Job Description:
About the Role Location Accountant - NEC, Birmingham | Full-Time / Permanent £36600 + excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more. As Location Accountant, you will business partner the venues General Manager and their Heads of Department, responsible for the financial support of the largest individual contract in the region. You will perform a high-profile role, developing skills in working collaboratively with the client, and internally across functions and other stakeholders. Through effective business partnering, the role will continually improve service levels, cost effectiveness and add value to commercial activities undertaken. Key Accountabilities PURPOSE: Commercial Support Business partnering with the GM and HOD’s ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities. The aim will be to support ops in delivering budgeted sales, PBIT and margin as well as delivering agreed returns for clients. Delivering pro-active financial analysis with summarised findings and recommendations to support decision making. This will involve making full use of the latest dashboards from E15 Insights and working collaboratively with them. Take responsibility for the financial controls and processes for the venue, which includes raising invoices, cash reporting, credit card reconciliation, reviewing the PO Log, event ETA’s, monthly R&A process, weekly flash process and budget process. PERFORMANCE Deliver analysis of key business reporting such as dashboards, month end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts and other ad-hoc analysis to be discussed at monthly/weekly reviews. Challenging operational teams and where there is a risk to achievement, highlighting to GM and FBP. Key metrics include GP%, Labour to Sales ratio and unit margin %. Assist in training of operational teams in the use of business reporting and KPIs to understand and improve their financial performance Populating monthly balance sheet document for review, escalating key risks and opportunities to GM & FBP Be responsible along with the GM for the overseeing of the budgeting and forecasting process for the venue. Attend client finance meetings when required – reporting on their client return and dealing with any issues within the contract. Be a part of future planning and strategic decision-making process PEOPLE: Relationship Management Working effectively as part of a team – both within finance and as part of the operational team Building relationships with key finance stakeholders Support the learning of finance apprentices within the team and share knowledge/best practice
