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 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

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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