Finance Manager

Job Description:

Senior Finance Manager
£70,000 - £80,000 + 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