Finance Business Partner

DBS Level: Basic

Hybrid / Ealing

35hpw across Mon-Fri

About A2Dominion

We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Role Overview

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll support business leaders with data-driven insight, financial analysis and decision support, helping to improve performance and deliver better outcomes.

Joining a newly formed Finance Business Partnering function, you'll combine business partnering with data analytics and automation, using tools such as Power BI and AI-enabled solutions to transform reporting, improve decision-making and help shape a modern, technology-enabled finance function.

Key Responsibilities:

* Partner with managers and senior stakeholders to provide financial insight, challenge and decision support.

* Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports and data solutions that drive business performance.

* Identify and deliver automation opportunities to improve reporting, efficiency and data quality.

* Analyse financial and operational data, translating complex information into clear, actionable insights.

* Support budgeting, forecasting, business planning and performance management activities.

* Contribute to business cases, investment appraisals and value-for-money initiatives through robust analysis and modelling.

* Build strong relationships across the organisation, helping stakeholders understand and use data effectively.

* Play a key role in shaping a modern, technology-enabled Finance Business Partnering function through continuous improvement, automation and AI-enabled ways of working.

More about you:

* Previous experience in a finance, FP&A, business intelligence, data analytics or similar analytical role, with responsibility for analysing data and presenting insights or recommendations to support business decision-making.

* Either a qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) or a relevant degree or professional qualification in data, analytics, information systems, engineering, mathematics or a comparable technical discipline. Equivalent demonstrable experience will also be considered.

* Advanced Power BI skills, including dashboard development, data modelling and reporting.

* Strong Excel skills, with experience working with large and complex datasets.

* Experience improving, automating or redesigning reporting and business processes.

* Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex data into meaningful business insight.

* Experience presenting data and recommendations to stakeholders, including non-technical audiences.

* Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively.

* A curious, proactive and solution-focused approach, with a passion for continuous improvement.

* Experience using tools such as Power Query, Power Automate, AI tools (e.g. Copilot), SQL, Python or Dynamics 365 would be advantageous.

* Experience working through transformation, change or within a newly formed function would be beneficial.

Desirable:

* Fully qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA.

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of the role, including key responsibilities and requirements.

Why A2Dominion?
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
* 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays)
* Up to 8% contributory pension
* In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

Diversity & Inclusion
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team

We know some people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If that’s you, we encourage you to apply if your skills and experience align – please get in touch with us to talk it through. At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.

We reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate