Finance Business Partner - Hospitality & Restaurants

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in hospitality is seeking a Finance Business Partner to support the Operational Leadership Team. This role involves providing analytical insights, managing budgeting and forecasting, and enhancing business performance through strategic planning. You will collaborate closely with key stakeholders, ensuring optimal decision-making and driving profitability. With a focus on accuracy and creativity, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. Join a company that values your contributions and supports your professional growth.

Benefits

Store and restaurant discount up to 40%

25 days holidays plus birthday off

Subsidised staff restaurant

Opportunities for personal and professional growth

Qualifications

• Proven track record in delivering and creating company reports.
• Experience in multi-unit retail/restaurant environments.

Responsibilities

• Support and provide analytical insight to drive channel contribution.
• Own and deliver budgeting and forecasting for channels.

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint skills

Financial Analysis

Budgeting

Business Intelligence

Leadership

Communication Skills

Multi-tasking

Creative Thinking

Conflict Management

Tools

Power BI

D365

Microsoft DAX

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Finance Business Partner - Hospitality & Restaurants, London

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Hospitality

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Posted: 28.04.2025

Expiry Date: 12.06.2025

Job Description

Role Purpose: To support the Operational Leadership Team and wider business through analytical insight; commercial business decision support; provision of relevant, timely information to ensure informed and ‘optimal’ decisions are made; to provide commercial challenge to channel owners to help drive improved contribution, highlighting risks and opportunities to plans and forecast as they arise and help drive mitigation/exploitative action, planning & forecasting of channel sales and cost lines.

Reports to: Head of Commercial Trading

Key interfaces: CFO, Commercial Finance Director, Operational Leadership Team, Executive Leadership Team, BI Developer, Hospitality

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Analysis & Report
   • Support, challenge and provide analytical insight - analyse current and past trends in KPIs highlighting commercial opportunities and risks to revenue, margin, costs thereby driving channel contribution and profitability. Ensure KPIs remain appropriate for measurement of performance.
   • Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management and executives for decision making purposes.
2. Budgeting & Forecasting
   • Own/deliver the budget, financial forecasting and operating plans and process for your channels.
   • Ensure smooth sign off with relevant directors.
   • Monitor performance against budget/forecast with relevant stakeholders on a monthly basis and feedback highlights to the finance team via the monthly P&L meeting.
   • Own payroll budget.
3. Business Partnering
   • Own/deliver business reporting for your channels that is fit for purpose – using Business Intelligence Tool and Dashboard reports.
   • Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies.
   • Prepare presentations to Exec Board and Senior Management Team.
   • Coach non-financial managers in understanding information and using analysis to manage the business.
   • Develop close working relationships with key contacts to enable the business to understand planned activities and their impact.
   • Prioritize customer support accordingly and actively seek feedback to monitor how information provided has contributed to effective decision making.
4. Strategic Planning
   • Oversee 5 Year Plan from a commercial finance perspective ensuring all project benefits are built into subsequent plans/forecast. Develop tracking mechanisms to measure improvements and that performance against projects are monitored with learnings built into future projects.
   • Gain insight from market metrics and attend conferences and third-party events where possible to expand network and gain further understanding of market conditions.
5. Risk & Ops Management and mitigation
   • Manage risks & ops through monthly performance cycle with business partners & stake holders.
   • Keep a record of risks & ops from sales through to trading profit, working through challenges with relevant stakeholders and plans to mitigate risks.
6. Ad-Hoc analysis & projects
   • Evaluate new business proposals, support decision-making through commercial analysis of initiatives along with sensitivities/best case & worse case scenarios. Evaluate from an ROI and IRR perspective to ensure proposal meets company criteria and are aligned with business priorities.
   • Perform ad hoc analysis as required from stakeholders.
   • Ensure the accuracy of data and analysis provided by the team and the ability to produce reports and data in a timely manner.

Role Specific Criteria

We expect the successful candidate to have the following skills and experience:

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, ability to write / use macros, index matches, if formula, pivots etc.
• Ability to develop data platforms and commercial reports. Proven track record in delivering and creating company reports.
• Experience in multi-unit retail/restaurant environments.
• Strong leadership experience.
• Highest standards of accuracy and precision.
• Highly organized and able to multi-task at speed.
• Articulate with excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to think creatively, highly-driven and self-motivated.
• Use of Business intelligence platform, such as Power BI, D365 or similar tools (desired).
• Ability to manage objections and conflicts effectively (desired).
• Experience of Microsoft DAX (desired).
• Experience of D365 (desired).

We are committed to developing your career and nurturing your talent, regardless of age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation. We respect and embrace each other's differences, to create a truly inclusive environment.

In the last year alone, our people have been recognised and celebrated, winning awards for their outstanding contributions to Retail, Technology, Global Hospitality & Tourism, Visual Merchandising & Display, Customer Service and Local Community Awards.

In return, we offer:

• A generous store and restaurant discount of up to 40%
• 25 days holidays (excluded bank holidays) and an extra day off for your birthday
• A fantastic subsidised staff restaurant which uses Fortnum’s ingredients
• A range of opportunities to develop and grow personally and professionally