Finance Manager

Offering a salary of up £60,000 depending on experience plus £4,500 car allowance and great company benefits.

Due to expansion, we are looking for a Finance/Commercial Manager to provide support to a wide range of stakeholders including executives, clients, and non-finance managers. The ideal person who is someone very comfortable working within the commercial side of the Finance world and you must be comfortable communicating to commercial and non-commercial bodies at all levels. We are interested to speak to people who want to make a difference and commit to a business that is growing and developing.

Mears provides and manages 17,000 homes for local and central Government and are also responsible for keeping 750,000 social housing homes in the UK in good repair.

Mears has 5,400 employees and a footprint across the country.

About the Role

Key element to this role:

• Is to engage with the business and relationship engagement, we are looking for a Finance/Commercial Manager who has the professional skill and gravitas to grow and develop exceptional relationships, whilst delivering our values and fulfilling our future ambitions as well as their own. 

• Is to produce accurate and timely Commercial models based on client tender documentation & Mears internal cost models and annual business cases.

• Working with Operational teams in branch on a range of contracts that include knowledge and experience of PPP, PPV & NHF schedule of rates.

The successful Finance/Commercial Manager will support the Head of Commercial and the successful development of the business by delivering first class commercial and financial management information & analysis, plans & forecasts. 

This role will require you to be proactive, with a hands-on approach and be able to exhibit self-manage.  

Role Criteria

• We are keen to meet a Finance/Commercial professional who has exposure within social housing or similar business sector.

• A sound commercial understanding of social housing, in particular working with Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing, final accounts.

• An ability to work in the detail of low value/high volume job data is crucial to the role.

• Demonstrable experience of engaging with and developing effective collaborative working relationships with customers and stakeholders.  

• The ability to communicate with people at all levels from varying backgrounds including those from a non-financial background, in particular, Branch Operational Managers.

• Demonstrable experience of working well under pressure and of working flexibly to manage competing priorities. 

• Strong Excel skills. 

Benefits

• £4,500 Car Allowance

• Enhanced Pension Scheme

• Enhanced Sick Pay

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.  

• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)

• Share saver scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship

If you feel you have skills needed, please apply below via the link. If you have any further questions, please contact Vickie on [email protected], quoting the job reference number.

Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks either before or upon commencement of employment.

We are also a Forces Friendly employer and an ERS Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award holder.