Head of Finance

The Vacancy

🚀Liberty

💼 Head of Finance

📍 Liverpool

Liberty is a national property services and energy business, part of Wates Property Services (WPS). We’re seeking a commercially driven, strategic Head of Finance to play a key role in our organisation. This isn’t just another finance leadership role.

This is your opportunity to shape strategy, influence decision-making at the highest level, and drive sustainable growth across a dynamic, evolving business.

🌟 The Opportunity

You’ll sit at the centre of business performance, driving financial excellence, challenging decisions, and enabling growth.

You’ll lead the finance function while partnering across the business to ensure we deliver on our financial commitments, maximise value, and unlock future opportunities.

🔍 What you’ll be doing

• Leading the finance function for the business division, providing insight, challenge, and direction
• Delivering robust financial control, reporting, budgeting and forecasting to support decision-making
• Acting as a trusted partner to senior leaders, influencing both strategic and operational decisions
• Driving performance through insight, analysis, and clear communication of financial data
• Owning governance, controls, and risk management, ensuring strong financial discipline across the business
• Leading business transformation projects to accelerate growth and improve margins
• Supporting strategic initiatives, including M&A activity and due diligence
• Driving the cash agenda, ensuring strong financial health and performance
• Leading, inspiring and developing a high-performing finance team

👥 What we’re looking for

We’re open to talent from any sector, what matters most is your leadership impact, commercial mindset, and ability to influence change.

You’ll bring:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Proven experience in senior finance leadership roles
• A strong track record of driving performance, managing risk, and leading teams
• The ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insight
• Confidence to challenge, influence and support senior stakeholders
• A passion for continuous improvement, transformation, and innovation
• Strong leadership capability with a focus on engagement, culture and development

🌍 Why Liberty / WPS?

• Be part of a business that is growing, evolving and investing in transformation
• Work alongside senior leaders and the Board, influencing real decisions
• Join a culture that values inclusion, collaboration and high performance
• Play a key role in delivering sustainable, long-term business success

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

📢 Ready to make your mark?

If you’re looking for a role where you can lead with purpose, influence at the highest level, and drive meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now and be part of something bigger.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.