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Ideas People Trust We are BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them. We will broaden your horizons Our Advisory team provide a wide variety of services that deliver value-led advice and outcomes. They have an in-depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of affairs. The team work across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. From technology to risk advisory, they're experts in following through on top-level instructions and resolving the finer details - all in one straight-forward package. When you join them, you'll work on some of the world's most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry We will help you succeed Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships. You will be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior executives, directors, and BDO's partners to help our clients achieve their objectives. You will be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with. Overview This role is within the Prudential & Authorisations Team ("P&A Team") where you will focus on range of regulatory matters including prudential risk management (e.g. capital, liquidity, recovery planning, and solvent wind-down planning), authorisation related client support and various elements of both governance and risk management related activities. Our clients include banks, building societies, insurers, and a wide range of different FCA solo regulated firms. We are recruiting to support our growing footprint in the market and the role provides longer-term career progression for the right candidate in this rapidly developing advisor area of BDO's service offering. You will work closely with colleagues from within the team and the wider BDO to deliver advisory support to our clients, act as SME on Internal Audit engagements and help delivered Skilled Person (Section 166) reviews. You'll be someone with: Has an understanding of the UK Financial Services sector; Has and understanding of the UK Regulatory Framework; Has had previous exposure to the Prudential Regulation Authority's Rulebook and the Financial Conduct Authority's Handbook; and Is a strong communicator both verbally and in writing. Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. We value diversity and you will be able to be yourself; we recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We are committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, the team, and the specific task at hand. At BDO, we will help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development. We are in it together! We are looking forward to the future At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we are always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions We have a clear purpose, and we are confident in our future, because adapt and evolve to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

Executive Assistant Location: Lisburn Reports to: Senior Leadership Team / Managing Director Employment Type: Full-Time / Permanent Working hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm Salary: £30,000 -£35,000 (dependant on experience) Role Overview The Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative, organisational, and operational support to the Managing Director and wider leadership team. This role requires exceptional attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, technical business environment. Key Responsibilities Executive Support Proactively manage executive calendars, appointments, and scheduling across multiple time zones. Prepare briefing packs, reports, presentations, and documentation for internal and client meetings. Act as the first point of contact for executive communications, screening requests and prioritising urgent matters. Support board meetings, including agenda preparation, document collation, and minute taking. Operations & Administration Coordinate travel arrangements, accommodation, and itineraries for senior leadership. Manage confidential documentation with discretion and professionalism. Maintain accurate filing systems, databases, and sensitive records. Assist with procurement administration, purchase orders, and vendor coordination where required. Project Coordination Liaise between internal departments (engineering, production, logistics, finance) to ensure actions and deadlines are met. Assist in the preparation of commercial proposals and client materials. Client & Stakeholder Liaison Build strong working relationships with internal teams, suppliers, and external customers. Assist with hosting visitors on site. Support client visits, site tours, and related hospitality arrangements. Represent the executive office professionally at all times. Skills & Experience Required Proven experience as an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, or Senior Administrator. Experience within automotive, manufacturing, defence, engineering, or technical environments is highly desirable. Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills. Strong written and verbal communication abilities. Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams). Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion. Professionalism, resilience, and a proactive attitude. Ability to work effectively under pressure and adapt to changing demands. Desirable Attributes Project support or coordination experience. Understanding of procurement or supply chain processes. Knowledge of compliance, ISO standards, or regulated industries. Full UK driving licence. What We Offer Competitive salary based on experience. Opportunity to work in a fast growing, specialist vehicle organisation. Professional development and training opportunities. A supportive and collaborative working culture.

