Finance Manager

Description

Senior Finance Manager

GBP70,000 - GBP80,000 + Car Allowance & Bonus

Leicestershire

SF Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager to join a successful and growing house construction business in Leicestershire. This is a key leadership role responsible for driving strong financial performance, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring the highest integrity of financial reporting across the division. As the Senior Finance Manager you will report directly into the Finance Director.

Key Responsibilities

- Preparation of monthly management accounts including commentary, P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow forecasts

- Maintain and update WIP summary including month-end calculations and assumptions challenge

- Reconcile project gross profit to management accounts, ensuring robust verification

- Support the Head of Finance with monthly Board pack preparation

- Lead monthly Joint Venture reporting internally and to partners

- Business partner with Sales, Operations and Commercial teams to enhance performance

- Participate in weekly Build and Sales meetings

- Ensure data accuracy across COINS and Anaplan

- Monitor daily bank movements and maintain short-term cash forecasts

- Update monthly sales forecasts and review with senior leadership

- Oversee timely and accurate invoicing in line with sales forecasts, analysing variances

- Manage retention and bonds forecasting, working with senior management to set and deliver targets

- Monitor customer care costs and recoveries from subcontractors

- Review cost-to-complete at monthly project reviews, challenging where necessary

- Manage weekly reporting for sales and build performance

- Deliver flash reporting to Finance Director and Division on working day on

- Drive continuous improvement in systems, processes and financial governance

- Lead preparation of audit schedules

- Manage and develop a finance team, including performance reviews and objective setting

- Collaborate closely with senior leadership on ad-hoc financial analysis and reporting initiatives

About You

- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified

- Extensive post-qualification experience in a similar role

- Proven ability to produce clear, concise management information

- Strong Excel capability and analytical skills

- Confident working independently and managing priorities to meet tight deadlines

- Effective communicator, able to build relationships across commercial teams

- Strong commercial acumen and proactive mindset

- Flexible, adaptable and comfortable challenging assumptions to drive improvements

- Team leadership experience

- Desirable

- Experience within the construction industry

- Knowledge of COINS accounting system

- Familiarity with Anaplan

What We Offer

- Competitive salary and annual bonus scheme

- Company car / car allowance / travel allowance options

- Salary sacrifice car scheme

- Private medical insurance options

- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies

- Competitive pension scheme via salary sacrifice

- Life assurance at 4x salary

- Share save and share incentive plans

- Employee rewards and benefits programme

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