Financial Controller | Edinburgh | Hospitality | up to £50,000

We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented Financial Controller to join our team and continue to provide outstanding financial support and success to this client’s operations. 

To be considered for this role you will need to have strong financial acumen, be analytical in mindset, and have strong reporting skills.
Knowledge of contract catering would be beneficial but not essential.

The prime objective of the role is to provide commercial analysis and insight, financial reporting, and forecasting, and to influence and challenge business decisions to maximise business profit.

• Business partnering with the onsite operations team.
• Consistent weekly reporting of sales, gross profit, labour, and overheads for each profit centre.
• Insights on high/low margin products & recommendation to improve profitability.
• Focus around purchasing compliance, and identifying opportunities to improve profitability (switch & saves of products/suppliers etc).
• Assess overall finance compliance (cash control, till readings vs.
  insight etc) and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Provide decision support to initiatives and projects supporting delivery of targets through insightful analysis and idea generation.
• Providing interpretation and challenge to current & future trading plans.
• Prepare the financial planning and budgeting process within timescales.
• Support colleagues across the business in developing financial awareness.

The ideal candidate

• Strong analytical capabilities coupled with successful business partnering.
• High attention to detail.
• Ability to work on own initiative, effectively prioritise and manage workload, meeting tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills with people at all levels in the organisation
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills – including pivot tables, formulae, lookup tables, 'if' statements & comfortable with multi-workbook reporting..

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity do apply today to begin a chat with Fabian @ COREcruitment.com

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