About Us

Link Watkin Jones website Watkin Jones Homes have a reputation for building homes which are acclaimed for their quality, style and innovation. Our residential property portfolio, ranging from contemporary apartments to executive and family homes, is designed to reflect modern lifestyles. Over the last decade our homes have been recognised for their design, quality and sustainability and our award-winning developments can be found nationwide. Watkin Jones Homes is a division of the Watkin Jones Group PLC, one of the UK’s leading construction and development companies. Established in 1791, the company can draw on more than 200 years of experience in bringing forward high-quality developments that address the needs of modern living. Based in North Wales, the Group are a leading UK developer of multi-occupancy, managed and residential properties with a particular focus on the student accommodation and build to rent sectors, creating and managing great places for people to live. Watkin Jones Group are proactively looking to develop both commercial and residential sites across the UK and are currently looking to purchase land for development. Watkin Jones, the UK's leading developer and manager of residential for rent homes with a focus on the build to rent (BTR), co-living and student accommodation (PBSA) sectors, are looking to appoint a Financial Controller to join the group on a permanent, full-time basis. Watkin Jones Group is the UK’s leading developer, builder, and manager of residential for rent homes, with 52,000+ homes developed and in-build across 135 schemes. Our operating arm, Fresh, manages over 20,000 units across 64 schemes, reflecting approximately £1.7bn of assets under management, giving us unique and unrivalled insight into what tenants and investors desire. Our company was established in 1791 and has been building homes since 1927. More recently, we listed on the AIM market in 2016 with a market cap of £255m (current market cap c. £550m). In FY2020 we generated gross revenue of £354m and a Gross Profit of £75.9m. Our position in the market is based on a ‘capital light’ model, where we typically work with institutional forward funders. Watkin Jones’ success to date has been based on our emphasis on building relationships of trust, our customer focus and our forward-thinking structure. Our intention is to create the future of living, which to us means high quality rental homes, community focus and sustainably driven development. Why Join Us? In return for your hard work and dedication, we can offer you some extensive benefits which include 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing after 2 years’ service by 1 day up to a max of 29 days per annum), discretionary annual bonus, lodge allowance, corporate summer party, medicash and a company matched contributory pension.