Finance and Commercial Manager
Location: Coatbridge
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: £60,000 per annum plus £4,500 car allowance, laptop and phone provided
Mears is seeking an experienced Finance and Commercial Manager to join our North Lanarkshire team. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who can partner with operational teams, drive financial performance, and provide insightful analysis that supports business decision-making.
Working closely with operational stakeholders, you will play a key role in financial management, forecasting, budgeting and commercial contract activities. You will help identify risks and opportunities, challenge performance where necessary, and ensure commercial and financial information is communicated effectively across the business.
Mears Group is a leading provider of housing and care services, working in partnership with local authorities, housing associations and other organisations across the UK. We are committed to making a positive difference to the communities we serve by delivering high quality services and creating opportunities for our colleagues to develop and succeed.
About the Role:
As Finance and Commercial Manager, you will act as a trusted commercial and financial business partner to branch leadership, helping to drive operational and financial success across the contract.
- Act as a trusted commercial and financial business partner to branch leadership
- Develop a deep understanding of operational processes, contract structures and key commercial drivers
- Take ownership of financial performance and challenge operational teams against commercial terms, financial targets and operational KPIs
- Produce high quality commercial and financial management information, including monthly performance reviews and commentary
- Identify, quantify and communicate risks and opportunities against annual targets
- Support the production of rolling forecasts and annual budgets
- Support commercial contract activity including pricing reviews, contract variations, repricing exercises and tendering opportunities
- Communicate financial and commercial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders to support informed decision-making
Key Criteria:
- Experienced Finance and Commercial Manager with a proven track record of supporting operational teams in a contract-based environment
- Confident working with complex financial models and able to interpret and challenge financial and commercial performance
- Excellent communicator, able to explain complex financial information in a clear, concise and commercially focused way
- Proactive and hands-on approach, comfortable working independently and taking ownership of outcomes
- Experience in Social Housing and Housing Maintenance is desirable
- Commercial understanding of social housing, including Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing and final accounts
- Full UK driving licence
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
- 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 ([email protected])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.
In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.
Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Finance and Commercial Manager supporting operational teams in a contract-based environment
- Confident working with complex financial models and ability to interpret and challenge financial and commercial performance
- Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders
- Proactive, hands-on approach and able to work independently taking ownership of outcomes
- Commercial understanding of social housing including Schedule of Rates, subcontractors, job pricing and final accounts
- Experience in Social Housing and Housing Maintenance
- Full UK driving licence (and to drive a Mears vehicle: over 21, licence held over 3 months, fewer than 9 points)
- Entitlement to work in the UK (Mears does not offer visa sponsorship)
- Subject to background, identity and security checks prior to employment
Mears Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mears Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Mears Group.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional days, plus paid volunteering time, signal a comparatively generous time-off offering. Flexible working available in many roles further supports practical time-off and balance.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Retail discounts, Cycle to Work, an employee assistance line, volunteering days, and company family events add tangible non-cash value. Access to training and UK‑recognised qualifications reinforces the broader wellbeing and development offering.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — A stated commitment to pay at or above the Real Living Wage and the publication of pay-related reports indicate governance and baseline fairness focus. Independent snapshots also suggest many roles meet living‑wage thresholds.
Mears Group Insights
What We Do
Mears Group is a market-leading housing and care company that provides bespoke services to our clients. We provide and manage 11,000 homes for local and central Government and are also responsible for keeping 750,000 of all social housing in the UK in good repair. Mears has 6,500 employees and a footprint across the country
