Finance Business Partner

DBS Level: Basic Hybrid / Ealing About A2

Dominion 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 ashomesfor sale and shared ownership.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

As an employee of A2

Dominion, 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…