the ideal candidate:
- An experienced finance professional, ideally from a product-led or FMCG business
- Proven people leadership skills, with experience of leading and developing a team
- 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
- Intermediate or advanced excel skills are essential
- Ability to work under pressure and within tight time frames
- Sage experience preferrable
about us:
itsu is the healthy eating, Asian inspired quick service retail & grocery brand with over 70 stores in the UK and a leading grocery business across Europe and beyond. Renowned for its best-in-class food made fresh in every shop every day, itsu has huge global ambitions with a commitment to continue to open many more stores and intensify the growth of its already thriving grocery arm. With its best-is-class healthy food, latest technology, innovation, and talented workforce, itsu is the future of fast food.
itsu [grocery], which this role falls under, takes the itsu brand into supermarkets, health food stores, online, wholesale and internationally with products such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza & bao, brilliant’broth, rice’noodles & miso’easy to name a few…
D&I statement:
itsu [grocery] is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply for all of our opportunities.
When applying for a role with us, please remove your: full name, name of University/School, address, email address and any photos of you on your CV and covering letter. non-anonymised CVs may not be reviewed.
Scope of the role:
- Providing leadership to the Management Accounting team, driving performance and development
- Overseeing the preparation of management accounts, P&L, balance sheets, 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
- 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
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 (2 days wfh)
- Opportunity to work from abroad
- 50% employee discount in itsu shops
- Free itsu lunch
- Discounts at major retailers
- Salary sacrifice cycle and electric vehicle schemes
- A sizeable training budget to support your ongoing development