Potensis
Finance Director - Housebuilding
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Potensis Selection is pleased to partner with one of the UK’s leading PLC Housebuilders who are looking to appoint a Finance Director to help drive forward their exciting growth plans in the coming years.
The business has an excellent pipeline of high-value projects and is continuing to purchase new sites. The Finance Director will be responsible for leading all aspects of financial operations and will work as a key member of the executive team.
Responsibilities:
- Work as a full part of the senior leadership team to ensure the strategic growth plans of the business are delivered.
- Deliver robust financial controls and improve performance whilst mitigating risk.
- Supervise all financial operations, encompassing accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management.
- Ownership of the budgets and monthly forecasts for the business ensuring that they are accurate and well managed.
- Contribution to improvement or introduction of management information systems.
- Partnering the MD and Board with all strategic and commercial decision making.
- Use the insights generated during work to push for increased efficiency, rationalisation, and the optimal use of resources.
- Review, challenge, and support proposed land acquisitions, ensuring that all potential financial considerations and opportunities are accounted for.
- Responsible for all aspects of cash management within the region, including accurate reporting on cash inflows and outflows on a weekly basis and ensuring that risks are identified and reported as required.
- Management compliance and overall responsibility for all taxes relating to the Division including VAT, CIS, and corporation tax.
- Attend Board meetings to advise on financial and commercial issues.
- Ensure that the team is aware of its progress towards achieving the business's financial targets and provide practical solutions as to how these could be advanced.
- Help to manage external banking relationships
- Drive employee engagement through a collaborative and empowering leadership approach.
- Develop high-performing teams by ensuring the recruitment, development, and retention of high potential people occurs across the finance function.
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This is an excellent opportunity for a Finance Director with experience of working in the property sector who is able to adopt a hands-on approach whilst maintaining a strategic outlook.
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