grasp of management accounting, financial control, and sector regulations. Excellent IT skills, including proficiency with accounting systems and management information tools.
• Skills: Exceptional communication, analytical, and presentation skills. Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels and effectively lead a small team.
• Behaviors: A customer-focused, proactive mindset with a passion for Anchor’s mission. Strong leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to embrace change and navigate ambiguity to drive continuous improvement.

Why Join Anchor?

• Make a Difference: Your work will directly support Anchor’s mission to enhance the lives of older people through quality housing and care.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive Finance team where your ideas and contributions are valued.
• Growth Opportunities: Lead and develop a team while advancing your own career in a dynamic, purpose-driven organization.
• Impactful Role: Play a key part in shaping Anchor’s financial strategy and delivering excellence for our residents and communities.

At Anchor, we’re dedicated to enriching the lives of older people by providing high-quality housing, care, and support services across England. As the country’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for those in later life, we’re driven by our mission to help people live their best lives with independence, dignity, and choice. Join us and be part of a compassionate, forward-thinking organization where your work makes a real difference.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.