Description
Senior Development Finance Analyst
- Interim Contract – 6 months initially
- Manchester (3 days office / 2 days home – flexible)
- £39.23 per hour (Umbrella)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Development Finance Analyst to join a leading G15 Housing Association on an interim basis. The G15 represents London’s largest housing associations, collectively providing homes for over 1 million people and playing a vital role in delivering high-quality, affordable housing across the UK.
This role will play a key part in supporting the organisation’s development programme, partnering closely with Development and Finance teams to provide robust financial insight across a varied portfolio of schemes including private sale and affordable housing.
Housing association experience is highly desirable, alongside strong exposure to property development finance within the construction or housebuilding sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as finance business partner to the Development function, supporting decision making across a portfolio of development schemes
- Provide financial modelling, appraisal analysis and commercial insight on new acquisitions and development opportunities
- Lead on delivering accurate and timely management reporting for development schemes
- Support investment appraisals and conduct financial due diligence on new opportunities
- Identify and assess financial and commercial risks, applying scenario and sensitivity analysis
- Attend and contribute to scheme progress meetings as the lead finance representative
- Ensure governance, financial controls and regulatory requirements are applied across the development programme
- Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across Development, Land, Delivery, Sales and Finance teams
- Provide ad hoc analysis and support to senior stakeholders where required
(Responsibilities aligned to the official role profile)
Candidate Requirements
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) preferred
- Strong experience in property development finance, ideally within housing association, construction or housebuilding environments
- Proven expertise in investment appraisal modelling for mixed tenure schemes
- Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability
- Understanding of financial and commercial risks within residential development
- Experience delivering high quality management reporting to senior stakeholders
- Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Why apply?
- Opportunity to join a highly respected G15 organisation delivering large-scale housing developments
- Flexible hybrid working arrangement
- Competitive interim day rate
- Exposure to complex and high-value development schemes
- Chance to make an immediate impact within a collaborative development finance team