Finance Manager in London

Our client, a fast-paced and high growth company, is the UK’s leading Hospitality and Leisure Group. Their business is fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and ambitious — with a focus on growth, operational excellence, and delivering exceptional guest experiences.

The Role: Our client is looking for a technically strong and commercially minded Finance Manager to join their Group Finance team. This is a pivotal mid-senior role responsible for leading the day-to-day finance operations, overseeing all aspects of financial and management accounting, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of group reporting. You will lead two Management Accountants and partner closely with Operations, Marketing, and the CFO to produce accurate, timely insight across their portfolio of 44 trading venues. You’ll be the heartbeat of the monthly reporting cycle — ensuring clarity, accuracy, and meaningful analysis that drives business results. This is an exceptional opportunity for a Finance Manager who loves management accounts, thrives in fast-paced industry environments (hospitality experience a strong advantage), and wants to make a tangible impact in a growing multi-brand group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management Accounting & Commercial Insight

• Own the monthly management accounts process end-to-end, ensuring accurate P&Ls for all sites and group entities.
• Produce insightful variance analysis, commentary, and actionable recommendations for operational teams.
• Partner with GMs, Ops Directors and the CFO to understand drivers of performance and identify margin/profit improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards for sites, brands and group-level reporting.
• Lead the annual budgeting process, site-level cost reviews, and rolling reforecasts.
• Support business cases for refurbishments, new openings, and strategic initiatives.

• Ensure core balance sheet controls and reconciliations are maintained across the team.
• Lead the preparation of year-end financial statements in line with FRS 102 and IFRS16.
• Manage the annual audit process, liaising directly with external auditors.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of VAT, Corporation Tax, PAYE, and other HMRC submissions.
• Maintain and strengthen internal financial controls, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and group policies.

• Take ownership of weekly cashflow forecasting and cash management processes.
• Monitor working capital, supplier payments, and bank reconciliations, ensuring sufficient liquidity across the group.
• Identify and implement opportunities to optimise cash management and financial efficiency.

• Line-manage and develop two Management Accountants, providing guidance, mentoring, and clear progression pathways.
• Support the upskilling of the wider finance team and encourage a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.

• Champion process automation and efficiency improvements across financial and operational systems (e.g. Business Central, POS, payroll, and banking platforms).
• Collaborate with site and head-office teams to streamline financial workflows and reporting accuracy.

About You:

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) with at least 3 years’ post-qualification experience.
• At least 2-3 years’ experience in industry, ideally with exposure to hospitality, leisure, retail, or other multi-site businesses.
• Strong management accounts background — month-end, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting.
• Confident partnering with non-finance stakeholders at all levels.
• Hands-on, proactive, and comfortable rolling up your sleeves in a busy environment.
• Strong Excel and systems skills (Business Central, Xero, POS or similar an advantage).
• A natural commercial thinker — focused on insight, performance and helping the business make better decisions.
• Proactive, hands-on, and organised — comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced business.

What’s In It For You:

• Competitive salary £70,000–£75,000 (Negotiable for the perfect candidate)
• Hybrid working – 3 days per week in their Soho HQ
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Pension scheme and other group benefits

This is a chance to play a key role in one of the UK’s most exciting hospitality growth stories. For further details on this role and other jobs, please submit your CV to Adam Curtis of ACS Recruitment Consultancy.