Job Introduction
Location Accountant - NEC, Birmingham | Full-Time / Permanent
£36600 + excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more.
As Location Accountant, you will business partner the venues General Manager and their Heads of Department, responsible for the financial support of the largest individual contract in the region. You will perform a high-profile role, developing skills in working collaboratively with the client, and internally across functions and other stakeholders. Through effective business partnering, the role will continually improve service levels, cost effectiveness and add value to commercial activities undertaken. |
Key Accountabilities |
PURPOSE: Commercial Support
PERFORMANCE
PEOPLE: Relationship Management
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Candidate Requirements: Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience |
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- Experience of business partnering non-finance professionals to support the delivery of sound financial information
- Part-qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) preferred
- 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
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
Relationship building
- 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
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
Desirable:
- Experience of SAP and E15 / Power BI as analysis and reporting tools
Benefits:
- Medicash - Healthcare benefits, including dental, optical and therapy treatments (includes up to 4 dependent children)
- Aviva Digicare - Free annual healthcare check
- Exclusive Benefits & Wellbeing site (Perks at Work)
- Entertainment discounts - up to 55% off cinema tickets
- Health & Wellbeing discounts - Discounts for Nuffield Health (20%) and Pure Gym (10%)
- Travel discounts - Discounts with holiday companies such as TUI and Expedia
- Shopping discounts - Save up to 15% at high street and online stores by purchasing Shopping Cards
- Meals on duty
- Vodaphone discounts
- Pension scheme and Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 23 days + BH's and additional day off for your birthday
- 2 days additional leave, following return from Maternity leave during first year back
- Competitive and supportive family benefits
- Day off for baby's first birthday
- Holiday purchase scheme
- On-going training & development and career pathways
- Professional subscriptions paid
- Financial wellbeing programme and preferred rates on salary finance products
As part of Compass you'll help to feed people, fuel progress and forge connections in around 6,000 venues. Join us to grow your career with the industry leader, and get competitive pay, great perks and unrivalled opportunities for learning and development, at one of the UK's biggest businesses.
Job Reference: com/1003/43350001/52795346/SU #Levy UK
Compass Group UK&I is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength!