Finance and Commercial Manager

Mears; Thurrock; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social housing provider in the UK is seeking a Finance & Commercial Manager to support strategic decision-making. You will provide financial insights, manage commercial contracts, and deliver essential financial management analysis. The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience in social housing, excel in financial reporting, and foster collaborative relationships across teams. This role offers a £4,500 car allowance, an enhanced pension scheme, and a family-friendly policy including enhanced sick pay and maternity/paternity leave.

Benefits

Car Allowance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Enhanced Sick Pay

Family friendly policy

Refer a friend scheme

Share saver scheme

Eye test vouchers

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing service

Mears Annual Family Fun Day

Mears Rewards

Qualifications

• Experience in interpreting commercial contracts.
• Demonstrable experience in financial reporting.
• Experience in Social Housing and Housing Maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial and commercial insights to senior leadership.
• Translate financial data into meaningful insights.
• Deliver first-class financial management information and analysis.
• Support continuous improvement in commercial and financial processes.

Skills

Strong Excel skills

Excellent communication

Ability to work under pressure

Time management

Engaging with collaborative relationships

Job description

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’ll 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 t 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

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