HARRON HOMES LIMITED
Finance Manager
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Finance Manager - Group
We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Finance Manager to join Harron Homes. This is a key role within the finance function, providing strong financial oversight across our two operational regions and acting as a trusted finance partner to senior operational teams.
The Finance Manager will take ownership of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, financial analysis, and business partnering, while managing and developing the Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant.
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant who enjoys operating beyond the numbers, challenging assumptions, supporting commercial decision making, and helping a growing business improve the quality and effectiveness of its financial management.
The role:
Financial Reporting & Control
- Manage month end reporting process and ensure agreed deadlines are met.
- Review monthly management accounts and provide clear analysis and commentary on performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
- Identify and communicate key risks, opportunities, sensitivities, and material movements.
- Review material journals, provisions, accruals, and accounting estimates.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules.
- Ensure consistent accounting treatments, reporting standards, and financial controls across both regions.
- Identify control weaknesses and drive appropriate corrective action.
Cash Flow & Site Valuations
- Prepare and review monthly regional cash flow packs, working closely with operational teams.
- Maintain site cash flows covering revenue, costs, margins, work in progress, and cost-to-complete forecasts.
- Review site valuation submissions, challenge assumptions, and ensure forecasts accurately reflect the latest position.
- Work with regional teams to maintain current and pre-development site forecasts.
- Support the Finance Director with sensitivity and scenario analysis, including the impact of sales rates, pricing, incentives, build programs, and cost movements on profitability and cash flow.
- Attend regional review meetings where financial input is required.
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Budgeting & Forecasting
- Support the Finance Director with the annual budgeting and periodic reforecasting processes.
- Coordinate financial input from regional operational teams to ensure budgets and forecasts reflect current business plans.
- Continually improve the accuracy, efficiency, and usefulness of forecasting models and processes.
Banking & Cash Management
- Support the Finance Director with day-to-day cash management activities.
- Assist with banking, covenant, and bond-provider reporting.
- Liaise with banks and bond providers on routine matters as required.
- Support effective banking, payment, and fraud-prevention controls.
- Review bank payments and payment runs, ensuring appropriate authorization procedures have been followed.
Business Partnering
- Act as a senior finance contact for Regional Managing Directors and operational teams.
- Build strong working relationships across Commercial, Sales, Construction, Land, and Technical functions.
- Provide constructive challenge to financial and commercial assumptions.
- Ensure agreed financial actions are followed through.
- Escalate material financial risks and concerns to the Finance Director.
- Promote financial accountability and consistency across the Group.
Statutory, Tax & Audit
- Coordinate information required for statutory accounts and support the annual external audit.
- Support the Finance Director with corporation tax, VAT, CIS, PAYE, and other statutory or tax matters and enquiries.
Leadership & Development
- Manage, mentor, and develop the Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant.
- Set high standards for accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure responsibilities previously undertaken by regional Financial Controllers are effectively embedded within the central Finance team.
- Deputise for the Finance Director on routine financial and reporting matters when required.
Systems & Process Improvement
- Drive consistent finance processes and controls across both operational regions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate finance activities.
- Support the effective use and ongoing development of COINS.
- Improve the quality, accessibility, and commercial value of management information.
- Ensure key finance processes and responsibilities are clearly documented.
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About you:
You will be a qualified accountant with strong experience in financial control, management accounting, forecasting, and commercial finance. You will be confident working with senior operational stakeholders and comfortable providing constructive challenge when required.
You will ideally have:
- ACCA or CIMA qualification (or equivalent).
- Significant experience in a Financial Controller, Finance Manager, or Senior Management Accountant position.
- Experience managing and developing a small finance team.
- Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow projections.
- Excellent commercial awareness and the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
- Experience within housebuilding, construction, or another project-based environment is desirable.
- Experience with VAT, CIS, PAYE, and other statutory reporting and enquiries.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities.
- COINS experience is desirable.
Personal attributes:
- A clear, confident, and effective communicator at all levels.
- Commercially minded and able to translate financial information into meaningful business insight.
- Highly organized, dependable, and able to deliver to deadlines.
- Exceptionally accurate, with strong attention to detail.
- A motivated and supportive leader who enjoys developing others.
- Proactive, curious, and committed to continuous improvement.
- A confident decision-maker with sound commercial judgment.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, operational environment.
We believe Harron Homes is a place for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify.
Please note due to the volume of applicants, if you have not heard from us within 14 days, please accept this as confirmation that we will not be progressing with your application further on this occasion.
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