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Finance Lead
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: £67,000 per annum
We're looking for an experienced Finance Lead to join our Workplace Hospitality business, supporting a diverse, multi-site corporate portfolio across the UK and Ireland. This is a commercially focused leadership role where you'll partner with senior operational stakeholders to drive financial performance, influence strategic decisions and lead a high-performing finance team.
Managing a complex portfolio that includes workplace dining, hospitality, vending and major transformation projects, you'll play a key role in turning financial insight into commercial action. From budgeting and forecasting to business cases and investment appraisals, you'll help shape the future of a high-profile account during an exciting period of growth and change.
What you'll be doing
- Lead all aspects of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting.
- Partner with operational leaders to provide commercial insight and support strategic decision-making.
- Identify financial risks and opportunities, delivering clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Develop business cases for investment, mobilisation, tenders and commercial initiatives.
- Drive working capital performance, financial controls and balance sheet management.
- Monitor performance improvement initiatives and challenge delivery where required.
- Lead, coach and develop the finance team while collaborating across regional and global business functions.
About you
You'll be a commercially minded finance professional with a passion for business partnering and leading teams in a fast-paced operational environment.
You'll have:
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification (or equivalent experience).
- Strong management accounting, budgeting and forecasting experience.
- A proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving commercial performance.
- Excellent analytical, communication and leadership skills.
- Experience managing or developing finance teams. xgikmsk
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with financial reporting systems.
Experience within hospitality, catering, facilities management, retail or another multi-site operational busi
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