Job Introduction
Assistant Finance Manager– NEC, Birmingham| Full-Time / Permanent
£40k+ excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more.
This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted partner to the General Manager and Heads of Department across the entire warehouse operation. You'll take on a visible and influential position, building strong relationships with both client-side teams and internal stakeholders, while driving collaboration across the business. Through effective partnering and commercial insight, you'll play a key role in enhancing service delivery, improving cost efficiency, and supporting the contract through an exciting mobilisation phase, helping to shape its future success from the outset.
We are Levy
We are a visionary venue partner. We design and deliver bespoke guest experiences that prioritise people and the planet.
Trusted by some of the world’s most iconic stadiums, entertainment venues, and major events – including Wimbledon, Twickenham, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Edgbaston, the SEC and Excel London – we bring experiences to life with passion and precision.
Our mission is to succeed the right way. From pioneering tech and seamless operations to show-stopping menus and exceptional service, we use insight and innovation to understand guests, improve the customer journey, reduce environmental impact, and support local communities.
We are a passionate, diverse team of venue specialists dedicated to making the planet better for future generations.
Assistant Finance Manager– The role
PURPOSE: Commercial Support
- Effective business partnering with the onsite operations team, ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities. The aim will be to support ops in delivering budgeted sales, PBIT and margin as well as delivering agreed returns for clients.
- Delivering pro-active financial analysis with summarised findings and recommendations to support decision making. This will involve making full use of the latest dashboards from E15 Insights covering sales, costs and managing relevant KPI’s.
- Take ownership for the financial controls and processes for the operation which in includes weekly flash process, budget process, review of commercial initiatives, support of capex appraisals and emphasis on optimising working capital
PERFORMANCE
- Deliver analysis of key business reporting such as dashboards, month end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts, client requests and other ad-hoc analysis to be discussed at monthly/weekly reviews.
- Populating monthly balance sheet document for review, escalating key risks and opportunities.
- Be responsible along with the Venue GM for the overseeing of the budgeting and forecasting process for the venue. Ensuring there is joined up and signed off process with the operational team
- Take ownership for the financial controls and processes for the operation which in includes weekly flash process, budget process, review of commercial initiatives, support of capex appraisals and emphasis on optimising working capital
- Assist in training of finance/operational teams in the use of business reporting and KPIs to understand and improve their financial performance
- Monitoring initiative delivery plans, challenging operational teams and where there is a risk to achievement, highlighting to senior stakeholders.
Key metrics include GP%, Labour to Sales ratio and unit margin %.
- we have developed dashboards with E15 insights to help standardise and simplify reporting. You must use these and champion them within the business
- one of the key areas currently is labour % as we roll out new tech to make our venues more efficient.
- pricing is also vital – with inflation still an ongoing risk, we need to monitor our pricing to consumers (and SPH), hospitality charges and C&E
What we’re looking for
- Experience of partnering non-finance professionals to support the delivery of financial information
- Qualified Accountant or finalist (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) and a minimum of two years within a financial role.
- Experience of management accounting inclusive of accounting adjustments, producing reports/analysis to support commercial decision making
- Analytical and with a high level of attention to detail
- Proficient in Excel Macros & VBA
- Experience of SAP and E15 / Power BI as analysis and reporting tools
- Strong commercial acumen
Accountability & resilience
- There are a lot of competing requirements – need to be able to balance time and achieve tight deadlines
- Commercially astute and quick to work through the many deadlines required back-to-back through the year
- Attention to detail - ensuring the results and analysis presented is accurate and meaningful
- Ability to adapt to changing environments & circumstances
Leadership Behaviours
- Able to build relationships with stakeholders (in Compass and with clients, Ops and Finance) in the right way - to be able to engage, interact and challenge in a way that gets the right outcome for the business
- An effective communicator with the ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically at all levels – to both finance and non-finance people
- Challenges constructively
- Works collaboratively and ethically
Presenting detailed information in a succinct and clear way – often to non-finance people
- Know the detail
- Be data numerate and comfortable working with data to make data driven decisions – we have moved to data warehouses and dashboards as the way to drive the business. The individual must be comfortable with this.
- Understand the core drivers/issues and present in a way that is succinct and appropriate for the audience
- Assess opportunities
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and full company benefits
- 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, your birthday off, and a holiday purchase scheme
- Healthcare & wellbeing: AvivaDigicare, Medicash(dental, optical, therapy treatments)
- Mental health support: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Family benefits:Enhanced maternity, paternity, andadoptionleave.2 days’ additional leave after returning from maternity leave, day off for your baby’s first birthday, enhanced family leave
- Perks & discounts: Shopping, entertainment, and travel discounts, 20% off Nuffield Health and 10% offPureGymmemberships
- Financial wellbeing: Pension scheme, Life Assurance, preferred rates on salary finance products
- Development opportunities: Professional subscriptions, on going training and structured career pathways
- Meals on duty included
Why Join Us?
Levy UK & Ireland is part of Compass Group, the world’s largest catering company, and a vibrant leader in hospitality.
We believe in celebrating individuality and building inclusive teams where everyone feels they belong. Our diverse team fuels creativity, innovation, and excellence.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join us in creating a supportive, empowering workplace where everyone can thrive.
Together, we create unforgettable experiences – and shape the future of hospitality.