FP&A Analyst

The Vacancy

Wates Group is seeking a Finance Analyst (FP&A) to join our Financial Planning and Analysis team within Wates Residential. As a developer-contractor, Wates Residential invests, develops, builds, and sells quality affordable homes through contracting and partnerships with Local Authorities, Housing Associations, and public bodies such as Homes England.

The Finance Analyst will support the FP&A Manager in the provision of financial modelling services within Wates Residential, liaising with internal stakeholders to source data, updating inputs to the models, reviewing financials, and presenting output.

The financial models are created at the bid stage and are consistently maintained and updated throughout construction, through to completion and then through the sales phase until the final units are sold and profits distributed.

As our Finance Analyst (FP&A), you will:

• Own & update the viability models of development projects in conjunction with the FP&A Manager and multiple stakeholders across Finance, Development, Operations and Commercial, with a view to improving models where necessary.
• Collate information from project teams to routinely update the viability models for ongoing projects. Monitor and track actual and forecast Joint Venture performance.
• Calculate and provide financial analysis internally and for clients/customers, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Monitoring and tracking comparative performance of projects and identifying opportunities for efficiency.
• Support to wider WR finance team as required during year end close and during quarterly reforecasts.

What we are looking for:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, ICAS) with experience in financial modelling
• Strong IT skills, especially Excel

What we offer:

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including Private Medical Insurance, Pension with 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more
• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the Wates Group)
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.