Finance Operations Manager

Fooditude; Worthing; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

33 days holiday including bank HOLs

Birthday day off

Pension scheme

Employee discount platform

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Fooditude is seeking a Finance Operations Manager to lead AP and AR, reporting to the Head of Finance. The role balances hands-on financial management with team leadership, process improvements, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring efficient and accurate finance operations across the business.

Based in Worthing with occasional travel to our London kitchen and client offices, you will strengthen systems, controls and processes while supporting cost-saving initiatives and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar finance role within an SME environment.
• Experience managing a finance team.
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions.
• Ensure timely processing and payment of supplier invoices.
• Reconcile bank and credit card statements in Sage50 ERP.
• Manage Worthing office operations including health and safety and rota planning.
• Oversee client invoicing and debtor management.
• Support monthly financial reporting and reconciliations.
• Collaborate with operational teams on budgets and purchasing.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Microsoft Office

Analytical skills

Commercial awareness

Attention to detail

Team leadership

Education

Finance/accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACCA)

Tools

Sage 50

Job description

We are looking for a Finance Operations Manager to lead our Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable functions. Reporting into the Head of Finance, you will keep our finance office running smoothly and strengthen our systems, controls and processes behind the business.

At Fooditude, we believe great food starts with great people. Behind every successful client experience is a team of talented individuals working together to keep everything running smoothly, and our Finance team plays a huge part in making that happen.

We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded Finance Operations Manager to join our friendly team in Worthing. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional who enjoys balancing hands‑on financial management with team leadership, process improvement, and cross‑functional collaboration. As our Finance Operations Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring our finance operations run efficiently and accurately across the business.

Whilst based at our Worthing office, our Finance Operations Manager will travel to our London kitchen and client offices a few times per month to collaborate with the onsite teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions
• Ensure the timely processing and payment of supplier invoices
• Reconciliation of our bank and credit card statements to our Sage50 ERP.
• Managing our Worthing office, ensuring adherence to health & safety requirements, office rota planning and general duties to ensure the smooth running of the office.
• Overseeing client invoicing and debtor management
• Supporting monthly financial reporting and account reconciliations
• Working closely with operational teams to monitor purchasing and budgets
• Managing supplier spend reviews and supporting cost‑saving initiatives
• Manage, coach and develop members of the finance team
• Ensuring finance processes are accurate, efficient, and continuously improving
• Building strong relationships across our sites and support functions
• Deputising for the Head of Finance on operational finance matters when required

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is organised, detail-focused, and comfortable taking ownership of multiple priorities. You'll be a natural problem solver who enjoys improving processes and supporting others to succeed.

You'll ideally have:

• A relevant business, finance, or accountancy qualification or equivalent professional experience
• Experience managing a finance team
• Proven progressive experience in a similar finance role within an SME environment
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills
• Strong commercial awareness and analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracyExperience with Sage 50
• Hospitality industry experience would be a bonus, but not essential

The Good Stuff for You

• Competitive Salary package
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays, increasing with length of service
• Time off during Christmas each year
• Paid birthday day off, every year! We also plant a tree each year for your birthday as part of a sustainability initiative
• Day off for volunteering
• Fun socials with your team!
• Company pension scheme
• Employee discount platform - save on travel, gym memberships, refurbished tech and more
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, offering day-to-day support, as well as life coaching, CBT, counselling and more
• Be a part of an award-winning company
• A friendly, supportive and inclusive culture

Why Fooditude?

At Fooditude, our leaders create environments where people can thrive. We're looking for someone who naturally embodies our leadership behaviours and can bring them to life every day. These behaviours centre around trust, ownership, collaboration, support, resilience and professionalism.

Our application process:

• If you are shortlisted, you'll have a phone interview where we'd like to get to know more about you and your motivations for applying to our role
• If successful, you'll attend a face‑to‑face interview with the hiring manager at our office, followed by a short work sample on site.

Fooditude's mission is to make people happy no matter what the working day brings. Not just for our clients, but for our own colleagues too. We believe a diverse mix of minds creates an innovative space. We seek to attract and recruit people who reflect the diverse nature of our clients and communities. We select candidates based on skill, knowledge, qualifications, and experience.

By applying for this position, you are consenting for Fooditude to receive your personal data for the purposes of the job application only. Unfortunately, due to the high number of applications received, we are only able to contact short listed candidates. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 14 days your application has been unsuccessful and under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) your details will be deleted from our records.

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