Salary: £50,487 - £59,838 per annum

Job Location: Manchester - Deansgate (Hybrid)

Hours: 36 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Are you looking for a new, exciting challenge? Do you have experience working in property development finance?

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Analyst to join our Development Finance team in Manchester.

What will you be doing?

In a nutshell, you will be first point of contact for investment and finance related matters across all our Central and North schemes, for both private sale and affordable housing property development. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships between the Development and Finance Directorates.

Other key duties include:

• Leading on providing timely and accurate management reporting information for your scheme portfolio
• Acting as the principal finance representative at monthly scheme progress meetings and influence scheme outcomes
• Assessing the financial and commercial risks of investment proposals, applying sensitivity and scenario analysis, and identifying mitigating actions for risk management; and
• Pro-actively supporting the regional Head of Development Finance & Analysis in reviewing commercial investment appraisals for proposed acquisitions, conducting financial due diligence, advising the Development team on deal structures, and drafting investment papers

What are we looking for?

We're looking for a qualified Accountant (or equivalent level of experience) with a thorough understanding of the UK residential property market and excellent analytical skills.

You will come to us with prior experience in property development finance, ideally with experience of investment appraisal financial modelling for mixed tenure schemes. You will have excellent communication skills and should be confident dealing with multiple stakeholders, presenting financial information and influencing decisions.

Where will you work?

This role is based from our Manchester office and you will be required to work between the office and home in line with business needs. You should be able to commute to Manchester on a weekly basis.

What you can expect from us

As well as joining a supportive, hardworking and performance driven team of diverse people, here at Clarion we're dedicated to rewarding hard work and commitment and providing benefits that support you and your lifestyle. As standard we offer:

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
• Initial 25 Days annual leave (plus bank holiday), increasing to 30 days after 3 years' service.
• A flexible benefit scheme tailored to you, inclusive of dental insurance, restaurant card, cycle to work; we also give you 1% of your salary to spend on whichever approved benefit you like!
• Matched pension contributions of up to 7.5%
• Flexible and agile working for the majority of our employees.
• Company Bonus Scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Holiday trading scheme allowing you to buy and sell leave
• Free counselling and legal advice scheme for you and your family
• Interest free loans for season ticket and study leave

Our commitment to equality and diversity means that we are keen to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, including but not limited to enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave, and compassionate leave.

For further details on this vacancy please download the role profile Senior Development Finance Analyst.

Closing Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2022 at midnight.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Clarion Housing Group

Clarion Housing Group is the UK's largest provider of affordable housing. We are committed to playing our part in tackling the housing crisis, both as a social landlord and developer of new housing.

More than 350,000 people call a Clarion home their home. Our mission is to provide and maintain good quality housing for our residents and to build communities through high quality design and placemaking.

We are a social business, reinvesting our profits into building new homes and providing support and opportunities to our residents through Clarion Futures, our charitable foundation.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want Clarion to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Clarion an inclusive place to work.