Supporting the business and our divisional offices, our Head Office functions cover all departments from our Executive Board through to our support functions such as Group Design and Technical, HR, Health and Safety, IT, Sales and Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Group Finance, Corporate Affairs, as well as Legal and Company Secretariat. We also have a specialised function – Barratt Partnerships.
While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.
Following the 2024 combination of Barratt and Redrow, the newly merged finance function continues to evolve, enhancing efficiency while providing more tailored support to the business and key stakeholders. As integration progresses, the team must address challenges in process alignment while ensuring data accuracy, regulatory compliance, and financial control.
Group Finance is structured into “centres of expertise” covering tax, treasury, financial and non-financial reporting, FP&A, and finance systems. Each team delivers deep functional expertise to stakeholders, be they the business, Exec, Board, investors, holders of debt, or government bodies such as HMRC.
The FP&A team plays a critical role in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making, providing high-quality analysis and insight to the Board, company executives, heads of function and external equity investors. The team is expected to apply a continuous improvement mindset, and ensures excellence in forecasting, financial planning, and performance management, balancing both support of and challenge to the wider business. The team will complete a transition over the next 2-3 years, moving from largely historically focused spreadsheet reporting to more forward looking analytics and decision support. The team will continue to partner across the business, and with functions including the GDO, to support roll out of standard reporting products through Power BI. The aim, over time, is to embed predictive analysis and scenario planning to enhance financial visibility, drive informed decision-making, and support sustainable growth, as well as streamlining forecasting and planning processes.
The FP&A Analyst – Land is part of the FP&A team focused on understanding the Group’s performance and supporting financial delivery. The land analyst role is focused on driving understanding of the Group’s land position and its development from both a financial statement perspective (including cashflow and balance sheet), but also strategically, given the importance of land in the Group’s future growth. Further, the role is critical to enabling senior leaders to understand the Group’s overall land pipeline position and will help drive value maximising investment decisions at LDLG and the Board. Principal accountabilities include:
Accountabilities
- Work with the wider FP&A team to ensure Group Finance, the Executive team, and the Board fully understand the strengths and challenges of the land pipeline.
- Monitor and report on the land pipeline, deliver monthly status reporting to key stakeholders tracking site status, regional distribution, and future development potential.
- Analyse and assess land bids and/or support land bid assessment, evaluating financial viability, site profitability, and key risks associated with acquisitions.
- Evaluate planning status and regimes, understanding approval timelines and constraints impacting land development.
- Develop understanding of land bank and pipeline, including data visualisations and analytics, transforming large datasets into clear insights to support decision-making.
- Collaborate with land and finance teams, ensuring consistency in assumptions and accurate forecasting.
- Support long-term strategic land planning, understanding data, identifying opportunities to optimise investments and improve site selection.
- Ad-hoc analysis/support as and when required.