Finance Manager at Fulham Football Club

Job Introduction

Sodexo Live! Have a fantastic opportunity for a talented Finance Manager to join our team based from Craven Cottage - The Home of Fulham Football Club!

It's an exciting time to join us and be a part of the eleven-year contract as venue partner for FFC on its new Fulham Pier development, starting in July 2022.

Fulham Pier will become one of London’s leading leisure destinations on the banks of the Thames which will include restaurants, a Riverside Market, meetings and events spaces, bars and lounges, a basement entertainment venue, a boutique hotel and a spa experience

Sodexo Live! will deliver hospitality, retail and non-event day sales and catering at the iconic Craven Cottage

We are looking for a commercially focused, robust finance professional who is forward thinking and dynamic in their approach to finance. You will be focused on driving the business forward whilst delivering a rigorous control environment, providing insight driven reporting and acting as an effective business partner

You will ideally be a qualified accountant as a minimum and have an understanding of contract catering and be able to manage a finance team within a fast paced business.

When you join Sodexo Live! you truly belong, you will have the opportunity to thrive with career and learning opportunities available across the organisation - we cant wait for you to join us!

Role Responsibility

• Proactively work with the operational and sales teams as a business partner, analyse new business opportunities challenging often & ensuring ownership of costs and P&L.  
• Interrogation & understanding of historic results/data to project future trading patterns, trends and results. 
• Production of accurate and timely management accounts with evidence to support variances in expected results
• Accurate, timely and frequent reporting to all various stakeholder levels
• Demonstrate accountability & reconciliation of revenue / bank account / deposit v I.T. systems
• Along with operation leads, compile, understand, challenge and review P&L forecasts and budgets as required
• Establishing effective relationships with operational HOD’s to maximise influencing ability, ensure operarational teams have a robust understanding of their financial responsibility, and the impact their decisions have.
• Demonstrate an understanding of contract key drivers through improved reporting
• Conducting and conclude any audit activity and delivery of action plans,  management of the control environment (process & procedures)

The Ideal Candidate

• A commercially focused, robust finance professional who is forward thinking and dynamic in their approach to finance. 
• Experience of large stadia, major events or large volume trading
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills with experience in management accounts and reporting developments
• Desirable to have good working knowledge of SAP and Essbase or other large accounting systems
• Experience in operational and financial controls and continuous improvement of such
• Knowledge of a high-volume retail and cash environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and leadership of team members
• Clearly identifiable influencing skills
• Part or Fully Qualified accountant, or qualified by experience

Package Description

In return for your commitment and hard work, you will be rewarded with an attractive salary, plus access to our extensive benefits package, which includes:

• Contributory pension scheme of up to 6%
• Life assurance
• Performance-related annual bonus
• 23 days holiday (FTE) – including bank holidays – rising to 25 days after 3 years
• A buy and sell holiday scheme of up to 3 days (FTE)
• Volunteering days via our charity partner STOP HUNGER
• Numerous voluntary benefits, including dental care, gym discounts, retail / hospitality, and many more

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process