Finance Director

At ForHousing we own around 18,500 homes across the North West. Everything we do aims to positively impact the lives of our social housing tenants and deliver on what matters to them and their communities. By listening to tenants and keeping them at the heart of all we do, we provide safe, well maintained homes and deliver customer focused, equitable and efficient services, as well as a great place to work for colleagues. We always want to do better and through our tenant focused, inclusive and agile culture, ForHousing is a place where everyone can thrive and be themselves.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Finance and responsible for a team of just over forty, the role will:

• Provide strategic insight to inform decision-making and optimise financial performance.
• Lead and inspire teams fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Drive transformation through our organisation-wide finance systems, processes, and culture.
• Ensure robust financial governance is in place to effectively manage risk and compliance.
• Ensure business resilience in a changing economic and regulatory environment, ensuring ForHousing is prepared for the future.

Our new Finance Director will take a lead in financial planning, forecasting and budgeting, deliver efficiency across our financial and procurement operations, overseeing compliance with regulatory and statutory financial requirements.

We are looking for a qualified accountant (CCAB or CIMA) with a track record of wide-ranging financial leadership from a private, non-profit or public sector environment. Experience of social housing is desirable but not essential, although we are looking for a strategic and analytical finance professional who will help us deliver our vision and mission, and help to embed our values of Respect, Trust, Openness and Passion.

We pride ourselves on offering colleagues a place to thrive, creating an inclusive culture. We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented at decision-making levels in our sector, including women, people from ethnic minorities within the UK, disabled people, younger people and people with personal experience of living in social housing.

The closing date is 9am Monday 12 May 2025.

Closing Date: 9am on Monday 12 May 2025

Longlist Meeting: Mid-May 2025

Preliminary Interviews: to be completed by 30 May 2025

Shortlist Meeting: Early June 2025

Final Interviews: Mid-June 2025

• Please submit your CV along with a Supporting Statement addressing the person specification criteria, evidencing how you meet the criteria.
• Detail any employment or education gaps.
• Be ready to provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees; one should be your current or most recent employer. Referees will be contacted for those proceeding to final stages. We will always gain your permission before we contact referees.
• Let us know any difficulty you may have with the indicative timetable.
• Check that your contact details are correct before you submit.

Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an automated email confirmation. If you do not receive, please email contactus@gatenbysanderson.com