Senior Finance Manager in Leicester

The Senior Finance Manager is a pivotal role in the regional finance function. The role is to manage the region’s finance personnel and function, running controlled finance processes and delivering accurate outputs in a timely manner. The Senior Finance Manager is accountable for all aspects of the business unit’s (BU) finance processes, including the preparation of consolidated monthly management accounts, modelling of financial forecasts and plans for the BU, reporting of data and information to Division/Group, and management of the accounts payable and staff expenses processes. The Senior Finance Manager will engage as a business partner with colleagues from other disciplines and JVs, being able to review and challenge with the aim of enhancing financial and business performance. The role will deputise for the BU’s Finance Director at business unit management team (BUMT) Board/other meetings. The individual will have a process improvement mindset/approach.

Primary Responsibilities

• Line manager of 3 finance staff within the team.
• Manage the team members through a positive, engaging approach, ensuring that processes are robust and controlled, and outputs delivered correctly and in a timely manner.
• Develop team members through on‑the‑job training and external training programmes, including finance and soft‑skills courses (as necessary), objective setting, performance management and succession planning.
• Manage the consolidated monthly close process, ensuring a clean close of all sub‑ledgers, interfaces, and accounting judgements, with the general ledger closed by WD3.
• Submit actuals and forecast data to Division and Group (via OneStream) on WD4, confirming the accuracy of all data in the P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and other submitted operational data.
• Prepare monthly management reporting for the BU, including commentary which explains both YTD and full‑year forecast variances from budget (or forecast), for review by the FD and incorporation in the monthly BUMT Board Report.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations, including entries and accounts managed by central teams (e.g. payroll accounting), ensuring that items are correctly analysed and any accounting anomalies are cleared on a timely basis.
• Highlight issues to the FD during review and gain overall FD sign‑off.
• Account for and forecast the complex areas of notional interest (IAS) on land acquisitions, land overage payables and closed sites.
• Review WIP and land recoverability reports to ensure that all planned balance sheet amounts will be recovered by the end of the phase/site.
• Liaise with the commercial and land departments to resolve any over/under‑recovery issues.
• Conduct monthly review of WIP commitment and spend commitment in conjunction with the Commercial Manager.
• Prepare forecasts and projections sourced from the COINs environment, for approval by the FD and submission to Division/Group.
• Prepare the biannual detailed business plan/forecast, with support from the FD and with key decisions taken by the business and members of the BUMT.
• Interaction on plan creation with JVs where applicable.

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements

• Qualified Accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA, with prior experience of working as a financial accountant (or external auditor) and management accountant.
• Staff management (required) with development of staff (preferred).
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Advanced knowledge in Excel in particular required.
• Previous industry experience preferable but not essential.

What We Offer

We offer many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company‑funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also provide a discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. We provide industry‑leading professional training and development, and support you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals.

Inclusivity Statement

As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions which affect their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role.