Finance Manager – Property Development | Hybrid & Growth

Foresight Search Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Hybrid work flexibility

Job summary

Foresight Search Ltd in Swindon is recruiting a Finance Manager to own development finance and run day-to-day accounting. The role partners with the senior leadership team to drive investment decisions on a growing UK property development portfolio.

You will build robust financial models, manage funding facilities, and ensure lender reporting and drawdowns are timely. The position offers a clear path toward Finance Director as the programme expands.

Qualifications

• Direct experience of property development finance and funding.
• Experience managing funding facilities, lender reporting and drawdowns.
• Strong knowledge of development appraisals, financial modelling and project cash flows.

Responsibilities

• Manage development funding facilities, lender relationships, reporting and drawdown requests.
• Maintain development appraisals, financial models and project cash-flow forecasts.
• Support site acquisitions, investment decisions and development viability assessments.
• Monitor development expenditure against approved budgets, appraisals and funding requirements.
• Produce monthly management accounts, board reports and financial analysis.
• Prepare company-wide cash-flow forecasts, budgets and longer-term business plans.
• Manage VAT, CIS and relevant statutory compliance.
• Oversee purchase ledger, supplier payments, banking and financial administration.
• Work closely with the Commercial Director and senior leadership team.
• Provide clear commercial and financial insight across the development portfolio.
• Establish scalable financial systems, controls and reporting processes.

Skills

Property development finance

Lender reporting

Financial modelling

Management accounting

Stakeholder engagement

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Excel advanced

Job description

Foresight Search Ltd in Swindon is recruiting a Finance Manager to own development finance and run day-to-day accounting. The role partners with the senior leadership team to drive investment decisions on a growing UK property development portfolio.

You will build robust financial models, manage funding facilities, and ensure lender reporting and drawdowns are timely. The position offers a clear path toward Finance Director as the programme expands.