Finance Manager - PE backed Hospitality Business

Role: Finance Manager – PE backed Hospitality Business

Location: Central London

The Role: This opportunity is working for a PE backed hospitality business with a well-positioned brand and loyal customer base. This business is going through some extraordinary growth and is planning on opening multiple new sites across the UK with further plans to expand into Europe. They are hiring for an exciting Finance Manager opportunity reporting directly to the Finance Director. This person would be playing a pivotal role to drive operational excellence and provide strategic counsel to the business leadership team. The ideal candidate will be hands-on, commercially minded, and eager to make an impact by optimising financial reporting, strengthening controls, and improving processes throughout the organisation. Furthermore, this role will evolve and become a conduit between the business and the finance team where you will spend significant time establishing relationships and providing support to senior management. You will identifying new ways to communicate performance and providing financial planning and commercial analytical support. This role comes with a very competitive salary, benefits, generous bonus scheme and a clear path for progression in the future.

Role Responsibilities:

• Providing analytical reviews and commentaries of the monthly management accounts against budget, forecast and comparative periods
• Ensuring timely completion of daily, weekly and month end reporting process for all operating sites
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations and resolution on a monthly basis
• Presenting financial results at monthly meetings to operations and the senior leadership team, and helping strategise any required performance improvements
• Produce Investment appraisals for new site developments and other capital projects
• Managing the external audit process and preparation of statutory accounts
• Identify and implementing financial process and system improvements
• Cash flow forecasting
• Assisting with the annual budget and quarterly re-forecasts
• Delivering the quarterly VAT returns and other filing requirements

Candidate Requirements:

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified professional
• Experience working within hospitality/multisite business
• An excellent communicator with the ability to tell a story and go beyond the analysis
• Experience working with non-finance staff and ability to explain financial data to them
• Has experience of project accounting

Company Information

Wayman Finance is a specialist recruitment agency with over 20 years’ experience within the Finance field. We’ve worked hard to establish our reputation with our clients as one of the most reliable Finance and Accounting agencies in London through our core values of honesty and customer excellence.

Application

To be considered for this Finance Manager position please forward your CV as soon as possible.