Accountant- Edgbaston

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Accountant – Edgbaston – 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 long‑standing partnerships with venues and events across sport, entertainment, and conferencing, including Wimbledon, Twickenham, Edgbaston, and Villa Park. At the core of our work is a belief that great food, drink, and service is key to creating legendary experiences.

Every day we’re playing with new flavours, chatting with guests, and using technology to disrupt the food industry.

We have a strong ethical core: sustainability, wellbeing, and D&I are at the heart of what we do. We commit to Net Zero by 2027 and are proud that 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. Visit

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 Heads of Department, working collaboratively with internal functions and external stakeholders. This role involves developing commercial acumen and operational decision‑making skills.

• Business partnering with the GM and HODs to ensure strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities, and supporting operational delivery of budgeted sales, PBIT, margin, and client returns.
• Deliver proactive financial analysis with summarised findings and recommendations for decision making, using dashboards from E15 Insights covering sales and costs.
• Take responsibility for financial controls and processes for the venue—raising invoices, cash reporting, credit card reconciliation, reviewing the PO log, resolving suspense accounts, match‑day ETA’s, monthly R & A process, weekly flash process, and budget process.

• Deliver analysis of key business reports: dashboards, month‑end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts, and other ad‑hoc analysis for monthly/weekly reviews.
• Monitor initiative delivery plans, challenge operational teams, highlight risks to the GM and Finance Business Partner.
• Assist training of operational teams in business reporting and KPIs to improve financial performance.
• Populate monthly balance‑sheet document for review, escalating key risks and opportunities.
• Co‑lead budgeting and forecasting process with the GM, ensuring signed‑off processes with the operational team.
• Attend client finance meetings when required, reporting on client return and addressing contract issues.
• Participate in future planning and strategic decision‑making.
• Present on match days; evenings and weekends are required throughout the season (May to September).

• Collaborate effectively within finance and the operational team.
• Build relationships with key finance stakeholders.
• Support learning of finance apprentices and share knowledge and best practice.
• Possess experience in partnering operations and management accounting, including accounting adjustments and reporting for commercial decision making.
• Demonstrate a proactive and energetic approach.

• Balance competing requirements, managing tight deadlines.
• Be commercially astute and quick to navigate back‑to‑back deadlines throughout the year.
• Pay attention to detail, ensuring accurate and meaningful analysis.
• Adapt to changing environments and circumstances.

• Build relationships with stakeholders in Compass, clients, operations, and finance.
• Communicate orally and in writing with finance and non‑finance audiences concisely and logically.

• Know the details and be data‑numerate.
• Operate comfortably with data to drive decisions, using data warehouses and dashboards.
• Present core drivers/issues to the appropriate audience succinctly.
• Assess opportunities.

• Experience with SAP, Sage, and…