Assistant Finance Manager

Compass Group UK; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

23 days annual leave + bank holidays

Life assurance

Meals on duty

Wellbeing support

Employee assistance programme

Pension scheme

Job summary

Compass Group UK is seeking an Assistant Finance Manager - Jockey Club Experiences, Rubery, Birmingham (Hybrid) for a full-time permanent role. You will support the Head of Finance and Senior Finance Manager, developing financial reports, enforcing controls, and enabling commercial decision making on the new contract.

This role requires strong Excel and Power BI skills, experience in management accounting, and the ability to partner with operations and client teams.

Qualifications

• Experience within a finance or accounting role, ideally supporting management accounting processes.
• Strong analytical skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, macros)
• Competent in Compass Discovery and Power BI
• Experience working with financial systems (e.g. SAP or similar) desirable
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
• Good understanding of financial processes including reporting, reconciliations, and forecasting

Responsibilities

• Create and continued improvement of reporting and communication of monthly results
• Support effective business partnering with operational teams, ensuring strong financial governance and informed decision making
• Reconciliation and action on any balance sheet alignments
• Support proactive financial analysis and provide insights to highlight trends, anomalies, and performance drivers
• Support continuous improvement in financial controls, reporting processes, and data integrity
• Support the month-end close process, ensuring accurate recognition of sales, costs, accruals, and prepayments
• Key elements of management reporting, including Monthly Business Reviews and performance dashboards
• Monitor financial performance against target costs and savings, highlighting variances and risks to stakeholders
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process, working with operational teams to ensure alignment
• Deliver accurate and timely reporting in line with contract and client requirements
• Work closely with client finance teams to support transparent data and reporting
• Support preparation for client and internal finance reviews
• Build strong working relationships across Jockey Club Experiences and client teams
• Support non-finance stakeholders by improving their understanding of financial performance and KPIs
• Work collaboratively across teams to ensure alignment of reporting and financial outputs
• Engage effectively with client stakeholders to support contract performance and reporting requirements

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Compass Discovery

SAP

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Financial reporting

Forecasting

Deadline management

Team collaboration

Tools

Compass Discovery

Power BI

SAP

Job description

Assistant Finance Manager - Jockey Club Experiences, Rubery, Birmingham (Hybrid) | Full-Time / Permanent

£50000+ excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more.

Overall Purpose of the Role

In March 2026, Compass signed the £100m ground-breaking Jockey Club Experiences contract which builds on the current catering contract. This now includes not just food and beverage, but also hospitality sales (via Keith Prowse) and non-raceday sales (via Lime Venue Portfolio). The business has nearly doubled in turnover and there is a need to develop appropriate financial controls, systems and reporting to ensure client and operation needs are maximised.

As Assistant Finance Manager, you will support the Head of Finance and Senior Finance Manager and wider operational teams across the new Jockey Club Experiences contract. You will play an important role in developing financial reports, creating and enforcing financial controls, and supporting commercial decision making.

Key Accountabilities

PURPOSE: Commercial Support

• Creation and continued improvement of reporting and communication of monthly results
• Support effective business partnering with operational teams, ensuring strong financial governance and informed decision making
• Reconciliation and action on any balance sheet alignments
• Support proactive financial analysis and provide insights to highlight trends, anomalies, and performance drivers
• Support continuous improvement in financial controls, reporting processes, and data integrity

PERFORMANCE

• Support the month-end close process, ensuring accurate recognition of sales, costs, accruals, and prepayments
• Key elements of management reporting, including Monthly Business Reviews and performance dashboards
• Monitor financial performance against target costs and savings, highlighting variances and risks to stakeholders
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process, working with operational teams to ensure alignment
• Deliver accurate and timely reporting in line with contract and client requirements
• Work closely with client finance teams to support transparent data and reporting
• Support preparation for client and internal finance reviews

PEOPLE: Relationship Management

• Build strong working relationships across Jockey Club Experiences and client teams
• Support non-finance stakeholders by improving their understanding of financial performance and KPIs
• Work collaboratively across teams to ensure alignment of reporting and financial outputs
• Engage effectively with client stakeholders to support contract performance and reporting requirements

Candidate Requirements: Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Initiatives working skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines
• Experience within a finance or accounting role, ideally supporting management accounting processes
• Strong analytical skills with a high level of attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, macros)
• Competent in Compass Discovery and Power BI
• Experience working with financial systems (e.g. SAP or similar) desirable
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
• Good understanding of financial processes including reporting, reconciliations, and forecasting

Key Competencies & Behaviours

• Commercial awareness with the ability to interpret financial data and support decision making
• Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders across finance and operations
• Proactive and solution-focused, with a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing deadlines
• High level of accuracy, accountability, and attention to detail
• Collaborative and team-oriented approach

Benefits

• Medicash - Healthcare benefits, including dental, optical and therapy treatments (includes up to 4 dependent children)
• Aviva Digicare - Free annual healthcare check
• Exclusive Benefits & Wellbeing site (Perks at Work)
• Entertainment discounts - up to 55% off cinema tickets
• Health & Wellbeing discounts - Discounts for Nuffield Health (20%) and Pure Gym (10%)
• Travel discounts - Discounts with holiday companies such as TUI and Expedia
• Shopping discounts - Save up to 15% at high street and online stores by purchasing Shopping Cards
• Meals on duty
• Vodaphone discounts
• Pension scheme and Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 23 days + BH's and additional day off for your birthday
• 2 days additional leave, following return from Maternity leave during first year back
• Competitive and supportive family benefits
• Day off for baby's first birthday
• Holiday purchase scheme
• On-going training & development and career pathways
• Professional subscriptions paid
• Financial wellbeing programme and preferred rates on salary finance products

As part of Compass you'll help to feed people, fuel progress and forge connections in around 6,000 venues. Join us to grow your career with the industry leader, and get competitive pay, great perks and unrivalled opportunities for learning and development, at one of the UK's biggest businesses.

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