Finance and Commercial Manager
Mears Group, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £70,000 per year
About the role
- 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.
- Take ownership of financial performance, actively challenging operational teams on delivery against commercial terms, financial targets, and operational KPIs.
- Produce high-quality commercial and financial management information, including monthly performance reviews supported by clear, insightful commentary.
- Identify, quantify, and communicate risks and opportunities against annual targets, ensuring corrective actions are understood and implemented.
- Lead the production of rolling forecasts and annual budgets, ensuring assumptions are robust, transparent, and aligned to operational delivery plans.
- Support commercial contract activity, including pricing reviews, contract variations, repricing exercises, and tendering opportunities.
- Ensure financial and commercial information is clearly communicated to non-financial stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making at all levels.
Requirements
- Experienced Finance and Commercial Manager with a proven track record of supporting operational teams in a contract-based environment.
- Confident working with complex financial models and can evidence your ability to interpret and challenge financial and commercial performance.
- Excellent communicator, able to explain complex financial information in a clear, concise, and commercially focused way.
- Proactive, hands-on approach, are comfortable working independently, and take ownership of outcomes.
- Commercial understanding of social housing, in particular working with Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing, final accounts
Benefits
- £4,500 Car Allowance
- Mileage paid whilst travelling branches
- Great company benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial performance managementfinancial modelingbudgetingforecastingcontract managementpricing analysisKPI analysisrisk assessmentcommercial analysisperformance review
Soft Skills
communicationproactiveownershipindependent workcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkinginsightful commentarystakeholder engagementclarity in explanation