Homes England
Manager Strategic Manager
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Closing Date: 06/08/2026
Interviews will take place from week commencing 31st August
About the Role
The National Housing Bank (NHB) was launched in April 2026 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Homes England (HE). The NHB is a new financial organisation designed to unlock investment at scale and accelerate the delivery of more homes, stronger places and thriving communities across the country and represents one of the most significant new interventions in the housing sector in a generation.
The operating expenditure of the NHB is incurred at HE Group level and will be charged to the NHB via a monthly recharge. These operating costs include pay costs of staff working directly on NHB delivery in addition to the provision of a range of services to support NHB operations through Corporate and Enabling teams (e.g. Finance and HR).
The operational costs also include associated non-pay costs (e.g. travel, learning & development, professional fees, accommodation costs) which will be recharged using appropriate cost allocation methodologies to ensure costs are fairly and accurately charged.
The post holder will be responsible for managing the internal operating cost recharge between Homes England and the NHB, supporting budgeting, forecasting, and month end close by providing accurate, timely and transparent recharge data and resolving discrepancies, ensuring that costs are accurately captured and the NHB is being charged for the correct use of resources.
This post will be within the Strategic Finance & Business Partnering Team, aligned to the Strategic Finance (Resource) sub team and will be the main point of contact between the National Housing Bank and Finance colleagues in regard to the recharge. The postholder will need to combine technical knowledge, strategic insight, commercial acumen and an understanding of Home England’s operations.
Key Accountabilities
- Managing recharge process — Prepare, calculate, and post recharges, which includes conducting a quarterly detailed ‘true up’ reforecasting exercise and annual year-end review and finalisation.
- Data validation — Review source data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal financial controls.
- Reconciliation — Reconcile recharge accounts, investigate variances, and correct errors before close deadlines.
- Stakeholder support — Work with stakeholders to explain recharge methodologies, answer queries, and resolve disputes.
- Reporting — Produce recharge summaries, cost allocation reports, and analysis to support budgeting and forecasting.
- Process improvement — Identify inefficiencies in the recharge process and implement improvements to enhance accuracy and transparency
- Compliance — Ensure that there are robust controls in place to ensure that all recharges specific to the NHB for earmarked work are agreed and budget assigned. Support the yearly audit process.
- Systems — Maintain recharge templates and models used for allocations, including maintaining the Power BI reporting tool to produce recharge reporting to enable transparent reporting.
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About You
The success of the role requires a mix of commercial acumen, analytical skill, strategic thinking and the ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships.
You will be a qualified CCAB accountant(ACCA, ACA, CIPFA, CIMA), with strong organisational and time management skills and the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance colleagues.
You will have a problem-solving mindset and ability to work independently.
Advanced Excel skills essential to this role, in addition to a fluency with common data analytics tools, (Power BI desirable).
You will have excellent attention to detail with a focus on adding value, with enthusiasm and the ability to be proactive, ability to remain organised and motivated when working to tight deadlines.
The role requires that you have experience in finance operations, management accounting, or cost allocation roles with a strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and month end processes.
About Us
Who Are We?
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 resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
What We Offer
As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
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Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.
Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Homes England equality, diversity and inclusion reports - GOV.UK
You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.
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