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Finance Manager - Office based This 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 and a senior management mindset, able to demonstrate where you have made solid financial recommendations to grow a business. 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. Gibson Search acting as an Employment Agency.  |
