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 regions and act as a trusted finance partner to senior operational teams.

The role covers financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, and business partnering while managing the Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant. This is a growth-focused opportunity in a fast-paced, project-driven housing business.

Qualifications

• ACCA or CIMA qualification (or equivalent).
• Experience as Financial Controller, Finance Manager or Senior Management Accountant.
• Experience leading a small finance team.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and cash flow skills.
• Excellent commercial awareness and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in housebuilding/construction desirable.
• Proficiency with VAT, CIS, PAYE and statutory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage month-end reporting with deadlines.
• Review monthly management accounts with analysis and commentary.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and material movements.
• Review journals, provisions, accruals, and estimates.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and schedules.
• Ensure consistent accounting treatments and controls across regions.
• Lead financial control improvements across the business.
• Collaborate with regional teams on site cash flows and forecasts.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and reforecasting processes.
• Assist with banking, covenants, and statutory reporting.
• Partner with Directors and operational teams on commercial decisions.

Skills

Financial control

Management accounting

Budgeting & forecasting

Cash flow management

Commercial finance

Financial modelling

Excel proficiency

Stakeholder engagement

Education

ACCA or CIMA qualification

Experience in housebuilding/construction

Tools

COINS

Microsoft Excel

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.