Managed Pubs Finance Manager (maternity cover) - ref. d18795403
Are you a proactive finance professional ready to make a meaningful impact?
We are seeking a skilled and dynamic Finance Manager to join our team for a maternity cover role. In this pivotal role, you will oversee the financial operations of our Managed Pub Estate, delivering strategic financial insight and analytical support to key stakeholders, including Executive Directors, Operation Managers and General Managers.
Leading a team of four, you will ensure accurate reporting, analysis, and financial control that drive informed decision-making, enhance overall business performance, and support commercial success.
What's in it for you?- Competitive salary
- Company laptop and mobile phone (and any other equipment) to assist with the proper performance of your duties
- 25% discount on food at Shepherd Neame Managed Houses
- 25% discount on overnight Managed House Hotel bookings
- Up to 40% discount on select purchases from the Visitor Centre Shop at Faversham
- Sheps Hut discounts and special offers hub on 100s of high street shops and services to help your monthly pay go even further
- Financial wellbeing app and early wage withdrawal scheme
- Company Pension plan
- Share Incentive Plan
- Access to a Mental Wellbeing Platform
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Working Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week. 08:30 - 17:00, Monday to Friday with 1 hour lunch (unpaid).
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsibility and review of all budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning activities, and subsequent reporting packs
- Finalise and review timely, monthly management accounts, for all relevant channels of trade. To be submitted alongside insightful, engaging commentary and analysis including benchmarking against budget, recent periods, key performance metrics and competitor results
- Provide objective, financial control in new project implementations
- Take initiative in implementing process and control improvements.
- Responsibility for accuracy and integrity of Balance Sheet accounts for all relevant channels of trade. Provide full quarterly reviews, with key Balance Sheet accounts reconciled and presented monthly
- Provide support to the wider finance team at all times and auditors at key reporting periods
- Preparation of investment appraisals and post-investment reviews
- Responsibility for any relevant commercial analysis that may arise and any subsequent reporting
- Drive growth, identify efficiencies and improvement alongside department heads and in line with strategic objectives
- Interpret large volumes of data and provide value-adding, financial insight to a varied list of stakeholders
- Identify key risks and opportunities to performance and contribute to identifying mitigating actions where appropriate
- Provide commercial, analytical support to key decision-makers across the business
- Be the main point of contact within the finance team for the managed pub's operational management. Attend, present and support leading regular operational performance reviews at the brewery and on-site at pub locations
- Provide and support any ad hoc external reporting requirements.
The ideal candidate:
- Qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA, AAT.
- Relevant experience in an FP&A role.
- Understanding and experience of Retail and Manufacturing industries beneficial.
- Experience of using a computerised accounting package, SAP advantageous.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate complex information to non-financial colleagues.
- Ability to perform well in a team environment.
- Ability to build and develop working relationships with key stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Show initiative and take on full responsibility for the role.
- Driven, engaging and motivated individual with a business partner focus
Shepherd Neame may be Britain’s oldest brewer but our approach is anything but old-fashioned. We are an authentic, independent business, yet flexible and agile, and that has enabled us to survive and thrive based on the following Sheps Skills:
- Working Together
- Pride and Passion
- Authenticity
- Sheps Spirit
Britain’s oldest brewer, Shepherd Neame, has been based in the market town of Faversham, Kent for over 300 years. An independent family business, we boast an award-winning visitor centre and more than 300 pubs and hotels throughout London and the South East, from the historic heart of the City to the Kent coastline.
We employ around 1,500 team members across our pub estate and more than 270 at our Brewery and Support Office.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion matter to Shepherd Neame. If you think you would be suited this role we would welcome your application regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all employees feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential.