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Job summary

Working in the Business Planning and Performance team, this role plays an important part in delivering high quality performance reporting and financial insight across Homes England’s investment programmes. You will help ensure data is accurate, timely and supports effective decision making, tracking delivery against the Annual Business Plan

You will join a skilled and collaborative team within the Chief Operating Office, focused on improving reporting, data quality and consistency. The team works closely with Finance, Risk and programme teams to provide a clear and reliable view of performance.

The role includes both day to day delivery and supporting improvements to reporting and forecasting. You will help strengthen processes, improve data quality and contribute to ongoing work to make reporting more efficient and useful.

Job description

You are confident working with performance and financial data, with the ability to analyse information and identify key trends, risks and issues. Complex data can be translated into clear, practical insight that supports senior stakeholders in making informed decisions.

You have strong stakeholder skills enable you to build effective relationships across teams, offering clear guidance and constructive challenge where needed. A collaborative approach comes naturally, along with the ability to work across different functions to support shared outcomes.

You have a solid understanding of financial and performance reporting underpins your work, including experience of forecasting and managing data from multiple sources. Maintaining accuracy and consistency across data is a key strength.

You take pride in delivering high quality outputs and are motivated to improve how things are done. A focus on efficiency, clarity and continuous improvement helps strengthen both processes and the value of the team’s work.

Person specification

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial and performance data.
• Experience of producing clear, concise reporting and insights for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Understanding of financial management, budgeting processes and investment programme environments.
• Working knowledge of financial frameworks such as IFRS9 and loan portfolio reporting.
• Experience of forecasting cashflows, interest and financial performance within complex programmes.
• Proven ability to ensure data accuracy, integrity and completeness across multiple sources.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and provide constructive challenge.
• Experience of supporting audit, assurance or risk reporting activities.
• Ability to translate complex information into accessible insights to support informed decision making.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk