Group Financial Controller in City of Westminster

The Role

As Group Financial Controller you will oversee all financial operations for MJMK Restaurants, ensuring the business continues to thrive, and is ready for growth. Reporting directly to the Group Finance Director, you'll play a key role in shaping the finance function to be best-in-class, providing valuable insight across our 7 London locations and support office, and being a pivotal part of the team as we open new restaurants.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end financial ownership for all MJMK restaurants, including owning and maintaining the ledgers to a best in class standard.
• Ownership of all month end processes including AP, cash reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations and month end journal postings.
• End-to-end ownership of payroll management across the group, working closely with our outsourced payroll provider, Sona, to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time, statutory obligations (PAYE, NI, pensions, apprenticeship levy) are met, and payroll data is fully reconciled to the ledgers each month.
• Liaise with our external troncmaster (WMT) to manage the tronc scheme, ensuring distributions are administered correctly, queries are resolved promptly, and the scheme remains compliant with HMRC requirements and the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act.
• Ensure tronc and payroll journals are posted accurately to the ledgers and fully reconciled each period, with appropriate controls over wages, tronc, service charge, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Manage, coach and develop a team of two; Accounts Payable Manager, and Management Accountant.
• Deliver timely and accurate monthly management accounts including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow and Capex spend analysis with supporting insight on variances to Budget.
• Maintain weekly cash flow reports and forecasts.
• Manage the annual audit process.
• Propose and own the implementation and ongoing management of a new finance system, ensuring high quality and robust financial information is delivered.
• Champion the use of AI across the finance function, actively identifying and implementing opportunities to drive efficiency, automate manual processes, and enhance the quality and speed of financial reporting and insight.
• Delivering financials in compliance with all relevant UK and International accounting standards.
• Develop a thorough understanding of underlying business processes, providing proactive advice on improving them and enhancing profitability.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment with effective finance processes and write and own all Finance SOPs.
• Ensure legal and tax compliance is maintained, including VAT, payroll tax and corporation tax.
• Input to the monthly board pack.

What we're looking for

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with at least 5 years of finance experience within hospitality.
• Proven track record as a Financial Controller, and experience of scaling finance functions in an expanding multi-site hospitality business.
• Hands‑on experience managing payroll and tronc, including working with external troncmasters/payroll providers.
• A genuine enthusiasm for AI and emerging technologies, with a track record (or strong appetite) for applying these tools to improve finance processes and ways of working.
• An exceptional attention to detail and first class presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of hospitality and its financial challenges.
• Passion for the restaurant industry and a commercial mindset.

At MJMK Restaurants, we offer you:

• 50% discount across all MJMK restaurants
• Up to £500 team referral bonus
• Opportunity to develop your career with MJMK Restaurants
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after your first year
• An anniversary scheme to reward loyalty each year you are with us
• Extra day’s holiday every year you’re with us, up to 5 extra days
• Wide range of benefits from Hospitality Action - Including: mental health & well‑being support, Benefits Hub with retail discounts, wellness podcast, nutrition‑focused recipes, digital gym, mindfulness meditation, as well as Employee Assistance Program
• Company sick pay after one year of service

About MJMK Restaurants

MJMK Restaurants own and operate a collection of award‑winning restaurants. Founded in 2018 by lifelong friends Jake Kasumov and Marco Mendes, our journey began with Casa do Frango. In 2020, we partnered with chef patron Santiago Lastra to open KOL, a restaurant in Marylebone celebrating Mexican cuisine with British ingredients. KOL has since earned a Michelin Star and been named one of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. In 2024 saw two new ventures: Fonda, a contemporary Mexican concept in Mayfair – our second collaboration with Santiago Lastra – and AngloThai in Marylebone, a debut restaurant from husband‑and‑wife John and Desiree Chantarasak, blending Thai flavours with British ingredients. Within three months of opening, AngloThai earned a Michelin star. In the 2025 National Restaurant Awards, AngloThai was named The Square Opening of the Year and ranked 7th in the Top 100 list, followed by KOL at number 50. Luso, a contemporary Portuguese restaurant in Fitzrovia, opened in September 2025. We’re building ambitious restaurant brands with a focus on quality, creativity and guest experience - and we’re just getting started.