Are you an ambitious Finance professional who is looking for that next step in your career, in a role that will offer the opportunity to look beyond the numbers?  If you are a Qualified Accountant looking for an exciting new challenge then we have a great opportunity for you as a Finance Manager, working within our well established Brand Finance team.

This exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager requires an individual who is commercially focused, responsible for providing financial management and analysis to your aligned brand operations teams and stakeholders. You will share proactive and value added insight into all areas of performance and will play an influential role as part of the Brand Executive team.

As Finance Manager, you will report into the Divisional Head of Finance. Joining a focused and innovative wider Brand Finance team, working at the home of hospitality (our head office), you may not be serving our guests, but your support will put smiles on our guests and teams faces. This is the place where we get creative, train our teams and crunch our numbers. We’re all about having fun and creating moments to remember across the nation, our head office is no different. 

You’ll be well rewarded…

• Company Car
• Office Flexible working; to fit around the other important things in life  
• Annual Bonus Scheme – We’re all about rewarding the hard work everybody puts in
• Private medical plan- to help keep you safe and secure 
• Love eating out? You'll love it even more with a massive 33% discount across all our brands, so whether its date night at Miller & Carter or family roast at Toby Carvery we’ve got you covered.  What’s more, you can also choose FIVE of your nearest and dearest and sign them up to 20% family and friend’s discount.

On top of all this, we offer a pension, 26 days paid holiday; friends & family discount, high-street shopping discounts; and we even give you free shares! There's also a free employee helpline- to support you with whatever life throws at you.

The Opportunity – Finance Manager, Brand Finance

Your role and responsibilities will be challenging and varied, including the following: -

• Providing financial support and analysis to Operations in the relevant brand focusing on performance analysis, providing insight and influencing brand performance
• Delivering specific technical analysis as required, including margin, pricing, and productivity
• Preparing and delivering aligned brand plans, brand budgets and forecasts
• Leading the brand profit reviews with Operations Directors, with focus on underperformance and any recommendations of improvements
• As an integral member of the Brand Executive Committee you will be responsible for supporting with evaluating, reviewing and challenging proposed initiatives within the brand, including capital expenditure proposals, range change, menu change, promotional activity, and brand evolution.
• Ensuring changes to the brand economic models are forecasted and well communicated

Just like our brands, our teams are diverse. What we’d like to see from you: -

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with 2 years’ post qualification experience in a relevant role
• Proven stakeholder management expertise with excellent communication skills; the ability to translate financial information to colleagues across our organisation is key
• The ability to assume full ownership of responsibilities, from influencing stakeholders through to making a positive impact whilst challenging analysis of performance 
• Able to exercise sound commercial judgement
• Excellent analytical skills, with a keen eye for detail
• Self-starter, with a proactive approach