Assistant Director - Fund Management Homes England - National Housing Bank (NHB) £85,862 - £114,417 | Permanent | Hybrid (50/50) Location: Hybrid (Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Northstowe) Homes England is launching the National Housing Bank, a new government-backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England. The National Housing Bank is a new government-backed financial institution within Homes England. With £16bn in capital, it will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up. As Assistant Director - Fund Management, you will play a central leadership role in how the Bank governs, allocates and optimises its capital, ensuring billions of pounds are deployed strategically, efficiently and with maximum impact. The opportunity Responsibilities include: . Lead the design and implementation of NHB's capital governance, allocation methodology and portfolio optimisation. . Oversee Virtual Economic Capital usage, limits, monitoring and reporting to Executive and Board. . Drive portfolio-wide analysis, including stress testing, scenario modelling and forward-looking capital planning. . Produce high-quality, decision-focused reporting that informs strategy, risk appetite and capital deployment. . Build scalable fund-management operating frameworks, controls and processes. . Provide senior leadership to the growing team, including future line management of the Head of Fund Management. . Collaborate closely with Loans, Equity, Guarantees, Finance, Risk (incl. Quant Modelling), Operations and Regional teams. . Represent Fund Management in cross-NHB governance forums and champion continuous improvement. This is a rare chance to build a critical function from scratch within a national institution. Candidate profile You bring: . Significant senior experience in fund management, banking, investment or treasury functions. . Strong understanding of capital frameworks (Basel III/CRR), stress testing and capital forecasting. . Advanced financial modelling and portfolio reporting capability. . Proven ability to design, implement and optimise investment-management processes and controls. . Strong leadership and experience developing senior specialists and high-performing teams. . Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills, including engagement at Executive and Board level. . A strategic mindset with the ability to build structure and clarity in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment. Desirable backgrounds include: regulated investment environments, portfolio risk, capital management, structured finance, or public-sector financial institutions. Why join? . Shape a national institution at a defining moment in its creation and growth. . High-impact work - directly influence how billions in government capital are deployed. . Competitive salary & benefits - including 33 days' annual leave, hybrid working and wellbeing support. . Career growth - lead a critical function in a collaborative, mission-driven organisation. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of housing investment and deliver long-term impact for communities across England. Contact point for applicants Name: Ciara Lynn  Closing date: 15th April 2026 Right to Work in the UK is required.

Finance Manager - Property & Assets Location: Hybrid home working / Didsbury / Manchester Salary: 49,934 increasing to 51,783 after 6 months Full Time / 35 hours per week / Permanent About Us Southway Housing Trust is a committed and forward-thinking community focused housing association dedicated to providing excellent homes and outstanding customer care. With a vision of Thriving Communities, Southway manages over 6,500 homes across Greater Manchester. Southway strives to reduce child poverty, loneliness and isolation and increase employment, social connectedness and pride in neighbourhoods. Our REACH values of Respect, Equity, Ambition, Compassion and Honesty reflect Southway's culture, how we deliver our services, and our relationships with customers, colleagues and partners. Southway values diversity in all aspects of its communities and operations. Candidates / Role An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Finance team for a Finance Manager - Property & Assets to lead Southway Group's financial monitoring of its property and assets programme. This will entail collaborative work with service managers whilst preparing and reporting KPIs to demonstrate performance and driving improvements through internal controls and processes. You will also have: - Advanced accounts and general ledger skills. - Excellent verbal communication skills, able to explain financial information to residents and manage relations with internal customers effectively - Strong excel skills, with a knowledge of a range of functions and their application. Your main responsibilities would include: 1. Lead the development of effective reporting tools and financial data reports for the Property Services and Assets Teams to support the provision of good quality information for decision making, including concise written reports for the Executive and others. 2. Regular reporting of key performance indicators to show performance against targets (operational and financial), trends and any risk to Southway including non-compliance, reduced income/spend levels, loss of grant, ensuring escalation where necessary to develop remedial actions. 3. Contrast the results of stock condition surveys to Business Plan assumptions. Prepare and monitor long term budgets based on data from various sources including programme schedules, survey results and data from housing management system. This should outline any slippage, savings, acceleration and overspends, with corresponding impacts on current and future year budgets. 4. Support preparation of programme returns and grant claims to external partners (identifying works, administration and staffing elements), ensuring all data and explanations are evidenced with colleagues before submission. 5. Prepare fixed asset register and general ledger entries using data from the stock investment programme to ensure the accountancy for the capital works costs and related grant are correctly identified for individual properties and components. 6. Prepare budgets for Property Services including analysis of different workstreams (and agree recharges between DLO and the client) to ensure value for money is achieved via operational delivery. 7. Ensure the Finance Apprentice (Property & Assets) liaises productively with budget holders to analyse results and consider actions to deliver effective budgetary control. 8. Identify and drive improvements in processes and procedures which impact the financial performance of the repairs and maintenance service. 9. Assist budget holders to operate an effective system of electronic purchase order and invoice authorisation routines, resolving individual users' difficulties. Support budget holders to enable them to navigate through the financial processes, including the NOPO report, to improve data integrity and accurately record costs and grant income to be accrued. 10. Provide information to Finance Operations team supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts, annual statutory accounts and other reports as required (e.g. Funders Report) outlining performance and explanations on variances. Closing Date: Monday 13 October 2025 Interview Date: w/c Monday 20 October 2025 For an informal discussion about this role please contact Bhups Gohil, Assistant Director of Finance . We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from suitably skilled people from all sectors of the community. All applicants who have a disability or are ex armed forces that meet the minimum essential criteria for the post will be invited to interview. If you have a disability or are ex armed forces, please tell us about this on your application form and please let us know about any special arrangements you would like us to make if you are invited in for an interview.

Ivy Rock Partners is delighted to be working exclusively with a Catholic charitable organisation to appoint a bright and attentive Executive Assistant to support the Finance Director and Treasurer. This is a unique opportunity to join a decentralised, community-focused charity where the Finance Director s remit extends well beyond finance into HR, compliance, risk, and operations. The successful candidate will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth running of governance, systems, and administration, enabling the Finance Director to focus on strategic priorities. Importantly, while this role touches on finance, no prior finance experience is required the Director and team are committed to coaching and supporting the postholder to develop confidence in finance-related tasks. Location: Hybrid (2 3 days in the office, flexible) Salary: £35,000 £42,000 (Full-time; part-time 0.6 0.8 FTE considered) The Role Act as executive assistant to the Finance Director and Treasurer, managing diaries, travel, inboxes, and logistics. Take ownership of the Every HR and compliance system across the organisation, ensuring accurate and up-to-date records for joiners and leavers. Prepare agendas and take formal minutes for committee meetings, notably Health & Safety, Finance, Risk, and Investment. Manage organisational policies, ensuring timely reviews by trustees/committees. Produce correspondence, expense claims, and other administrative documents. Administer the credit card programme and online banking, acting as the first point of contact for user queries. Oversee filing and document management (electronic and physical) within the finance department. Support monthly cashflow analysis by allocating bank transactions in spreadsheets (training provided). Collaborate with IT to ensure business continuity planning is robust. Person Profile Essential: Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel). Excellent written English and communication skills. Highly organised, methodical, and detail focused. Able to work independently, showing initiative and foresight. Patient, adaptable, with a sense of humour. Sympathetic to the values and aims of the Catholic Church (but no requirement to be Catholic). Offer 5% employer pension contribution. Death-in-service benefit and access to an Employee Assistance Programme (including online GP) (non-contractual) 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. Flexible working, with 2 3 days in the office. Option for part-time hours (0.6 0.8 FTE). This role will suit someone who is proactive, highly organised, and eager to support a senior leader with wide-ranging responsibilities. It offers the chance to be part of a meaningful, mission-driven organisation while developing valuable skills across HR, compliance, and finance. Process One-stage in-person interview. Minute-taking exercise (outside the meeting). Reasonable adjustments will be considered. Flexible start timeline the organisation is focused on finding the right person.

Two Rivers Housings - Senior Finance Business Partner - Newly created role Senior Finance Business Partner Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire £22m Turnover Not-for-Profit Housing Association £60,000 - 63,000 / Generous pension and flexible working Hays Senior Finance is proud to be partnering exclusively with Two Rivers Housing, an independent not-for-profit organisation with a strong social purpose and over 4,000 homes across Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. With a mission to create great homes and support communities, Two Rivers Housing is committed to delivering safe, affordable housing and services that make a real difference. We are seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategy, driving performance, and delivering value for money across the organisation. The Role As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will: Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes. Deliver insightful financial analysis and business partnering across the Group. Drive continuous improvement, automation, and efficiency in financial operations. Support strategic decision-making through modelling, scenario planning, and business case development. Collaborate with procurement and operational teams to ensure robust financial governance. Present financial performance to the Board and Executive Team. You will also lead a high-performing team, champion data-led decision-making, and deputise for the Assistant Director of Resources when required. About You We're looking for a dynamic and collaborative finance leader who brings: CCAB qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA). Proven experience in business partnering, ideally within housing or construction. Strong financial modelling and data analysis skills (Power BI experience a plus). Expertise in financial systems, reporting tools, and internal controls. A track record of leading teams and delivering high-quality financial services. Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels. Why Join Two Rivers Housing? Make a meaningful impact in a values-driven organisation. Work in a beautiful location with flexible working options. Be part of a supportive, forward-thinking leadership team. Enjoy a role that combines strategic influence with operational delivery. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. #