Interim Finance Director
Join Magna as Interim Finance Director: provide trusted financial leadership for social housing, delivering strategy, risk, and board-ready insights from day one!
Salary £120,000 per annum plus additional executive benefits.
37 hours per week.
Home-based with occasional travel.
Interim role - 12 Months.
Closing date for applications: 07.04.26 (Midday)
Interviews will take place virtually on the 14.04.26
At Magna, our vision is to build great homes together. We have ambitious plans and are seeking creative, aspirational and talented people to join our fast paced, adaptable, and highly collaborative environment. You will become part of an organisation guided by strong values that empowers you to make a difference from day one. Magna provides a welcoming atmosphere, excellent wellbeing benefits, and fosters a culture where meaningful work thrives!
The role & what you take care of:
We are seeking an accomplished interim financial leader with proven expertise in rapid diagnostics, executive-level guidance, and robust financial stewardship within the social housing sector. You will bring clarity and confidence to strategic decisions, demonstrate technical rigour, and foster strong relationships at Board level. Your track record includes disciplined treasury and risk management, credible development funding, and value-driven procurement, all underpinned by your commitment to Magna’s values and visible, collaborative leadership.
Provide stabilising financial leadership across Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Risk and Assurance to support Magna’s strategic priorities and maintain financial resilience.
Advise the Executive Board on financial strategy, development accounting, budgeting, taxation, treasury management, procurement and risk, enabling clear and confident decision-making.
Lead robust financial planning, forecasting and performance insight to support sound investment decisions and ensure Magna’s long-term sustainability.
Act as Executive lead for all financial aspects of RSH engagement, including regulatory returns, viability grading, stability checks and stress-testing.
Oversee treasury strategy, development investment appraisals and procurement discipline, ensuring liquidity, compliance, risk management and value for money.
Embed strong assurance culture and compliance, strengthening financial insight and capability, leaving a confident team and improved disciplines in place.
What you need to be successful:
You will bring senior finance leadership experience within social housing, excellent regulatory knowledge, and the confidence to operate at Board level from day one. You combine technical depth with pragmatic judgement, and you can quickly bring stability, clarity and pace.
Extensive senior financial leadership in social housing, with a proven record of operational delivery and enhanced outcomes.
In-depth expertise in housing regulation, financial strategy, assurance, and risk management.
Proven experience in leading finance, treasury, procurement, and risk functions, including business planning and resource allocation.
Demonstrated ability to deliver complex strategies and investment decisions, with skills in development funding and financial appraisal.
Excellent commercial acumen, financial literacy, and communication skills, able to drive value for money and influence at Executive and Board level.
Collaborative, inclusive leadership style, fostering accountability, high performance, and a robust assurance culture.
A recognised professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) is required.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Dani Davies – Talent Acquisition Manager at: dani.davies@magna.org.uk or by mobile: 07528 974936
Magna reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application early.
- Department
- Executive Board
- Role
- Interim Finance Director
- Locations
- Home-based with occasional travel
- Yearly salary
- £120,000
- Employment type
- Contract
- Closing date
- 07 April, 2026
- Closing time
- Midday
Benefits and perks
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Your annual leave entitlement starts at 5 weeks plus bank holidays and will increase progressively with the duration of your service over the first five years.
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If you're unwell and not able to work due to ill health, you'll receive paid sick pay based on your length of service with us.
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You receive a Social Housing Pension Scheme defined contribution. You get to decide how much you want to contribute (between 4% and 8%) and we will match this.
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We invest in your development at #TeamMagna. Our dedicated People Talent Team can help support you with your career progression and learning to help you go further, learn new skills and gain new qualifications.
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If you need to use your own vehicle to do your job, we'll pay you 45p per mile and an extra 5p for any passengers.
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Depending on your role, we support colleagues to work flexibly, including where, when and how, to help you get your work-life balance right and for us to get the best from you.
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We're proud to support our local communities and encourage you to get involved by taking one paid day a year to volunteer.
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Depending on your length of service, we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave.
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All colleagues have access to FUSE, a wellbeing portal which provides useful help and advice on a range of wellbeing topics, such as healthy eating, increasing your daily exercise, sleeping well and making healthier lifestyle choices. You can even ask questions directly to an expert.
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We have a group of dedicated colleagues who meet regularly to represent the views of all our colleagues.
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Following one year of working for us, you can apply for an interest free loan of up to £1,000 to help with house moving costs.
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We are partnered with Westcountry Savings & Loans to provide credit union facilities to colleagues and customers. You can apply to save with them or take out a loan from them.
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We provide an Employee Assistance service which offers up to 8 individual counselling sessions and support is available to our colleagues, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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All colleagues have access to Medicash, a health cash back scheme, where you can claim money back on your day to day medical and wellbeing costs (up to annual claim limits).
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Medicash can offer discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping.
Workplace and culture
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.
Our values
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Always safe
This means the safety of our colleagues and our customers is always our main priority.
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All about customers
This is our mindset and our team approach to putting customers at the heart of all we do.
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Be kind
This is about how we treat each other and how we go about our business.
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Own it
This is about how we all take responsibility for all our actions every day.
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One team
This is how we come together as #teammagna, embracing our diversity and recognising that together we can achieve outstanding results.
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Be curious
This is about how we learn about each other, our customers and our business. Learning helps make sure we all do the right thing, how we challenge convention and look beyond existing boundaries.
About Magna Housing
We’re proud to be a community-based housing association, providing homes and services to people in the South-West. We’re here to understand our customers’ needs and create places where they feel safe, belong, and can build a future.