Commercial Finance Analyst - Global Restaurant and Hospitality Business (Multisite)

Role: Commercial Finance Analyst - Global Restaurant and Hospitality Business (Multisite)

Location: Central London

This opportunity is working for a well-established and successful Global Hospitality business with a brilliant brand in the sector and going through a period of sustained growth and site acquisition. You will be a crucial member of the Finance team, reporting into the Finance Director. This unit of the finance team plays a critical role in financial management of the business and delivery of the growth strategy. The role of the Commercial Finance Analyst will include working with the development and acquisitions team in supporting the delivery of strategic objectives, leveraging data and insight to drive the businesses commercial ambitions and increase the restaurant footprint. This role comes with a very competitive salary, study supports, benefits and a clear path to progression to a Commercial Finance Manager in the future.

Role Responsibilities:

• Partnering with the acquisitions team to develop and build out the businesses UK market plan, supporting acquisition managers to assess opportunities for new site openings
• Develop and produce accurate and timely monthly forecasts for multiple sites
• Partner with and support the site leaders, site finance team and senior finance business partner with financial modelling, project reviews and internal business case
• Ownership of Restaurant P&L and DCF Modelling to the business invest in viable assets
• Groupe overheads forecast and reporting, working with key stakeholders on clarity of cost base and impact on the different sites
• Provide ad hoc report to the wider commercial finance team
• Build and drive continuous improvements in the budgeting and forecasting models
• Drive innovative communication strategies to facilitate faster and more accurate business decision making

Candidate Requirements:

• ACCA/CIMA/ACCA qualified accountant
• Advanced Excel experience
• Experience in a multi-site business is preferable
• Excellent data analysis and presentation skills
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with complex and large datasets
• Strong understanding of financial statements and ability to model them
• Analytical, creative thinker, who is detail oriented
• Willingness to implement process improvement
• Experience with data analytics visualisation tools e.g. Power BI / Tableau

Company Information

Wayman Finance is a specialist recruitment agency with over 20 years’ experience within the Finance field. We’ve worked hard to establish our reputation with our clients as one of the most reliable Finance and Accounting agencies in London through our core values of honesty and customer excellence.

Application

To be considered for this Commercial Finance Analyst position please forward a CV as soon as possible