Senior Finance Manager

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 generationSupport 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.