Finance and Commercial Manager

Finance and Commercial Manager Mears Group PLC

Annual salary: up to £70,000.00 plus £4,500 Car Allowance, mileage paid while travelling to branches, and a range of company benefits.

As a high‑impact business partner, you will provide commercial support to the operational branch leadership teams across Essex and London. The primary purpose of this role is to take full responsibility for understanding the commercial model, taking ownership of the financial performance and profitability of the contract, and translating financial data into meaningful insights for senior leadership.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with branch operational teams, understanding their processes and delivering commercial and financial insights.
• Deliver monthly financial performance reviews and insightful commentary, including understanding risks and opportunities to annual targets.
• Produce rolling forecasts, annual budgets and any commercial contract requirements such as repricing and tendering opportunities.
• Communicate complex financial and commercial data to non‑financial teams, taking a proactive hands‑on approach and working on own initiative.

• Experience managing low‑value/high‑volume job data in detail.
• Demonstrable experience engaging with and developing collaborative working relationships.
• Experience preparing and presenting financial reporting.
• Experience commercial contracts.
• Ability to communicate with people at all levels, including non‑financial backgrounds.
• Strong Excel skills and excellent time‑management.
• Proactive, self‑managed, flexible approach to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.

• Experience in social housing and housing maintenance.
• Commercial understanding of social housing, including working with Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing, and final accounts.

• £4,500 Car Allowance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Enhanced Sick Pay
• Family‑friendly policy, including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and more.
• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1,000)
• Share saver scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme (free counselling service)
• Wellbeing service (trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
• Mears Annual Family Fun Day – fully paid, lunch included.
• Mears Rewards – performance recognition platform with high‑street vouchers.

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All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK. Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship. Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment. Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer, values individuality and ensures equal opportunities for all. We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership.

Applicants may voluntarily share background information during the application stages to help promote social mobility.