Management Accountant Lead

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

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…

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.

• 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

• 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