Transactional Finance Manager

itsu; Carlisle; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthy eating brand in the UK is seeking an experienced finance professional to manage the transactional finance team. This role involves overseeing invoices, month-end reconciliations, and providing financial reports. The ideal candidate has a strong finance background and excellent Excel skills. This position offers competitive salary, hybrid work, and various perks including health insurance and training budget.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Competitive bonus scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Health insurance

Company pension scheme

Hybrid working (2 days wfh)

Employee discount

Free lunch

Discounts at major retailers

Training budget

Qualifications

• 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 environment while being detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor the transactional finance team.
• Control records and clean audit trails for the year-end financial audit.
• Develop and provide monthly reporting on expense management.

Skills

Experience in finance

Strong communication skills

Intermediate or advanced Excel skills

Detail-oriented

Sage experience

Job description

The 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 preferred

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

• Manage, develop, and mentor the transactional finance team.
• Keep accurate records, control reports and clean audit trails for the year-end financial audit
• Process and oversee all purchase and overheads invoices and expenses posting
• Be key point of contact for transactional queries from suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Develop and provide monthly reporting on expense management, aged receivables and overdue payables
• Ensure AP & AR-related general ledger accounts finalisation, to be reviewed with FC on a monthly basis
• Provide input on monthly cash flow forecasting, as required.
• Prepare payment runs
• Supervise the supplier statements, account customers and bank reconciliations at month-end
• Prepare of balance sheet reconciliations, to be reviewed with FC on a monthly basis
• Assist the FC in continuously improving the controls environment
• Prepare and file quarterly VAT returns
• Create and maintain manuals for finance procedures
• Ownership for the debit note process

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