Transactional Finance Manager

itsu; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthy eating brand in Greater London is seeking an experienced finance professional to manage and mentor the transactional finance team. The ideal candidate will ensure accurate records for audits, oversee invoicing processes, and contribute to cash flow forecasting. Offering a competitive salary, health insurance, and hybrid working options, this role is perfect for those looking to grow within a fast-paced environment focused on systems and efficiency.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health insurance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

50% employed discount in itsu shops

Qualifications

• Experienced finance professional from a product-led or FMCG business.
• Technically strong and passionate about systems and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor the transactional finance team.
• Prepare and file quarterly VAT returns.
• Ensure accurate records and clean audit trails.

Skills

Excel

Communication

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

Sage

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, accounts customers and bank reconciliations at month-end.
• Prepare 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% employed 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