Assistant Finance Manager- NEC

Assistant Finance Manager – NEC, Birmingham

Full-Time / Permanent. Salary: £40k+ with excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more.

This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted partner to the General Manager and Heads of Department across the entire warehouse operation. You'll take on a visible and influential position, building strong relationships with both client‑side teams and internal stakeholders, while driving collaboration across the business. Through effective partnering and commercial insight, you'll play a key role in enhancing service delivery, improving cost efficiency, and supporting the contract through an exciting mobilisation phase, helping to shape its future success from the outset.

• Effective business partnering with the onsite operations team, ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities. The aim is to support ops in delivering budgeted sales, PBIT and margin as well as delivering agreed returns for clients.
• Delivering proactive 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, costs and managing relevant KPIs.
• Take ownership of the financial controls and processes for the operation which includes the weekly flash process, budget process, review of commercial initiatives, support of capex appraisals and emphasis on optimising working capital.

• Deliver analysis of key business reporting such as dashboards, month‑end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts, client requests and other ad‑hoc analysis to be discussed at monthly/weekly reviews.
• Populate monthly balance sheet documents for review, escalating key risks and opportunities.
• Be responsible, with the Venue GM, for overseeing the budgeting and forecasting process for the venue. Ensure there is a joined‑up and signed‑off process with the operational team.
• Assist in training finance/operational teams in the use of business reporting and KPIs to understand and improve their financial performance.
• Monitor initiative delivery plans, challenge operational teams and, where there is a risk to achievement, highlight to senior stakeholders.
• Present detailed information in a succinct and clear way, often to non‑finance people.
• Know the detail and be data‑numerate, comfortable working with data to make data‑driven decisions, and present core drivers/issues appropriately for the audience.
• Assess opportunities.

• GP %
• Labour to Sales ratio
• Unit margin %
• Labor % as we roll out new tech to make our venues more efficient.
• Pricing to consumers (and SPH), hospitality charges, and C &
  
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• Experience of partnering non‑finance professionals to support the delivery of financial information.
• Qualified Accountant or finalist (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) and a minimum of two years within a financial role.
• Experience of management accounting inclusive of accounting adjustments, producing reports/analysis to support commercial decision making.
• Analytical with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proficient in Excel Macros & VBA.
• Experience of SAP and E15/Power BI as analysis and reporting tools.
• Strong commercial acumen.

• Balance competing requirements, manage time and achieve tight deadlines.
• Commercially astute and quick to work through many back‑to‑back deadlines throughout the year.
• Attention to detail – ensuring the results and analysis presented are accurate and meaningful.
• Ability to adapt to changing environments and circumstances.

• Build relationships with stakeholders (in Compass and with clients, Ops and Finance) in the right way, engaging, interacting and challenging to achieve the right outcome for the business.
• Effective communicator with the ability to convey oral and written information concisely and logically at all levels – to both finance and non‑finance people.
• Challenge constructively.
• Work collaboratively and ethically.

• Compet…