AddressAre you a process driven individual with a high level of attention to detail who is looking for a varied role on a part time basis? If so then we have a fantastic opportunity for you for a Capital Planning Assistant working within our well established Capital Planning team on a permanent basis. Please note this role is available on a 20 hour per week basis – days worked to be confirmed at interview.
This varied opportunity for a Capital Planning Assistant requires an individual to maintain investment approval control systems in order to monitor expansionary and maintenance capital expenditure budgets. You will also provide a comprehensive data extraction and administrative service in order to assist virtual teams in controlling expansionary and maintenance capital expenditure budgets, alongside providing a comprehensive data extraction service to assist with Capital Planning.
As Capital Planning Assistant, you will report into our Investment Performance Manager in an office flexible role, on a 20 hour per week basis. Joining a focused and innovative wider Capital Planning team, working at the home of hospitality (our head office), you may not be serving our guests, but your support will put smiles on our guests and teams faces. This is the place where we get creative, train our teams and crunch our numbers. We’re all about having fun and creating moments to remember across the nation, our head office is no different.
You’ll be well rewarded…
- Private medical plan- to help keep you safe and secure
- Annual Bonus Scheme – we are all about rewarding hard work
- Love eating out? You'll love it even more with a massive 33% discount across all our brands, so whether its date night at Miller & Carter or family roast at Toby Carvery we’ve got you covered. What’s more, you can also choose FIVE of your nearest and dearest and sign them up to 20% family and friend’s discount.
On top of all this, we offer a pension, 26 days Holiday (FTE) friends & family discount, high-street shopping discounts; and we even give you free shares! There's also a free employee helpline- to support you with whatever life throws at you.
The Opportunity – Capital Planning Assistant Role;
Your role and responsibilities will be challenging and varied, including the following: -
- Control MAB capital spends against approval spends:
- Maintain Portfolio Development Committee (PDC), Capital Approval Meeting and other meeting approval information, ensuring approvals are stored in an organised and accessible manner.
- Ensure relevant documentation is appropriately signed in line with the approved delegated authority matrix.
- Ensure timely loading of capital project budgets and approvals on E1, after relevant minutes have been verified.
- Ensure timely loading of P&L approvals on E1, after relevant minutes have been verified as correct.
- Regular maintenance of E1 projects for ‘other’ capital
- Ensure projects are closed down on E1 within the policy guidelines set and highlight any non compliance to these to the Investment Performance Manager.
- Maintenance of the approved project within the Capital Appraisal Model
- Assist in the production of the Project Cost Monitors
- Produce standard data extracts for capital stakeholders to enable control of budgets
- Progress Reporting
- Produce new openings report for the Weekly Investment Monitor
- Assist in the preparation of the Capital Progress Report for PDC.
- Assist Investment Performance Manager in preparation of the annual Capital Plan.
- Investment Reporting
- Assist with standard investment reporting data extracts to monitor the impact of MAB’s expansionary and maintenance capital.
- Regular housekeeping of project data including various exception reports.
- To provide holiday cover for team members of Capital Planning section.
- To provide a financial administrative and data extraction service as required by the Director of Capital Planning
- Undertake ad-hoc investigations into specific business issues at the request of the Director of Capital Planning or the Investment Performance Manager.
- To obtain detailed knowledge and understanding of the core information systems to enable efficient and accurate access to the data required by the department.
Just like our brands, our teams are diverse. What we’d like to see from you: -
- At least 3 years of Financial / Administrative / Data Extraction experience preferably with experience in Construction / Retail environments
- Strong Attention to detail
- Confidentiality and integrity at all times
- Strong Excel skills
- Good written communication skills
- Strong organisational skills with ability to work to deadlines when required
- Clear and professional verbal and non-verbal communication
