Finance Business Partner

Are you looking for a role where your financial expertise can genuinely change lives? Join us as a parttime Finance Business Partner, working 17.5 hours across Wednesday to Friday, and play a pivotal part in strengthening the services that support our communities. Your insight and leadership will help us deliver high quality housing services that make a real, lasting difference. If you want your work to matter — to truly shape the future for the people we serve — Plus Dane is where you belong.

Plus Dane provides homes and services to over 30,000 people across Merseyside and Cheshire. Our aim is to tackle social inequality by enabling individuals and communities to thrive and our customer team is at the heart of what we do.

Working with our customers really does change people’s lives and if you want to make a difference Plus Dane is the place to be!

We live by our values of working together, achieving for our customers, taking ownership, and having the opportunity to learn and grow.

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll provide proactive, insightful financial support to budget holders and operational teams, acting as a trusted adviser who translates complex financial information into clear, practical insight. With a strong focus on Rent and Service Charges, you’ll ensure accurate budgeting, forecasting, compliance, and reporting that supports confident, evidence based decision making across the organisation.

• Produce and present monthly and quarterly management accounts, with clear Rent and Service Charge variance analysis and commentary.
• Lead the Service Charge cycle, including annual budget setting, quarterly forecasting, and compliant year‑end statements of account.
• Deliver focused financial insight to operational managers, particularly around rental income, service charge trends, and surplus/deficit positions.
• Complete rent and service charge annual budgeting, profiling, and consolidation, ensuring Rent and Service Charge assumptions are robust and transparent.
• Contribute to statutory accounts and regulatory returns.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance, Housing, Leasehold teams, and Compliance.

• Advanced Excel capability (complex formulas, modelling, data manipulation).
• Proven experience in Housing/Social Landlord Rent & Service Charge accounting.
• Strong understanding of service charge regulations and compliance requirements.
• Experience producing service charge statements of account.
• Knowledge of surplus/deficit mechanisms and reporting.
• Ability to deliver service charge budgets and quarterly reforecasts.
• Skilled in delivering monthly/quarterly rental income and service charge variance reports with clear, actionable commentary.
• Confident Business Partnering, able to translate financials for non‑finance colleagues with clarity and confidence.

• Understanding of Replacement & Sinking Funds.
• Experience using CX, Q&A, or similar housing/finance systems.
• Knowledge of rent review processes.
• Business partnering experience with Leasehold, Shareholder and Compliance departments.

This is a permanent part time role working 17.5 hours per week (Wednesday, Thursday & Friday). The main base for your role will be the Atlantic Pavilion office at Albert Dock in Liverpool, with travel to other sites as required.

You’ll be generously rewarded with a competitive salary and a great benefits package, including 35 days’ annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays. This includes a 3-day Christmas closedown between Christmas and New Year and you have the option to buy up to 5 extra days annually.

You’ll also benefit from a company pension scheme where we contribute 9%, and colleagues can contribute anything from 3% upwards. We’re committed to our people’s wellbeing supported by an excellent management team, wellbeing champions, and mental health first aiders.

We actively encourage personal development, with plenty of opportunities to progress your career and access ongoing training, including formal qualifications.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.

If you need any adjustments to apply or attend an interview, please let us know.

Would you like to speak to a member of our team? Just submit your details and we will be in touch shortly.

15/03/2026

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This is your chance to apply your financial expertise in a role that genuinely helps shape communities and improve lives. We’d love to hear from you. APPLY HERE