PMO - Finance Lead

Closing Date: 12th October 2026

Interviews will take place week commencing 19th October 2026

2 year Fixed Term Contract/Secondment

Working within our Help to Buy Transformation & Re procurement Programme, the PMO Finance Lead will play a key role in delivering a complex, multi year public sector change programme.

You will join a highly skilled, collaborative programme team tasked with reshaping a nationally significant service at a critical point in its lifecycle. Our focus is on strengthening data integrity, reducing operational and financial risk, improving customer experience, and ensuring long term service portability while protecting public funds.

This is a programme that values disciplined delivery and thoughtful decision making. Our Programme Director champions evidence based choices and a diversity of perspectives, recognising that the best outcomes come from constructive challenge and collective problem solving.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future operating model of one of the UK's most high profile home ownership public services. You will work closely with colleagues across a range of specialisms to design and deliver an integrated, coherent and defensible service model. One that can stand up to scrutiny from governance forums, audit and value for money assessments while delivering long term benefits for the Agency and our customers.

You will be an experienced finance professional with a strong record of leading financial management within large-scale transformation programmes, ideally in the public sector. You will bring extensive knowledge of budgeting, cost allocation, forecasting and financial reporting, together with the confidence to challenge assumptions, identify financial risks and opportunities, and turn complex information into clear, practical insight for senior leaders.

You will be comfortable taking ownership of programme financial processes, including cost monitoring, purchase orders, accruals, contractor estimates and financial modelling. An advanced level of Excel proficiency and experience of developing robust business cases will help you provide accurate analysis and support evidence-based decisions. You will also understand the governance and reporting requirements that apply to public sector finance.

A credible and collaborative communicator, you will build trusted relationships across the Programme Management Office, delivery teams, boards and senior leadership. You will be able to present complex financial matters clearly, provide constructive challenge and align financial performance with wider programme priorities and measures.

You will hold, or be working towards, a CCAB or equivalent professional finance qualification. Knowledge of portfolio, programme and project management principles, recognised delivery methodologies and government standards would also be valuable, as would an understanding of digital, data and service-design environments.

Homes England:
The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people's lives. As the government's housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more…