Asset Investment Manager (Commercial Manager)

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Asset Investment Manager (Commercial Manager) is an exciting new role responsible for delivering a strong and robust financial and budgetary control service to the Asset Management department. Working with other senior managers and your own small team, you will ensure that all work completed by Midland Heart and its contractors is within budget and contract terms and represents great value for money.

In addition to this you will manage the cost monitoring service identifying any trends and changes to budgets and agreeing performance improvement measures, understanding the effects of both the current contracts and future asset management strategy to forecast, monitor and report the long term financial requirements to maintain our current property portfolio to the high standards we require.

For you to do this role you will have either a Contract Management, Quantity Surveying  or Financial Management background, ideally within the construction or social housing environment and experience of managing and controlling financial and budgetary services. You will have senior management level experience of financial planning, budget setting, and budget optimisation for a large value repairs and maintenance contract and operations. You will have a strong IT knowledge of relevant systems such as Microsoft Excel and large databases such as Northgate and Keystone.

You will also be an experienced manager who is excellent at building and developing teams which are highly competent and can deliver a broad range of services, maximising the contribution of your team and others through effective leadership.

If you are a strong leader of people with a high level of initiative, with a professional approach to continuous improvement and service delivery, in addition to a thorough knowledge and understanding of financial project management and financial controls including trend analysis and forecasting, this could be the ideal next step to your career.

What can we offer you? We are an employer passionate about providing you with a great place to work. As well as a competitive salary and generous leave entitlement, you’ll benefit from our CIPD award winning reward initiative, including a range of voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits, generous pension arrangements, as well as the opportunity to develop your skills as a communications professional.

To apply, please register on our candidate portal and submit a comprehensive CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements, supported by a cover letter of no more than 2 pages which clearly explains how you think you meet the requirements of this role.

Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 8th February 2018

Recruitment Agencies please note that we do not accept speculative CVs and should one be submitted, we will assume the candidate is our own.