About Us:
At itsu, we're passionate about making healthy eating exciting, accessible, and affordable. As an Asian-inspired food brand, we've grown to over 70 stores across the UK, while building a thriving grocery business that reaches customers across Europe and beyond.
Known for our fresh, high-quality food prepared daily in every shop, we're on an ambitious growth journey. With plans to expand our store estate, accelerate our grocery presence, and continue investing in innovation, technology, and our people, we're shaping the future of healthy fast food.
itsu [ grocery ], where this role sits, extends the much-loved itsu brand beyond our shops and into supermarkets, health food retailers, online channels, wholesale partners, and international markets. Our growing product range includes customer favourites such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza and bao, brilliant'broth, rice'noodles, and miso'easy, bringing the taste and quality of itsu into homes around the world.
Joining itsu means becoming part of a fast-paced, innovative business with big ambitions, a strong culture, and a shared mission to help people eat beautifully every day.
About the role:
As a Management Accountant you will be a detail-oriented and commercially minded playing a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting, insightful analysis, and strategic support to drive business performance.
- The preparation of Management Accounts, P&L, Balance Sheet, and other reports for senior leadership and stakeholders, including cost centre analysis and reporting
- COGS, Waste, Inlogs & Outlogs (including Temp P&L) - P&L & BS analysis
- Liaising with department managers to provide financial support and interpret financial data for non-financial personnel
Key Role Responsibilities:
- Input into budget and forecast processes
- Identifying and assessing business risks, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and maintaining financial controls
- Cross train on all other areas of management accounts to ensure full holiday and sickness cover across the team
- Help the Transactional Finance team as and when the business requires
The ideal candidate will have:
- An experienced, qualified CIMA / ACCA / ACA, finance professional, ideally from a product-led or FMCG business
- Technically strong, process-driven, and passionate about systems, automation, and efficiency
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, able to build structure and controls under pressure
- Detail-oriented and collaborative, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders
- Confident communicator who can influence across all levels of the business
- Advanced excel skills are essential
- Ability to work under pressure and within tight time frames
- Sage 200 experience preferrable
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Competitive Bonus Scheme
- 25 days holiday + Bank holidays (two bank holidays are interchangeable for other religious holidays)
- Health Insurance
- Company Pension Scheme
- Hybrid Working module: This can vary by department, with some operating on a 3-day onsite/2-day WFH model and others on a 4-day onsite/1-day WFH. Opportunity to work from abroad 2 weeks of the year.
- 50% employee discount in itsu shops
- Free itsu lunch EVERY DAY !
- Discounts at major retailers
- Salary sacrifice cycle and electric vehicle schemes
- Development & Growth opportunities
At itsu [grocery], everyone’s taste matters- and so does who’s behind it. We celebrate diversity and are an equal opportunities employer. Applications from all backgrounds are encouraged. If you need support or adjustments to apply, we’ll happily accommodate.