Elior Hiring for Financial Controller Job at Manchester, England Full Time

We are recruiting for this key role to support the Senior Teams for Stadia in providing the commercial stewardship of the business, delivering profit & sales growth. This role will offer significant exposure to the operational function across contract catering in the Stadia division and is an opportunity to influence at all levels of the business. The prime objective of the role is to provide commercial analysis and insight, financial reporting and forecasting, and to influence and challenge business decisions in order to maximise business profit.

Key Operational Accountabilities

• Business partnering with the on site operations team
• Consistent weekly reporting sales, gross profit, labour, and overheads for each contract
• Insights on high/low margin products & recommendation to improve profitability
• Focus around purchasing compliance, and identifying opportunities to improve profitability (switch & saves of products/suppliers etc)
• Assess overall finance compliance (cash control, till readings vs. insight etc) and provide recommendations for improvements
• Provide decision support to initiatives and projects supporting delivery of targets through insightful analysis and idea generation
• Providing interpretation and challenge to current & future trading plans
• Prepare the financial planning and budgeting process within timescales
• Support colleagues across the business in developing financial awareness
• Client reports prepared with month financial performance
• Some travel required to sites mainly within Greater Manchester

Key Working Relationships

• On site operations team
• On site finance managers
• Senior operations and group manager for stadia business

• Strong analytical capabilities coupled with successful business partnering
• High attention to detail
• Ability to work on own initiative, effectively prioritise and manage workload, meeting tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills with people at all levels in the organisation
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills – including pivot tables, formulae, lookup tables, ‘if’ statements & comfortable with multi-workbook reporting

This role also comes with 33 days holidays inclusive of bank holidays, life assurance, a company car (including paid travel expenses), and a bonus based on the achievement of business objectives.