Head of Finance - In-House Repair Delivery

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in one of the most significant transformations at Orbit?

We're establishing our own in-house repairs and maintenance organisation (DLO), bringing services closer to our customers and creating greater control, efficiency, and value across our homes. As Head of Finance - In-House Repair Delivery, you'll be at the heart of this journey, leading the financial mobilisation of a brand-new operating model and building the foundations for long-term success.

This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership with hands-on delivery. You'll shape financial strategy, design processes and controls, build a high-performing finance team, and become a trusted partner to operational leaders as the organisation grows. If you're a commercially minded finance leader who thrives on creating, influencing, and driving change, this role offers the chance to leave a lasting legacy within one of the UK's leading housing groups.

This role is part of Finance where you'll help us to invest more back into communities.

What you'll achieve

• Lead the financial mobilisation of Orbit's new in-house repairs and maintenance organisation, helping shape a critical strategic initiative from concept through to successful delivery.
• Design and implement the financial frameworks, controls, and governance required to support a high-performing and commercially focused operation.
• Develop robust financial models, budgets, forecasts, and costing methodologies that provide clarity, insight, and confidence for decision-making.
• Build and lead a capable finance team, creating a culture of accountability, commercial awareness, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with operational leaders to drive performance, identify opportunities, and ensure value for money across repairs and maintenance services.
• Establish meaningful management information, KPIs, and reporting that enable data-driven decisions and operational excellence.
• Ensure accurate financial control across labour, materials, stock, overheads, and service delivery activities.
• Provide strategic financial insight and challenge to support investment decisions, service improvements, and future growth.
• Drive the successful integration of operational and financial systems, ensuring timely and accurate reporting across the new business.
• Play a key role in delivering better outcomes for Orbit customers by helping create an efficient, sustainable, and customer-focused repairs service.
• Lead the transition from mobilisation to business-as-usual operations, ensuring the finance team, processes, controls, systems, and reporting frameworks evolve seamlessly from establishment phase into a sustainable, high-performing service.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Qualified (ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA/ICAEW/equivalent).
• Appropriate proven experience in a relevant financial position.
• Knowledge of operational performance metrics
• Demonstrates knowledge of cost accounting and the build-up of standard costing models
• Strong financial analysis and modelling skills.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate operational performance into financial insight (job profitability, unit costs, utilisation, productivity).
• Experience of mobilisation and change delivery, including designing and embedding finance processes, controls, and governance in operational environments.

Desirable skills

• Experience within housing DLO organisations or repairs service provider to housing associations or similar.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.