The Scottish Housing Regulator is here to protect the interests of tenants and to regulate to secure decent homes and services. The social housing sector is about people, not profit. But improving the business and financial performance of social landlords is vital to their success - not least where they rely on private lending to build new homes. With one in four of Scotland's population living in social housing we are offering you a unique opportunity to make a real difference.
These posts sit within the 17-strong Business Analysis team. The team tracks the financial health of individual landlords and the sector as a whole. It collects, analyses and publishes financial performance and statistical information. And it carries out risk assessments, drawing on a wide range of intelligence to decide what sort of regulatory engagement we need with individual organisations or what sector-wide issues we need to tackle.
Financial Analysis Manager
Glasgow, £38,631 - £50,551
You've already put your professional accountancy qualification to good use and are more than familiar with analysing statutory accounts, key financial and efficiency indicators. This post gives you a national stage and calls for well-honed analytical skills and the ability to write intelligible reports and guidance for the sector, manage staff and relationships effectively, and communicate financial assessments to a wide and diverse audience. You will also need to understand the art of business planning and direct the interrogation of financial models and the assumptions that underpin them.
Regulation Manager
Glasgow, £38,631 - £50,551
Your business acumen and analytical expertise is allied to strong relationship management and communication skills. You will have experts to draw on (like the Financial Analysis Manager) but you will be financially and business literate and can hold your own in discussions about financial viability, governance, investment and service delivery with senior officers and volunteer board members in regulated bodies. You will work in a small team that is at the heart of developing our risk based approach to regulation. So, understanding the purpose and impact of regulation is important. You will analyse intelligence from a wide range of sources to decide where the key risks lie in the sector and organisations we regulate, and devise sound strategies for tackling them. You have a track record of sound project management and are degree educated.
We may pay towards the top of the range for exceptional candidates. In addition to your salary, we offer an extremely attractive civil service benefits package, pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and the chance to develop your career within a changing and challenging working environment.
Find out how rewarding working for the Scottish Housing Regulator can be. Visit our website www.drive-improvement.co.uk or write to Scottish Government Central Resourcing Unit, S1 Spur, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD, giving your full postal address. Completed applications must be returned by Monday 5 January 2009.
