Financial Controller

itsu; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthy eating brand in London seeks a Financial Controller to deliver monthly Group accounts, manage the year-end process, and oversee the finance team. The ideal candidate has experience in a product-led or FMCG environment, is ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified, and is proficient in Excel. This role offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme, health insurance, and hybrid working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Competitive bonus scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Health insurance

Company pension scheme

Hybrid working

50% employee discount

Free lunch

Training budget

Qualifications

• Experience as a Financial Controller or senior finance professional in a product-led or FMCG business.
• Technically strong and process-driven.
• Comfortable in fast-paced and high-growth environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver monthly Group accounts including balance sheet and cash flow.
• Manage the year-end process including audits and tax matters.
• Oversee the management accounts team and reporting to Board.

Skills

Financial analysis

Excel and modelling skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent

Job description

The Ideal Candidate

• An experienced Financial Controller or senior finance professional, ideally from a product-led or FMCG business
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
• Technically strong, process-driven, and passionate about systems, automation, and efficiency
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, able to build structure and controls under pressure
• Commercially astute with excellent Excel and modelling skills
• Detail-oriented and collaborative, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders
• Confident communicator who can influence across all levels of the business

About Us

itsu is the healthy eating, Asian inspired quick service retail & grocery brand with over 70 stores in the UK and a leading grocery business across Europe and beyond. Renowned for its best-in-class food made fresh in every shop every day, itsu has huge global ambitions with a commitment to continue to open many more stores and intensify the growth of its already thriving grocery arm. With its best-is-class healthy food, latest technology, innovation, and talented workforce, itsu is the future of fast food.

itsu [grocery], which this role falls under, takes the itsu brand into supermarkets, health food stores, online, wholesale and internationally with products such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza & bao, brilliant’broth, rice’noodles & miso’easy to name a few…

D&I statement

itsu [grocery] is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply for all of our opportunities.

Scope of the role

• Delivery of monthly Group accounts (itsu [grocery] and subsidiary accounts), including balance sheet and cash flow
• Ownership of the year-end process, including the external audit, all tax-related matters, and production of the statutory accounts (for itsu [grocery] and subsidiary)
• Management, mentoring, and growing of the AR, AP and management accounts teams
• Management of month-end reporting to Board and Executive Team, overseeing the management accounts team, including detail shop and cost reporting, monthly reviews with budget holders and budget / forecast setting
• Develop and improve systems, processes, and internal controls to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and profitability within a growing business
• Managing the relationship with key external stakeholders: investors, banks, insurers, and other key providers
• Being responsible for all Taxation and VAT matters

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Competitive bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (two bank holidays are interchangeable for other religious holidays)
• Health insurance
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working (2 days wfh)
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• 50% employee discount in itsu shops
• Free itsu lunch
• Discounts at major retailers
• Salary sacrifice cycle and electric vehicle schemes
• A sizeable training budget to support your ongoing development