Finance and Commercial Manager

Annual salary: up to £80,000.00

Finance and Commercial Manager

Location: London - Supporting branches in Ealing, Kensington, Brent, and Hammersmith

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time, Hybrid role with 3-4 days in organisational branches and 1-2 days working from home

Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on experience, plus £4,500 car allowance, and company benefits

Due to continued growth, we are seeking an experienced Finance and Commercial Manager to join our team. This is a critical business partnering role with full responsibility for providing robust commercial and financial support to operational branch leadership, ensuring financial performance is clearly understood and actively managed.

Working closely with operational leaders, you will translate financial data into actionable insight, challenge performance where required, and support the delivery of contract requirements and Group financial targets across multiple branches.

Mears provides and manages approximately 17,000 homes on behalf of local and central Government and is responsible for maintaining over 750,000 social housing properties across the UK.

About the Role:

This is a high impact role working directly with senior operational and commercial leaders. You will drive financial discipline, improve commercial outcomes, and support strategic decision making through clear, evidence based financial insight.

• Act as a trusted commercial and financial business partner to branch leadership, developing a strong understanding of operational processes, contract structures, and key commercial drivers.
• Take ownership of financial performance, actively challenging operational teams on delivery against commercial terms, financial targets, and operational KPIs.
• Produce high quality commercial and financial management information, including monthly performance reviews supported by clear and insightful commentary.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate risks and opportunities against annual targets, ensuring corrective actions are understood and implemented.
• Lead the production of rolling forecasts and annual budgets, ensuring assumptions are robust, transparent, and aligned to operational delivery plans.
• Support commercial contract activity including pricing reviews, contract variations, repricing exercises, and tendering opportunities.
• Ensure financial and commercial information is clearly communicated to non-financial stakeholders, enabling informed decision making at all levels.

Key Criteria:

• Proven experience as a Finance and Commercial Manager supporting operational teams within a contract-based environment.
• Strong commercial and financial experience with a clear focus on profitability and performance management.
• Confidence working with complex financial models and the ability to interpret and challenge financial and commercial performance.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• Proactive and hands on approach with the ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.
• Ability to travel between London branches and occasionally outside of London when required.
• Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA is desirable, as is experience within social housing or repairs and maintenance environments.

Benefits

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Sick Pay
• 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)
• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch
• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment
• Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Joe Monger (joe.monger@mearsgroup.co.uk)

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

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