Finance Manager

In this Finance Manager role you own the financial performance of a 15-contract portfolio worth ~£45m, partnering with regional operations to influence commercial decisions. You’ll translate contract data into actionable insights, support budget cycles, and drive improvements in margins, cash flow, and cost recovery. The role sits within a restructuring of the workplace solutions division and offers exposure to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams. You’ll lead a Finance Assistant and contribute to business improvements while emphasising collaboration and wellbeing.

• employee wellbeing focus
• career development
• inclusion
• collaborative culture

• Own contract P&L, budgeting, forecasting, accruals and month-end close
• Prepare management accounts, analyze variances and improve margins and cash flow
• Partner with regional operations to provide financial insight and challenge assumptions
• Oversee commercial governance across cost-plus, fixed-price, GMP and open-book contracts
• Monitor service levels and KPIs to identify financial risks and penalties
• Manage financial aspects of contract variations, pricing and capital expenditure
• Support contract mobilisation, demobilisation and re-baselining
• Produce financial reports and dashboards for senior management and clients; ensure audit readiness
• Support investment decisions and process improvements; promote collaboration and wellbeing
• Manage and develop a Finance Assistant

• Professional accounting qualification (CIMA or ACCA)
• Experience in financial management within facilities management, outsourcing, construction or contract-led services
• Understanding of contract profitability, governance, budgeting and forecasting
• Ability to partner with operational stakeholders and translate financial data into commercial recommendations
• Constructive challenge, ability to manage competing priorities and identify improvement opportunities
• Willingness to travel to contract sites across the regional portfolio
• Experience across multiple contracts or operating units; exposure to different contract structures

• collaboration
• commercial judgement
• adaptability
• budgeting and forecasting
• management accounting
• variance analysis