Job Ref: 213291267

Date: 2021-03-04 09:32:06

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Welcome Break is one of the largest motorway service operators in the UK and has led the revolution in changing the motorway service sector.

We've been around for 60 years and are now in locations across the UK. Our 5,000+ strong team strive to proudly and passionately offer our customers' world class hospitality and retail brands such as Waitrose, Starbucks, Subway, KFC, Ramada, Days Inn and Burger King to name a few in a friendly and relaxing environment.

Our business is about people, the 80 million people who visit our sites each year and the teams who make the business the success it is. Every one deserves to get a warm welcome and enjoyable break with the very best service, facilities, food and drinks we can provide.

Providing customers with a welcome break is really important to us. Every day here is as challenging as it is enjoyable, as rewarding as it is fun. We believe that the same should be true once our working day is over, so we do everything we can to make sure our teams can get their work/life balance just right!

Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed at Welcome Break. To make sure that those achievements are recognised, we have many recognition schemes, most of which are peer to peer recognition. What's more, we work hard to build a culture of openness, listening to customers and our own people so we can identify opportunities to improve service, innovation and engagement.

Finance Analyst. Made at Welcome Break
Newport Pagnell, MK16 9EZ
Full time permanent position
Upto £40,000 per annum depending on experience.
Fantastic benefits & discounts, free parking & great career opportunities

Welcome Break are looking to recruit a full-time Finance Analyst, working as part of the Finance team at head office. The role is responsible for reporting and analysis of Overheads and Head Office costs. This includes managing the month-end close for all Overhead accounts (accruals, P&L queries, working with 3rd party data providers), and monthly reporting of costs.

The role will report into the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis and work closely with the Directors and Heads of Departments to provide financial insight and guidance to help them to control their budgets. You will become the Head Office contact for all Overhead cost analysis and support the annual budget setting process.

You will also support the Head of Trading & Supply Chain and Commercial Director on contract renewals, ad-hoc projects and process improvement. The role also has responsibility for Head Office costs month-end management reporting and Budgeting.

Responsibilities / Tasks

* Co-ordination of the month end process including overhead cost analysis and accruals / prepayments to ensure the integrity of month end results.
* Assist with the monthly management reporting of Overheads and Head Office costs (Actuals, Budgets and Forecasts) including the analysis of cost centres to understand the financial performance compared to budget, and present to Department Managers on a monthly basis for financial visibility and cost control.
* Create and collect the costings for utilities and other overhead cost types (repairs, contract maintenance, waste & recycling, hire of equipment, legal costs, professional & consulting, cash in transit, cash processing etc) to ensure accurate costs are captured and forecast. This will also include the raising of purchase orders and approval of invoices for these cost lines.
* Ensure on cost reimbursable contracts that the evidence is substantiated to facilitate full collection of recoveries (recharge of utility costs to tenants)
* Be the head office finance point of contact for overhead queries
* Coding and entering purchase ledger invoices and dealing with any invoice queries by liaising with internal management and suppliers
* To support the FP&A team with the annual budgeting process and quarterly forecasting process
* Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations to support quarterly review exercises including tracking of opportunities and risks for departmental budgets and site overheads.
* Business partnering with relevant heads of departments to provide historical cost analysis and support managing to budget
* To identify process improvements and implement solutions, enabling better information and insight
* To support the Head of Trading & Supply Chain & Supply Chain Manager in validating impact of cost saving initiatives (business cases / financial models etc)
* Development of monthly management packs
* Support year-end External audit and periodic internal audit processes
* Ad hoc business analysis

Qualifications, knowledge, and experience
* Part-Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA) (minimum requirement)
* Ability to take on responsibility / ownership for processes and actively drive towards results
* Business partnering experience, confident to communicate to all levels and explain data to non-finance professionals
* Proven examples of working on own initiative
* Advanced Knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint

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