Accountant- Edgebaston

Location Accountant
- Edgebaston-Up to £45k

Levy UK&I is a vibrant and exciting sector of Compass Group, the world’s largest catering company. We work at some of the greatest venues in the world, providing catering and hospitality services. We are proud to have a wealth of long‑standing partnerships with venues and events across sport, entertainment, and conferencing. This includes the likes of Wimbledon, Twickenham, Edgbaston, and Villa Park.

We have a strong ethical core. Sustainability, wellbeing, and D&I is at the heart of what we do. We are committed to being Net Zero by 2027 and we are proud to say all our team members are at or above the Real Living Wage or London Living Wage. We are official partners of the British Paralympic Association.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Levy for a finance professional to support a venue within the Stadia subsector. The candidate will business partner the venue General Manager and their Heads of Department, which involves all aspects of a partnering role, developing skills in working collaboratively with the client, and internally across functions and other stakeholders.

• Business partnering with the GM and Heads of Department ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities. The aim will be to support ops in delivering budgeted sales, PBIT and margin as well as delivering agreed returns for clients.
• Delivering pro‑active financial analysis with summarised findings and recommendations to support decision making. This will involve making full use of the latest dashboards from E15 Insights covering sales and costs.
• Take responsibility for the financial controls and processes for the venue, which includes raising invoices, cash reporting, credit card reconciliation, reviewing the PO Log, suspense account clear downs, match day ETA’s, monthly R&A process, weekly flash process and budget process.

• Deliver analysis of key business reporting such as dashboards, month end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts and other ad‑hoc analysis to be discussed at monthly/weekly reviews.
• Monitoring initiative delivery plans, challenging operational teams and where there is a risk to achievement, highlighting to GM and FBP.
• Assist in training of operational teams in the use of business reporting and KPIs to understand and improve their financial performance.
• Populating monthly balance sheet document for review, escalating key risks and opportunities to GM & FBP.
• Be responsible along with the GM for the overseeing of the budgeting and forecasting process for the venue. Ensuring there is joined up and signed off process with the operational team.
• Attend client finance meetings when required - reporting on their client return and dealing with any issues within the contract.
• Be a part of future planning and strategic decision‑making process.
• Present on match days, therefore working evenings and weekends will be required throughout the season (May to September).

• Working effectively as part of a team – both within finance and as part of the operational team.
• Building relationships with key finance stakeholders.
• Support the learning of finance apprentices within the team and share knowledge/best practice.
• Experience in partnering operations.
• Experience of management accounting inclusive of accounting adjustments, producing reports/analysis to support commercial decision making.
• Pro‑active and energetic approach.

• There are a lot of competing requirements – need to be able to balance time and achieve tight deadlines.
• Commercially astute and quick to work through the many deadlines required back‑to‑back through the year.
• Attention to detail – ensuring the results and analysis presented is accurate and meaningful.
• Ability to adapt to changing environments & circumstances.

• Able to build relationships with stakeholders (in Compass and with clients, Ops and Finance) in the right way – to be able to engage, interact and challenge in a way that gets the right outcome for the business.
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