About the Role
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This is a high-impact role working directly with senior operational and commercial leaders. You will play a key role in driving financial discipline, improving commercial outcomes, and supporting strategic decision-making.
You will be expected to demonstrate strong technical financial knowledge, commercial acumen, and the ability to influence non-financial stakeholders through clear, evidence-based insight.
Key Responsibilities
1. Act as a trusted commercial and financial business partner to branch leadership, developing a deep understanding of operational processes, contract structures, and key commercial drivers.
2. Take ownership of financial performance, actively challenging operational teams on delivery against commercial terms, financial targets, and operational KPIs.
3. Produce high-quality commercial and financial management information, including monthly performance reviews supported by clear, insightful commentary.
4. Identify, quantify, and communicate risks and opportunities against annual targets, ensuring corrective actions are understood and implemented.
5. Lead the production of rolling forecasts and annual budgets, ensuring assumptions are robust, transparent, and aligned to operational delivery plans.
6. Support commercial contract activity, including pricing reviews, contract variations, repricing exercises, and tendering opportunities.
7. Ensure financial and commercial information is clearly communicated to non-financial stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making at all levels.
Key Criteria:
8. Experienced Finance and Commercial Manager with a proven track record of supporting operational teams in a contract-based environment.
9. Confident working with complex financial models and can evidence your ability to interpret and challenge financial and commercial performance.
10. Excellent communicator, able to explain complex financial information in a clear, concise, and commercially focused way.
11. Proactive, hands-on approach, are comfortable working independently, and take ownership of outcomes.
12. Experience in Social Housing and Housing Maintenance
13. Commercial understanding of social housing, in particular working with Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing, final accounts
Reporting into the Head of Commercial & Compliance, you will play a key role in the continuous improvement of the business by delivering first-class financial insight, analysis, forecasts, and commercial support that directly drives performance and profitability.
Benefits
14. £4,500 Car Allowance
15. Enhanced Pension Scheme
16. Enhanced Sick Pay
17. Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
18. Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
19. Share saver scheme
20. Eye test vouchers
21. Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
22. Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
23. Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
24. 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.
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.