Job reference
REQ1002
Date posted
09/09/2025
Application closing date
29/09/2025
Location
Salary
Annual Starting Salary of £38,220
Package
Contractual hours
36
Basis
Full time
Job description
About the role
We are looking for a finance professional to join our Finance & Performance team as a Finance Partner (Operational). In this role, you'll work closely with Directors and Service Managers, providing insight, challenge, and support to help Salix Homes achieve its ambitions.
You will play a key part in shaping budgets, driving value for money, and making sure financial decisions are clear and meaningful to both finance and non-finance colleagues. Working alongside our Finance Manager (Operational), you'll also help build financial sustainability across the organisation.
If you're a part or fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, ACA) or experienced in partnering senior leaders with strong relationship building skills this could be your next big step.
The role - What I will be doing?
* Partnering and building effective relationships with the property department to help understand what is driving their activity. This will effectively be the repairs and maintenance teams as well as property compliance and investment capital works.
* Working with the Finance Manager to deliver high quality monthly management accounts.
* Providing commentary and variance analysis to inform decision making for operational budget holder holders, managers and directors.
* Supporting budget holders to develop robust budgets.
* Assisting Budget Holders with scenario planning, and financial modelling.
What we're looking for
* A finance professional who is driven to improve services and self-motivated.
* A part qualified accountant (AAT, ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA) with experience of writing commentary explaining key variances.
* An effective communicator who can provide financial advice and guidance at all levels.
* Strong excel skills – VLOOKUP's, Sumifs, Pivot Tables
What we offer as a company
* Annual Starting Salary of £38,220 up to £39,862
* Up to 34 day's holiday + bank holidays
* Flexible Working and Family friendly policies
* Generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
* Life Assurance worth 3 x annual salary
* Health Cash Plan which also provides a range of discounts including discounted gym membership
* An inclusive and positive colleague culture - Investors in People Gold accredited organisation.
* Advocate of the Greater Manchester Employment Charter
About Our Company
At Salix Homes, we're passionate about creating a brighter future for our customers, our communities, and our people. Since becoming a stand-alone housing association in 2015, we've invested significantly in our homes and services. This year, 2025, marks a significant milestone for us as we celebrate our 10-year anniversary. Over the past decade, we've grown, evolved, and made a lasting impact in Salford.
We've worked hard to ensure all our properties are safe, modern, desirable, and energy efficient, continually investing in our customers, their homes and communities through an ambitious and ongoing programme of improvement work.
We're also incredibly proud to be one of the first housing associations in the country to achieve a C1 grading under the new Consumer Standards a testament to the quality of the homes we provide and the services we deliver.
If you share our vision of driving positive change, this is your opportunity to be part of something meaningful.
Salix Homes are proud to have been awarded membership to the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter, and we will constantly strive to improve working conditions for our colleagues.
Salix Homes is an Equal Opportunities Employer and opposes all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination. Our customers come from all walks of life, and so should we. As we're interested in expanding our workforce diversity, we welcome all applications.
We're proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and will also invite to interview any disabled candidates who demonstrate the minimum standards for the role.
We want everyone to be able to perform to their best throughout the recruitment process so please let us know if you have any concerns or need any assistance or adjustments at any stage.
Closing Date: 29th September 2025