Senior Finance Manager, F&B, London, 70k-75k DOE

Are you a commercially driven finance professional who thrives on making a difference? We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join a dynamic and high-performing finance team within a leading UK-based organisation.

This is more than a reporting role — it's about driving performance, supporting people, and influencing decision-making in a business that puts care first.

This role is perfect for a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and a passion for driving business performance.

You’ll play a key part in financial planning, forecasting, and decision-making, partnering closely with operations and leadership to maximise profitability and efficiency

Experience in the catering, hospitality, or FMCG industry is a must for this role.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Business partnering with the Sales team and the Operations team.
• Provide decision support to initiatives and projects supporting delivery of targets through insightful analysis and idea generation
• Support colleagues across the business in developing financial awareness.

• Providing interpretation and challenge to current & future trading plans.
• Ownership of the sales team reporting mechanism tracking sales pipeline, contract retention and building strategic insights for sales team to deliver on pipeline.
• Supporting the sales team in new business case evaluations, ensuring all proposals are commercially evaluated and vigorously challenged, including post investment reviews.
• Delivery of key business reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, with exposure to Board level presentations.
• Prepare the financial planning and budgeting process within timescales.

Qualifications

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified (ideally with 3 years min PQE).
• Strong analytical capabilities coupled with successful business partnering.
• Excellent communication skills with people at all levels in the organisation.
• Demonstrable experience of influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work on own initiative, effectively prioritise and manage workload, meeting tight deadlines.
• High attention to detail.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills – including pivot tables, formulae, lookup tables, 'if' statements & comfortable with multi-workbook reporting.