About the Role
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This is a high-impact, business partnering role working directly with our senior leadership team. You’ll provide financial and commercial insights, drive performance, and support strategic decision-making. Initially office-based for onboarding, the role will transition to a hybrid working model.
You'll be key in translating financial data into meaningful insights, building strong operational relationships, and ensuring commercial contracts are optimised and understood throughout the business.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Deliver accurate and timely financial and commercial information aligned with corporate standards.
2. Lead monthly commercial reviews with branch leadership teams, identifying performance variances and improvement opportunities.
3. Build and maintain commercial pricing models and support tender responses and repricing exercises.
4. Communicate contract terms and pricing frameworks to operational teams, ensuring compliance and understanding.
5. Implement robust controls to report and manage financial risk and opportunities.
6. Drive cost management and accurate cost allocation through our internal systems (MCM).
7. Develop and manage annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
8. Champion improvements in working capital, ensuring timely job completion and billing.
9. Provide ad hoc commercial analysis to support performance optimisation.
Role Criteria:
10. Fully qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
11. Proven commercial acumen with experience in pricing models, final accounts, and subcontractor management
12. Excellent command of Excel and experience with high-volume, low-value data analysis
13. Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders
14. Demonstrable experience of business partnering and influencing senior leaders
15. Effective time management and a proactive, hands-on approach
Desirable Experience:
16. Previous exposure to social housing or housing maintenance
17. Experience interpreting and working within commercial contracts
Benefits:
18. Enhanced Pension Scheme
19. 33 Days Annual Leave (including Bank Holidays)
20. Enhanced Sick Pay
21. Family-Friendly Policies (including enhanced maternity/paternity leave)
22. Refer-a-Friend Bonus (£1,000)
23. Share Save Scheme
24. Free Eye Tests
25. Employee Assistance Programme & Mental Health Support
26. Volunteering Days – paid time off to give back
27. Annual Family Fun Day (entry, travel & lunch covered)
28. Mears Rewards – recognition and high-street voucher platform
Join us and be part of a company where your expertise truly makes a difference — driving financial excellence, empowering operational success, and delivering real impact in communities across the UK.