Finance Business Partner

Legends/ ASM Global Europe; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Global, a leader in live events, seeks a Financial Business Partner to enhance financial operations at the AO Arena in Manchester. This role focuses on commercial finance analysis, supporting management decisions, and ensuring financial integrity. You'll enjoy a competitive salary, discounted event tickets, and various benefits such as life assurance and health support, all while contributing significantly to a vibrant team dedicated to exceptional performance.

Benefits

Discounted event tickets

25 days annual leave

Life assurance

Pension contributions

Health support including an EAP

Eye care vouchers

Qualifications

• Experience in management of people.
• Ability to represent Finance as a stand-alone representative.
• Good knowledge of processes, systems, and controls.
• Advanced skills in Excel, including formulas and ideally macros.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality financial reporting and analysis to support decision-making.
• Prepare annual departmental budgets and reforecasts.
• Act as a point of contact for venue audits.
• Collaborate with various departments for financial strategy and analysis.

Skills

Management of people

Change management experience

Advanced Excel skills

Processes and systems knowledge

Job description

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We are ASM Global, and we host breath-taking live events at our venues around the globe.Our impressive network of over 350 Stadiums, Arenas, Conference Centres and Theatres have welcomed some of the World’s most exciting Music Artists and Sporting Events. Our vision is to connect the world through inspiration, innovation and imagination to realise the potential of the spaces and places that bring people together.

The Venue

The AO Arena has welcomed over 30million guests and thousands of World-renowned artists since opening its doors in 1997. It has played a vital role in shaping Manchester’s music scene and has supported artists from back-rooms to main stage. With its £50million redevelopment, the new look AO Arena will attract more artists and more fans, for many years to come.

Made in Manchester, Made for Manchester.

About the Role

To act as business partner to the venue GM and management team providing quality MI and supporting the team with commercial finance and analytical input and advice, and to work with the central transactional finance team to produce management accounts from journal stage to monthly packs and detailed forecasting and budgeting.

What we can offer

Hosting events is what we do best, and we want our People to experience that too- enjoy access to discounted tickets to unleash your superfan for all your favourites.

You will work hard at ASM, but you will be rewarded with lots of time to relax and rest with 25 days annual leave

We understand that you have a life outside of work and want to ensure that your loved ones will always be taken care of whilst you’re contributing to our success with our Life Assurance policy.

A healthy contribution of % Pension so that your golden years are spent ticking off the items on your bucket list.

Got a dental bill? Need to book a counselling session? Or even help with Physio costs? With the support of Healthshield; ASM will support with these unexpected costs. For you and any children.

We understand that from time to time you might need a bit of support to get you back to feeling your best, so we have teamed up with AXA Health to provide our people with an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support mental health in the workplace.

We are visionaries: both physically and metaphorically! When you join ASM you will be entitled to eye care vouchers and a contribution towards any glasses you require.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality MI and detailed commercial financial analysis of the operations to support decision making.
• Identify and implement improvements in processes and systems, with the objective of improving controls and efficiencies.
• Attend and actively contribute to venue SMT meetings led by venue General Manger.
• Hold monthly meetings with Department Heads to discuss financial results and forecasts.
• Prepare annual departmental budgets and challenge department heads to achieve targets.
• Prepare monthly reforecasts and prepare monthly forecast pack.
• Prepare monthly packs for monthly Business Review and attend meeting.
• Input into annual business planning process and value up financial impact of initiatives.
• Provide ongoing Finance support on the financial impact of initiatives implemented, especially around the impact of premium and hospitality products.
• Prepare month end journals and process in Finance System.
• Prepare event settlements for all events.
• Prepare show night reports and a weekly performance tracker for all events.
• Where relevant prepare ROI analysis for capex projects that are income generating.
• Act as point of contact for audit of venue and prepare all audit files.
• Responsible for and have control over integrity and accuracy of MI from EPOS and other business systems.
• Provide commercial insight into working capital management through a stronger control framework or improvement in processes.
• Prepare all balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ad hoc project work as directed by UK Finance Director and GM.

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience of management of people.
• Have the gravitas to act as the face of Finance as a ‘stand -alone’ Finance representative.
• Track record of implementation of processes and change management experience.
• Good knowledge of processes, systems and control frameworks.
• Advanced Excel skills including formulas and ideally macros.

Recruitment Process Outlined:

• 1 st Stage- Intro Call with Talent Team
• 2 nd Stage- F2F Meeting with GM and Finance Director

Inclusive Workplace

At ASM Global, we are committed to leading the entertainment industry towards a greener, faster, and more innovative digital future. There’s never been a better time to join our team. We aim to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make a significant impact from day one.

We are committed to active inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunities. This commitment begins with our recruitment and selection process. We welcome discussions about flexible working arrangements.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know in your application. We are dedicated to providing a fair and transparent assessment process and will do our utmost to accommodate your needs.

If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure it is considered. We will continue to review applications on a rolling basis and may close the advert before the closing date.