Assistant Finance Manager

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Salary: Up to £47,000 per annum

Working Hours: Monday to Friday - 1 day working from home

Benefits:

1. Aviva DigiCare+ – Employee Annual health check
2. Digital GP
3. Mental Health Consultations
4. Nutritional Consultations
5. Second Medical Opinion
6. Exclusive Benefits & Wellbeing site (Perks at Work)
7. Meals on duty
8. Free Parking
9. Employee Assistance Programme
10. Holiday Purchase scheme

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team within our Chartwells 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.

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

1. Business partnering - driving contractual performance and the understanding of key stakeholders (finance and non-finance)
2. Provide commercial insight and analysis to the Account Director to support operational decision making
3. Manage and develop junior finance team members
4. Ownership of the financial results and reporting of performance including budgeting and forecasting processes
5. Responsible for financial control and governance processes including contractual compliance and adherence to Compass financial policies
6. Attend and present financial results and insight at client and internal meetings

The successful Assistant Finance Manager will be:

• A Part Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with varied experience in accounting roles
• Experienced in 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

About Us:

Part of Compass Group UK&I, Chartwells is the leading provider of catering and support services to the education sector. For over a quarter of a century, Chartwells has been focusing on helping those in education to build strong bodies, sharp minds and lead long healthy lives. Every week, Chartwells serves millions of nutritious and delicious meals to pupils and students in primary and secondary schools, academies, independent schools, colleges, and universities across the UK.

Chartwells is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all employees to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to successfully completing pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and a Children's Barred List check. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and we ask applicants to declare all previous convictions and cautions in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Job Reference: com/1305/128200/52639796/SU

Compass Group UK&I wants everyone in our business to feel able to be themselves at work and to have an equal opportunity to progress their career. We want to create a culture where we respect and embrace everyone's talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities. Where our colleagues feel valued, can reach their full potential, and thrive - Diversity is Our Strength!