Finance Business Partner – Development
Location: Oldham (Hybrid – 37 hours per week)
Reporting to: Treasury and Planning Manager
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £56,910
Improving lives in Oldham
At First Choice Homes Oldham, we are committed to improving lives by providing quality homes and strong communities. We are now looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner – Development to play a key role in delivering our ambitious development programme and supporting our long-term financial sustainability.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified finance professional who enjoys working closely with stakeholders, providing insight and challenge, and making a real difference through high quality financial leadership.
The impact you’ll make
You will lead on financial business partnering for our development programme and be responsible for budget setting, forecasting, monitoring and reporting, ensuring strong financial control, transparency and value for money.
Working closely with budget holders and the Leadership Team, you will provide timely, insightful financial advice to support informed decision making and the successful delivery of new development schemes. You will also contribute to treasury management activity, statutory and regulatory reporting, and the ongoing improvement of financial systems and processes.
You will line manage one Management Accountant and play an important role in developing a high performing, engaged finance team.
You will be:
• Leading budgets, forecasts and management accounts for the Development programme
• Providing trusted finance business partnering and professional challenge to senior stakeholders
• Supporting financial appraisal, accounting and reporting for new development schemes
• Producing and monitoring cash flow forecasts and supporting treasury and covenant compliance
• Ensuring compliance with Housing SORP, regulatory and statutory requirements
• Overseeing capital accounting, grants, VAT and taxation within development activity
Please see full Job description at the bottom of this page
Our Ideal Candidate:
Our ideal candidate is a qualified finance professional who enjoys working in partnership with others and using financial insight to shape better decisions.
You will be confident operating in a business partnering role, able to build strong, trusted relationships with non-finance colleagues and provide constructive challenge when needed.
• CCAB qualified accountant
• Strong experience in financial and management accounting
• Proven financial business partnering experience in a regulated environment
• Budget setting, forecasting and variance analysis expertise
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex financial information clearly
• Strong Excel and financial systems skills
• Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Safety, Wellbeing and Safeguarding
Desirable
• Experience within housing, development or social housing
• Knowledge of Housing SORP, Homes England and Regulator of Social Housing reporting
• Experience of treasury management and covenant monitoring
• VAT and taxation experience within a housing or development context
Why Join FCHO?
First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) is a housing association providing safe, affordable, and high-quality homes across Oldham and the surrounding areas. We own and manage over 11,500 properties and have the highest regulatory (G1/V1) Governance rating. Every day, we’re proud to make a real difference in our communities.
Our work is guided by our Big Plan, focused on providing homes we’re proud of, supporting people to thrive, and creating a great place to work. We care deeply about our customers, our colleagues, and our communities and we’re committed to delivering services we can be proud of while improving the lives of people across Oldham.
We need great people to work with us - it’s an exciting time to join as we work towards out big ambitions, supporting the growth and prosperity of our local region.
What’s In It for You?
We offer a fantastic range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, work-life balance and career development:
* A salary of £ £56,910 per annum
* A 37-hour working week with hybrid working options. possibility of overtime hours.
* 30 days’ annual leave and 8 bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time colleagues)
* Option to purchase additional annual leave
* Defined contribution pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution and salary exchange option
* Death in service benefit
* Healthcare cash plan covering dental, optical, and physiotherapy treatments
* Private health insurance
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering 24-hour confidential support
* Doctorline – 24/7 worldwide GP access for you and your family
* Access to our colleague benefits platform, offering discounts on major retailers and wellbeing tools
* Discounted gym membership
* Professional subscriptions paid (where essential for the role)
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and sick pay
* Access to our on-site wellbeing room and on-site café
* Long Service awards
Interested?
If you meet the criteria for the role, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your application before 04/02/2026
We are committed to building an organisation that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills & are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. As an equal opportunities employer, FCHO is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
We care that you have a great experience with us at FCHO and if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience smoother, please let us know & we’ll do all we can.