Finance Manager
hace 20 días
Wallingford
Finance Manager – Newly Created Leadership Role This newly created Finance Manager position offers the chance to take full ownership of the company’s financial operations and shape long-term financial strategy. It’s a hands-on, office based role for a qualified finance professional with strong manufacturing or construction experience, confident in balancing day-to-day control with strategic insight. As Finance Manager, you’ll be central to driving sustainable growth, strengthening financial processes, and acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership. Key Responsibilities of the Finance Manager: Project & Construction Finance: Working closely with project managers, estimators, and commercial teams to oversee: • Project profitability tracking and cost-to-cost forecasting, • Project valuations and applications for payment, • Retentions management and recovery, • Evaluate investments, capital expenditure, and asset management, • Advise on borrowing, financing options, and lender relationships, • Lead bookkeeping, ledgers, and monthly/annual reporting, • Manage cashflow forecasting, working capital, and liquidity, • Develop and control budgets across departments and projects, • Oversee procurement and purchasing to reduce material and overhead costs Experience & Capability • Proven experience as a Finance Manager or senior finance lead, • Strong background in manufacturing or contracting finance, • Deep knowledge of bookkeeping, cashflow, and budget management, • Solid understanding of construction finance: valuations, bidding, retentions, payment cycles, • Experience advising on investments, borrowing, and financial strategy, • Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), • Experience in specialist construction or craft-led sectors, • Strong financial modelling and forecasting skills, • Understanding of M&A activity, • Skilled at improving efficiency through strong processes, controls, and governance, • Confident ensuring compliance with accounting standards, tax, and regulatory requirements, • Experience integrating financial systems with operational platforms (e.g., Simpro, Procore), • Strategic thinker with a practical, hands-on approach, • Clear, confident communicator able to advise at director level, • Organised, proactive, and commercially minded Only those who fulfill the specified criteria will be considered. If you have not received a response within 5 working days, then you have not been successful on this occasion. Gibson Search acting as an Employment Agency.