Regional Finance Director

Job Title: Regional Finance DirectorLocation: York, YO19Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Regional Finance Director and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.Why Persimmon Homes?We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as Regional Finance Director you'll benefit from:Competitive salaryCompany Car/Car Allowance5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfactionLife Cover & Contributory PensionHealthcareBonusEmployee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and moreCommitted to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your developmentWhat is the role?The Regional Finance Director is a pivotal member of the regional leadership team, responsible for providing strategic financial leadership, ensuring robust governance, and driving commercial performance across the region. The role provides financial stewardship for a complex, multi-division business, partnering with operational leaders to support sustainable, profitable growth while maintaining the highest standards of financial control and compliance.The Regional Finance Director will lead the regional finance function, providing insight and challenge to support decision-making across six operating divisions, representing approximately 3,000 units per annum and £800 million annual turnover.What you'll do as a Regional Finance DirectorOverseeing the consolidation and quality assurance of bi-monthly management accounts including a detailed variance analysis against prior year and budget comparativesOverseeing the consolidation and quality assurance of monthly half year and year end operating forecasts explaining clearly the drivers causing anticipated changes to resultsWhere necessary challenging the businesses on key assumptions to ensure a robust process and commercially viable targeted results in-line with the Group's strategic goalsMonitoring the performance of the Finance teams and individuals at regular intervals so to highlight any potential areas of concern or improvement in departmental performance which can be addressed effectively and improve regional performanceLeading the Finance teams in ensuring that they are sufficiently trained and any departmental queries are actioned swiftly so to maintain the highest standards of success and a competitive edge for the businessAttending regular internal management and valuation meetings and ensure that actions are followed up and the region continues to communicate effectively between departmentsEnsuring that Group reporting is accurate and meets deadlines so the wider business can identify good working practice, carry out sufficient forecasting and identify any potential areas for concernWhat experience do I need?Ability to communicate at all levels in a courteous and professional mannerACA, ACCA or CIMA QualifiedPrevious experience of working within the housing sector or similar would be advantageousFully conversant with Microsoft officeTPBN1_UKTJ