Commercial Finance Analyst - Global Hospitality Business (Multisite)

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Commercial Finance Analyst - Global Hospitality Business (Multisite), London

Client:

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Hospitality

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

65f18b75ad09

Job Description:

Role: Commercial Finance Analyst – Global Hospitality Business (Multisite)

Location: London (Hybrid Working)

This opportunity is working for a well-established and successful Global Hospitality business with a brilliant brand in the sector and going through a period of sustained growth and site acquisition. You will be a crucial member of the Commercial Finance team, reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance. This unit of the finance team plays a critical role in the strategic agenda and delivery of the growth strategy. The role of the Commercial Finance Analyst will include working with the equity operations team and supporting the integration of a recently acquired portfolio of restaurants. You will be a key stakeholder within the wider cross functional teams, recommending improvements and new initiatives as well as being responsible for reading the performance of in-flight initiatives and developing go forward approvals. This role comes with a very competitive salary, bonus, benefits and a clear path to progression to a Commercial Finance Manager in the future.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead and drive the quarterly store planning process, issuing Sales, Labour and Manager controlled P&L plans
• Business partner with our Operations team responsible for delivering the store plans in the field, identify opportunities for growth and performance improvement
• Weekly performance review – preparation and presentation of trading meetings with C-suite. Diagnose weekly performance and provide insight-led recommendations
• Responsible for determining and recommending initiatives that improve commercial impacts of operational improvements to process flow (forecasting, accuracy, deployment and speed) across the restaurants
• Coordination of the period business review – provide insight into and lead cross functional review for the COO and Operation directors.
• Provide adhoc commercial support on various test and learn initiatives, revenue and margin analysis, competitor analysis
• Build and drive continuous improvements in the budgeting and forecasting models
• Drive innovative communication strategies to facilitate faster and more accurate business decision making

Candidate Requirements:

• ACCA/CIMA/ACCA qualified accountant
• Experience in a multi-site business is preferable
• Excellent data analysis and presentation skills
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with complex and large datasets
• Strong understanding of financial statements and ability to model them
• Analytical, creative thinker, who is detail oriented
• Experience with data analytics visualisation tools e.g. Power BI / Tableau

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 Commercial Finance Analyst position please forward a CV as soon as possible.