Job description

What you'll be doing:
Assistant Finance Manager

Up to £45,000 per annum

Monday to Friday - 1 day working from home

Aviva DigiCare+ – Employee Annual health check, Digital GP, Mental Health Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinion

Exclusive Benefits & Wellbeing site (Perks at Work)

Meals on duty

Free Parking

Employee Assistance Programme

Holiday Purchase scheme

Due to internal progression we have an exciting opportunity to join our team within our Chartwells state school sector at Compass Group UK & Ireland, this role will be based at our head office in Birmingham with flexibility to work from home 1 day per week.

As an Assistant Finance Manager in Compass, you will perform an influential and high-profile role delivering financial and commercial support to the Chartwells business sector. Through effective business partnering, the role will continually improve service levels, cost effectiveness and add value to commercial activities undertaken.

More about the role:
You will provide commercial acumen to drive efficiency, profitability and customer satisfaction in addition to:

Business partnering - driving contractual performance and the understanding of key stakeholders (finance and non-finance)

Provide commercial insight and analysis to the Account Director to support operational decision making

Manage and develop junior finance team members

Ownership of the financial results and reporting of performance including budgeting and forecasting processes

Responsible for financial control and governance processes including contractual compliance and adherence to Compass financial policies

Attend and present financial results and insight at client and internal meetings

Who you are:
A Part Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with varied experience in accounting roles

Experience of business partnering senior stakeholders with the ability to challenge, influence and persuade at all levels

High numeric and analytical skills and attention to detail

Comfortable developing and working with complex spreadsheets

Demonstrable commercial finance experience of improving business results and adding value

Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically

Ability to analyse, evaluate and present information in a clear and concise way

​​ Desirable:
Experience of operating within a multi-site, multi-contract organization

Good working knowledge of SAP & Cognos