Financial Controller
Restaurant Sector
£80,000
Central London + Working from Home hybrid
This young, international and highly profitable restaurant group has a popular high street brand and has ambitious plans to expand through 2023 and 2024.
As part of a recent restructure, it is now seeking to hire a hands-on and charismatic Financial Controller to own day-to-day finance.
The role includes:
- Partnering the CEO and associated Operational/Commercial heads, playing an active role in working across the business to drive improved top and bottom line performance
- Ensuring a robust financial control environment
- Managing the current outsourced accounting relationship, converting this arrangement to an insourced model in the near future
- Improving the financial processes, ensuring a 'no surprise's reporting structure, creating robust methodologies that allow for continued rapid business scale-up
- Creating high-quality management reporting, delivering forecasting, planning, budgeting and analysis
- Championing improved financial understanding through the business
- Key participation in corporate projects, i.e. new restaurants roll out, fund raising etc
Candidate skills/experience required:
- Qualified accountant with a mix of financial and management accounting experience
- Experience of working in a multi-site consumer facing sector
- Will have partnered non-finance stakeholders
- Confidence in own ability, able to influence stakeholders through a combination of personality and high quality data
- Experience of using Xero
