Management Accountant

itsu; Carlisle; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthy eating brand in the United Kingdom is seeking a qualified finance professional to oversee management accounts, including P&L and balance sheets. The ideal candidate will have experience in finance, particularly from a product-led or FMCG business, and possess strong Excel skills. This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working options, and numerous employee benefits such as health insurance and extensive training support.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Competitive bonus scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Health insurance

Company pension scheme

Hybrid working (2 days wfh)

Opportunity to work from abroad

50% employee discount in shops

Free lunch

Discounts at major retailers

Training budget

Qualifications

• Experienced finance professional preferably from a product-led or FMCG business.
• Technical proficiency with an emphasis on systems, automation, and efficiency.
• Confidence to influence senior stakeholders and detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Oversee preparation of management accounts including P&L and balance sheets.
• Liaise with department managers for financial support.
• Identify business risks and ensure compliance with financial regulations.

Skills

Experience in finance

Detail-oriented

Strong communication skills

Intermediate Excel skills

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Sage

Job description

Ideal Candidate

• An experienced finance professional, ideally from a product-led or FMCG business
• 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
• Detail-oriented and collaborative, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders
• Confident communicator who can influence across all levels of the business
• Intermediate or advanced excel skills are preferred
• Ability to work under pressure and within tight time frames
• Sage experience preferrable

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.

When applying for a role with us, please remove your: full name, name of University/School, address, email address and any photos of you on your CV and covering letter. non-anonymised CVs may not be reviewed.

Scope of the role

• Overseeing the preparation of management accounts [including chart of accounts], P&L, balance sheets, and other reports for leadership and stakeholders. Including cost centre analysis and reporting.
• COGS, Waste, Inlogs & outlogs [including temp P&L] - P&L & BS analysis
• Liaising with department managers to provide financial support and interpret financial data for non-financial personnel.
• Input into budget and forecasting processes
• Identifying and assessing business risks, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and maintaining financial controls
• Cross train on all other areas of management accounts to ensure there is full holiday and illness cover across the team
• Help the transactional finance team as and when the business requires

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