Head of FP&A (12 month FTC), Ealing

This range is provided by Stanton House. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

This specialist in placing qualified finance & accounting professionals into interim and contract roles. This is a newly created leadership role within a growing and forward-looking housing association. The Head of FP&A will be responsible for establishing and leading a high-performing Financial Planning & Analysis function that supports strategic decision-making, strengthens financial performance, and provides clear insight to executive leaders and operational teams.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced FP&A professional to build processes, frameworks, and capability from the ground up—playing a critical role in shaping the financial strategy of the organisation.

• Establish and develop a best-practice FP&A function, introducing robust frameworks, systems, and processes.
• Build and mentor a small FP&A team as the function grows over time.
• Create a culture of high-quality analysis, strong business partnering, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the annual budgeting cycle, working closely with operational and corporate teams.
• Develop rolling forecasts and multi-year financial plans, aligned to strategic and regulatory priorities.
• Introduce improved forecasting methodologies and modelling tools to enhance accuracy and transparency.
• Develop and maintain complex financial models to support business cases, development projects, investment decisions, and scenario planning.
• Provide insightful analysis of performance, risk, and opportunities across the organisation.
• Produce monthly management information and KPI reporting to support informed decision-making at executive and board level.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, operational managers, and budget holders.
• Translate financial data into meaningful insight for non-financial stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions, support decision-making, and drive accountability for financial performance.
• Partner with development, operations, housing management, and assets teams to support programme delivery and investment planning.
• Review current financial processes and introduce improvements to drive efficiency, accuracy, and clarity.
• Support the implementation or optimisation of finance systems, planning tools, and reporting platforms.
• Ensure consistent data quality and alignment of financial information across the organisation.

• Fully qualified accountant (CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Significant FP&A or commercial finance experience, ideally with exposure to complex, multi-site or asset-heavy environments.
• Strong financial modelling capability and advanced Excel/analytics skills.
• Proven ability to business partner with senior stakeholders, influencing at executive level.
• Experience leading budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Ability to build a function from scratch or transform an existing FP&A capability.
• Prior experience in housing, property, real estate, infrastructure, or another regulated sector.
• Familiarity with long-term investment modelling or development appraisals.
• Experience with financial planning systems (e.g., Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Power BI, or similar).
• Understanding of social housing regulatory and reporting frameworks.

• 12 month FTC
• Up to 90k salary depending on experience