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South East, based in Kent (Broadstairs) & Thanet Branches with additional branch in Croydon, Permanent, Hybrid to meet business needs.
Our client is a leading social housing repair and maintenance contractor - they are recruiting for the following role:
Due to retirement, we are looking for a Finance/Commercial Manager to provide support to a wide range of stakeholders including executives, clients, and non-finance managers. The ideal person who is someone very comfortable working within the commercial side of the Finance world and you must be comfortable communicating to commercial and non-commercial bodies at all levels. We are interested to speak to people who want to make a difference and commit to a business that is growing and developing.
Our client provides and manages 17,000 homes for local and central Government and are also responsible for keeping 750,000 social housing homes in the UK in good repair.
About the Role
The successful Finance/Commercial Manager will support the Head of Commercial and the successful development 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-manage.
Role Criteria
- We are keen to meet a Finance/commercial professional who has exposure within social housing or similar business sector.
- A sound commercial understanding of social housing, in particular working with Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing, final accounts.
- An ability to work in the detail of low value/high volume job data is crucial to the role.
- Demonstrable experience of engaging with and developing effective collaborative working relationships with customers and stakeholders.
- 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.
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)
- Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
- Company Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
