Finance and Commercial Manager in Grays

Annual salary: up to £70,000.00

Location: South East, based in Essex supporting branches in Essex and London

Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time, Hybrid role with 3-4 days based in organisational branches and 1-2 days working from home

Salary: £70,000, plus £4,500 Car Allowance, mileage paid whilst travelling branches and great company benefits

Due to company growth and contract expansion, we are looking for a Finance and Commercial Manager to join our team. The primary purpose of this role is to take full responsibility for providing Commercial support to the operational branch leadership team in ensuring they fully understand the commercial model, take ownership of the financial performance and profitability of the contract.

The role offers a great opportunity to work alongside our operational branch leadership teams, providing commercial support to deliver the contract requirements and group targets. Mears provides and manages 17,000 homes for local and central Government and are also responsible for keeping 750,000 social housing homes in the UK in good repair.

About the Role:

• This is a high-impact, business partnering role working directly with our senior leadership team.
• You’ll provide financial and commercial insights, drive performance, and support strategic decision-making.
• Initially office-based for onboarding, the role will transition to a hybrid working model.
• You will be key in translating financial data into meaningful insights, building strong operational relationships, and ensuring commercial contracts are optimised and understood throughout the business.

The Finance & Commercial Manager role is a key business partnering role in building understanding of the branches operational process, building relationships with the operational teams, understanding the commercial contract drivers and being able to challenge branch on delivery of the commercial and financial targets and operational KPIs.

You will deliver first class Commercial and Financial management information and analysis including monthly financial performance reviews and insightful commentary and analysis including understanding risks and opportunities to annual targets, producing rolling forecasts and annual budgets. You will also be involved in any commercial contract requirements including repricing and tendering opportunities.

This role will require you to be an excellent communicator when delivering complex financial and commercial data to non-financial teams. You must have a proactive hands-on approach ability to work on own initiative.

The successful Finance/Commercial Manager will support the Head of Commercial & Compliance in the continuous improvement of the business by delivering first class commercial and financial management information & analysis, plans & forecasts. This role will require you to be proactive, with a hands-on approach and be able to exhibit self-management.

Role Criteria:

• An ability to work in the detail of low value/high volume job data.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging with and developing collaborative working relationships.
• Have a demonstrable experience in preparing and presenting financial reporting.
• Experience in interpreting commercial contracts.
• The ability to communicate with people at all levels from varying backgrounds including those from a non-financial background, in particular, Branch Operational Managers.
• Demonstrable experience of working well under pressure and of working flexibly to manage competing priorities.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Have a proactive and robust approach to work with excellent time management skills.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Social Housing and Housing Maintenance.
• Commercial understanding of social housing, in particular working with Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing, final accounts.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship. To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21, have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points. Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

Benefits:

• £4,500 Car Allowance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Enhanced Sick Pay
• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
• Share saver scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way. At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.