Head of Finance

Job Introduction

Sodexo Live! have an exciting opportunity for a driven finance professional to join us as a Head of Finance.

In this key role, you will support the Directors in optimising financial performance and driving profitable organic growth of the Leisure and Cultural Destinations divisions.  You will deliver a first-class service by ensuring all Group Finance policies, processes and procedures are consistently followed and create a culture of continuous improvement across the team. The role will be both challenging and rewarding, as it will offer you the opportunity to make a significant positive impact and become part of the driving force behind the growth of our company.

We’re experience makers. And food fanatics. Our experiences are unique, and so are our people. Bring personality, your background and your desire for delighting others. In return we’ll give you all you need to thrive. Because at Sodexo Live! We’re so much more. Be part of something greater.

Our experiences are unique, and so are our people. Bring personality, your background and your desire for delighting others. In return we’ll give you all you need to thrive.

Role Responsibility

• Create a business partner relationship with all key stakeholders as well as the Directors, including clients and other Sodexo functions
• Creation of insightful, commercially focused reporting to aid strategic decision making
• Accurate, timely and frequent reporting of the financial performance of the contracts
• Management of the control environment
• Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for the divisions
• Lead the monthly review process to optimize divisional financial performance
• Establishing effective relationships with clients and operational heads of department to maximise influencing ability, attending client meetings as required
• Motivating and engaging the local finance teams and ensuring they are fully connected to other site-based departments
• Support retention / new bid work as required
• Deputise for the Finance Director, as required
• Support significant project work, including mobilization, acquisition, and investment appraisals

The Ideal Candidate

You will be a graduate with a professional accountancy qualification. You will have a track record of delivering results in a similar position and possess exceptional leadership skills. You must thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment and have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to form business partner relationships with all key stakeholders.

You will also:   

• Be resilient, determined and able to work flexibly and proactively
• Have a proven team management skills
• Be highly competent at planning and able to manage short and medium-term deadlines and competing priorities
• Be able to innovate to deliver sound information
• Possesses very good Excel skills and competent with PowerPoint and Word
• Experience of analysing information and quickly determining key issues of focus
• Able to work collaboratively and in a structured way to deliver outcomes.
• Have the ability to build relationships with colleagues from site level to Contract Leads and with finance teams in the UK and other countries.

Desirable

• Experience in retail, hospitality and live events industry (or relevant similar markets)
• Experience of consumer facing data analytics

Package Description

We offer a salary of between £80,000 and £90,000, a car allowance, a performance related bonus and a £1,300 benefits package

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