Assistant Finance Manager

As an Assistant Finance Manager in Restaurant Associates, you will perform an instrumental role helping to deliver financial support to Deloitte Contracts nationally. Through effective business partnering, the role will continually improve cost effectiveness, onsite processes and add value to commercial activities., PURPOSE: Commercial Support

• Business Partner key stakeholders (financial and non-financial) ensuring strong commercial and operational decision-making, managing financial risks and opportunities
• Attend and actively contribute to the designated site and client meetings
• Delivering proactive and ad-hoc financial analysis with summarised findings to support business unit decision making
• Understand and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from volumetric and other contract mechanisms - and ongoing business performance
• Understand, highlight and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from balance sheet maintenance
PERFORMANCE
• Deliver analysis of crucial business reporting such as month-end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, and other ad-hoc analyses to be discussed at weekly/monthly reviews.
• Ensuring weekly and monthly unit Bookwork (Nexus) for London Campus in a timely fashion.
• Preparing weekly Profit & Loss with variance analysis; working with the operational team on forecasting month-end position and then finalising corporate weekly Flash.
• Maintenance of the site's stock sheets to reflect accurate stock values. Call out any unique stock variances.
• Conducting the month-end "Review and Amend" process, preparing and processing all Journals per set accounting timetable.
• Compiling various client performance dashboards, headcounts, etc.
• Liaising with the Santander Finance team, submitting monthly invoices, cost transfers, client-specific reports in a timely fashion.
• Processing manual supplier invoices and statement reconciliation, accruals.
• Production and submission of monthly client financial pack along with other appendices and reconciliation backups.
• Assist in operational training teams in the use of business reporting to understand and improve their financial performance
• Monitoring the initiative delivery plan, challenging operational teams where there is a risk to achievement and highlighting to senior stakeholders
PEOPLE: Relationship Management
• Working effectively as part of a team
• Building relationships with multiple key stakeholders
  
  Part-qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or QBE with varied experience in accounting roles
• Industry experience gained within a multi-site, multi-contract complex organisation
• Experience in management accounting inclusive of accounting adjustments, producing reports/analysis to support commercial decision making
• Analytical and with a high level of attention to detail
Desirable:
• Experience in training and mentoring junior team members
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Experience with SAP and Power BI as analysis and reporting tools
Performance Standards
• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically - to both finance and non-finance people
• Pro-active and energetic approach
• Ability to analyse and evaluate information concisely
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence internal and external parties
• Self-motivated with a capacity to effectively plan and organise own work
• Ability to take on a broad spectrum of work under pressure and to deliver in agreed timescales
Leadership behaviours
• Communication - ability to manage, develop and lead peers
• Can Do - Finds new / quicker ways of meeting goals, shows conviction in own judgement and decisions, responds quickly under pressure and overcomes hurdles to achieve targets
• Share Success - Provides task-related feedback to do the job effectively and provides excellent service. Delegates tasks to develop others
• Passion for Quality - Sets demanding performance expectations, sets priorities to maximise benefits, and tracks the commercial implications of a situation in a step-by-step way
• Win through Teamwork - Pursues friendly relationships with colleagues and clients, makes contact with colleagues across the organisation and shares own knowledge and insight and displays a high level of energy and commitment to the role and organisation
• Embrace Diversity - Listens to others and values their contributions, receptive to new ideas and builds on them, and acts in an ethical and socially responsible manner
  
  Restaurant Associates provides brilliant hospitality through our food, drink and services. We work with our partners and collaborate with our clients to achieve great things together.Every day, our teams of passionate hospitality professionals strive for excellence in delivering employee dining and hospitality to some of the UK's leading workplace as well as inspiring exceptional experiences in iconic cultural and heritage destinations.