Finance Manager

HARRON HOMES LIMITED; Morley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Harron Homes Limited is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to provide strong financial oversight across two regional operations. You will own financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and business partnering, while developing a small finance team.

The role demands challenging assumptions, supporting commercial decisions and improving financial management across the group. You will work closely with senior operational teams and report to the Finance Director.

Qualifications

• You will be a qualified accountant with strong experience in financial control, management accounting, forecasting and commercial finance.
• Experience managing and developing a small finance team and partnering with senior operational stakeholders.
• Proven ability to challenge assumptions and support commercial decision making.
• Experience in housebuilding, construction or project-based environments is desirable.
• Strong financial modelling, analytical and data interpretation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end reporting and ensure deadlines are met.
• Review management accounts with commentary against budget and forecasts.
• Identify risks, opportunities and material movements.
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and journals.
• Maintain regional cash flows and site profitability forecasts.
• Support budgeting, reforecasting and forecasting models.
• Coordinate banking, covenant and cash-management activities.
• Partner with regional directors to drive commercial insight and accountability.
• Mentor the Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant.
• Drive finance process improvements and ensure robust controls across regions.

Skills

ACCA or CIMA

Team leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Cash flow analysis

Financial modelling

Commercial finance

Advanced Excel

VAT/CIS/PAYE knowledge

COINS experience

Education

ACCA or CIMA qualification

Tools

Excel

COINS

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Finance Manager to join Harron Homes. This is a key role within the finance function, providing strong financial oversight across our two operational regions and acting as a trusted finance partner to senior operational teams.

The Finance Manager will take ownership of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, financial analysis and business partnering, while managing and developing the Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant.

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant who enjoys operating beyond the numbers, challenging assumptions, supporting commercial decision making and helping a growing business improve the quality and effectiveness of its financial management.

The role:

• Manage month end reporting process and ensure agreed deadlines are met.
• Review monthly management accounts and provide clear analysis and commentary on performance against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Identify and communicate key risks, opportunities, sensitivities and material movements.
• Review material journals, provisions, accruals and accounting estimates.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules.
• Ensure consistent accounting treatments, reporting standards and financial controls across both regions.
• Identify control weaknesses and drive appropriate corrective action.

Cash Flow & Site Valuations

• Prepare and review monthly regional cash flow packs, working closely with operational teams.
• Maintain site cash flows covering revenue, costs, margins, work in progress and cost-to-complete forecasts.
• Review site valuation submissions, challenge assumptions and ensure forecasts accurately reflect the latest position.
• Work with regional teams to maintain current and pre-development site forecasts.
• Support the Finance Director with sensitivity and scenario analysis, including the impact of sales rates, pricing, incentives, build programmes and cost movements on profitability and cash flow.
• Attend regional review meetings where financial input is required.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the Finance Director with the annual budgeting and periodic reforecasting processes.
• Coordinate financial input from regional operational teams to ensure budgets and forecasts reflect current business plans.
• Continually improve the accuracy, efficiency and usefulness of forecasting models and processes.

Banking & Cash Management

• Support the Finance Director with day to day cash management activities.
• Assist with banking, covenant and bond-provider reporting.
• Liaise with banks and bond providers on routine matters as required.
• Support effective banking, payment and fraud-prevention controls.
• Review bank payments and payment runs, ensuring appropriate authorisation procedures have been followed.

Business Partnering

• Act as a senior finance contact for Regional Managing Directors and operational teams.
• Build strong working relationships across Commercial, Sales, Construction, Land and Technical functions.
• Provide constructive challenge to financial and commercial assumptions.
• Ensure agreed financial actions are followed through.
• Escalate material financial risks and concerns to the Finance Director.
• Promote financial accountability and consistency across the Group.
• Coordinate information required for statutory accounts and support the annual external audit.
• Support the Finance Director with corporation tax, VAT, CIS, PAYE and other statutory or tax matters and enquiries.

Leadership & Development

• Manage, mentor and develop the Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant.
• Set high standards for accuracy, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Ensure responsibilities previously undertaken by regional Financial Controllers are effectively embedded within the central Finance team.
• Deputise for the Finance Director on routine financial and reporting matters when required.

Systems & Process Improvement

• Drive consistent finance processes and controls across both operational regions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance activities.
• Support the effective use and ongoing development ofCOINS.
• Improve the quality, accessibility and commercial value of management information.
• Ensure key finance processes and responsibilities are clearly documented.

About you:

You will be a qualified accountant with strong experience in financial control, management accounting, forecasting and commercial finance. You will be confident working with senior operational stakeholders and comfortable providing constructive challenge when required.

You will ideally have:

• ACCA or CIMA qualification (or equivalent).
• Significant experience in a Financial Controller, Finance Manager or Senior Management Accountant position.
• Experience managing and developing a small finance team.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting and cash flow projections.
• Excellent commercial awareness and the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
• Experience within housebuilding, construction or another project-based environment is desirable.
• Experience with VAT, CIS, PAYE and other statutory reporting and enquires.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities.
• COINS experience is desirable.

Personal attributes:

• A clear, confident and effective communicator at all levels.
• Commercially minded and able to translate financial information into meaningful business insight.
• Highly organised, dependable and able to deliver to deadlines.
• Exceptionally accurate, with strong attention to detail.
• A motivated and supportive leader who enjoys developing others.
• Proactive, curious and committed to continuous improvement.
• A confident decision-maker with sound commercial judgement.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, operational environment.

We believe Harron Homes is a place for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like or how you identify.

Please note due to the volume of applicants, if you have not heard from us within 14 days, please accept this as confirmation that we will not be progressing with your application further on this occasion.