Summary

Finance Project Executive

Contract: 12 month Fixed Term Contact

Location: Bruce Kenrick House, 2 Killick Street, London N1 9FL

Salary: £45,013 - £50,014 per annum for 35 hours per week

Job introduction

Are you a highly organised finance professional who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact projects? This is an exciting opportunity to join a major strategic programme and play a central role in delivering complex finance due diligence activity.

As Finance Project Executive, you'll sit at the heart of a high-profile project, working with senior stakeholders, specialist advisors, and cross-functional teams. You'll gain valuable exposure to commercial transactions, financial reporting, and project delivery within a purpose-driven organisation that reinvests its success into providing affordable homes across London.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity, building strong working relationships, and making a tangible difference through their work.

What you'll do

As a Finance Project Executive, you will play a key role in supporting the successful execution of finance due diligence activities for the Folio Project. Working as part of the Folio Project Team, you will coordinate tasks, manage timelines, and ensure effective communication between internal teams and external stakeholders.

You will act as a central point of contact for financial due diligence enquiries, helping to ensure that complex, multi-disciplinary processes run smoothly, efficiently, and on time. Your work will directly support informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and the overall success of the project.

How you'll do it

• Coordinate and track finance due diligence activity across multiple workstreams, ensuring deliverables are clearly defined, progressed, and completed to agreed timelines.
• Manage due diligence project plans and task trackers, proactively flagging potential risks, issues, or delays to project leads.
• Work closely with colleagues across Finance, Legal, Operations, and external advisors to coordinate information requests and ensure seamless collaboration.
• Prepare ad-hoc financial and operational reports for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
• Maintain effective communication with a wide range of stakeholders, supporting smooth information flow and prompt resolution of queries.
• Ensure confidentiality, data integrity, and compliance protocols are adhered to throughout the due diligence process.
• Contribute flexibly to other project-related activities as required, supporting the overall delivery of project objectives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central coordination point for finance due diligence enquiries and documentation.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor project timelines, trackers, and reporting tools.
• Coordinate deliverables across internal teams and external advisors, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Support the preparation and review of financial information, analysis, and reports.
• Maintain clear audit trails and ensure adherence to confidentiality and compliance standards.
• Identify and escalate risks, issues, or dependencies that may impact project delivery.
• Support effective stakeholder engagement across the life of the project.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, talented, and forward-thinking individuals.

Essential:

• Strong understanding of financial reporting and financial statement analysis.
• Experience supporting or coordinating due diligence activities, particularly on the disposal side.
• Experience working within the Private Rented Sector (PRS) or a comparable commercial or property-focused environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of attention to detail and ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Excel and confidence working with financial data.
• Commitment to ethical principles, including integrity, confidentiality, and professional behaviour.

Desirable:

• A recognised project management qualification or certification.
• Experience working within the financial reporting environment and industry standards

Behaviours for success:

You will live our values and bring them to life through your work:

• Compassionate - putting people and residents at the heart of decisions.
• Progressive - striving for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Dependable - consistently delivering high-quality, reliable outcomes.
• Inclusive - valuing diversity and collaboration across all teams.
• Empowered - enabling others to achieve their best.

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning and development options to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts across hundreds of retailers, gyms, restaurants, and entertainment venues
• Interest-free loans (season ticket, tenancy deposit, and training loans)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance - 4x annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 01 February 2026.  

Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment  

Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview  

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .  

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.