Job Description
Finance Manager – Newly Created Leadership Role
This newly created Finance Manager position offers the chance to take full ownership of the company’s financial operations and shape long-term financial strategy. It’s a hands-on, office based role for a qualified finance professional with strong manufacturing or construction experience, confident in balancing day-to-day control with strategic insight.
As Finance Manager, you’ll be central to driving sustainable growth, strengthening financial processes, and acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities of the Finance Manager:
Project & Construction Finance:
Working closely with project managers, estimators, and commercial teams to oversee:
* Project profitability tracking and cost-to-cost forecasting
* Project valuations and applications for payment
* Tendering and bidding with accurate cost analysis
Fully responsible for:
* Retentions management and recovery
* Contractual payment mechanisms (including MCD and similar frameworks)
Strategic Finance
* Evaluate investments, capital expenditure, and asset management
* Advise on borrowing, financing options, and lender relationships
* Support growth initiatives with robust financial modelling
Financial Operations
* Lead bookkeeping, ledgers, and monthly/annual reporting
* Manage cashflow forecasting, working capital, and liquidity
* Develop and control budgets across departments and projects
* Oversee procurement and purchasing to reduce material and overhead costs
* Produce management accounts, cost reports, and financial KPIs
What You Bring as Finance Manager
Experience & Capability
* Proven experience as a Finance Manager or senior finance lead
* Strong background in manufacturing or contracting finance
* Deep knowledge of bookkeeping, cashflow, and budget management
* Solid understanding of construction finance: valuations, bidding, retentions, payment cycles
* Experience advising on investments, borrowing, and financial strategy
* High levels of accuracy, integrity, and commercial awareness
Desirable
* Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
* Experience in specialist construction or craft-led sectors
* Strong financial modelling and forecasting skills
* Understanding of M&A activity
* Experience implementing share ownership schemes
Ways of Working
* Skilled at improving efficiency through strong processes, controls, and governance
* Confident ensuring compliance with accounting standards, tax, and regulatory requirements
* Experience integrating financial systems with operational platforms (e.g., Simpro, Procore)
* Comfortable liaising with external accountants, auditors, banks, and advisors
Personal Attributes
* Strategic thinker with a practical, hands-on approach
* Clear, confident communicator able to advise at director level
* Organised, proactive, and commercially minded
* Values-driven, committed to quality and long-term legacy
Due to the nature of the role, it is office based, therefore you will need to live within a daily commutable distance, using your own transport.
Only those who fulfill the specified criteria will be considered. If you have not received a response within 5 working days, then you have not been successful on this occasion.
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