Finance Manager

A Finance Manager position, managing a team of 5 and working within a leading hospitality company based in London. This role is a 12 month FTC with possibility to become permanent. Offering 3 days in office, 2 days WFH.

• Responsibilities:
• Overall responsibility for delivery of month end closing reports and
• supporting Group consolidation – ensuring financial reports are prepared in a
• timely and accurate manner.
•  Specific ownership of closing P&Ls for Central Overheads and communicating
• performance vs Budget to Head of Department.
•  Driving clarity of reporting of spend on CAPEX projects. Ensuring that finance
• CAPEX team address operational colleague questions and issues.
•  Work closely with local property and regional team to ensure that all financial
• transactions and records are in accordance with applicable local accounting
• standards and requirements.
•  Ensure Group accounting policies and procedures are complied with at all
• times.
•  Responsible for monthly performance reporting and provide suitable financial
• information to enable senior management to make sound business decisions.
•  Business partner, review and advise on all operating and capital budgets and
• business plans, and ensure soundness of financial forecasts, plans and
• assumptions.
•  Provide overview of controls around bi-monthly and adhoc bank payments.
•  Responsible for cashflow forecasting, and central cost centre accounting,
• budgeting and forecasting.
•  Manage and deliver on all compliance requirements e.g. VAT returns and tax
• filing, insurance renewal and cover, ONS questionaires.
•  Support on external and internal audit process for a timely completion of the
• audit and implementation of recommendations.
•  Review and approve payrolls and related payroll taxes.
•  Build relationships and work with various internal and external stakeholders
• including landlords, insurance brokers, banks etc.
•  Responsible for integrity of reconciliation for various systems including
• giftcards, payment gateways etc
•  Responsible for reviewing monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations and updating
• a risks and opportunities schedule.
• Streamline the month end reporting process
•  Responsible for ad-hoc financial reports as required by Senior Management
• across the business.
•  Support drive automation of process including the use for PowerBI and Digital
• Workers.
•  Support implementation of BEPS and CVaR reporting
• Managerial/
• supervisory role
•  Manage, Coach and Advise all 5 reports of the central finance
• department including agreeing annual KPIs, providing regular performance
• feedback, performing year end appraisals.
•  Ensure all finance staff are equipped with required tools to be able to fulfil
• their duties.
•  Drive team member engagement.
•  Active participation in the professional development of central finance team.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates