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Nando’s is on a journey to Create Lasting Happiness, making a difference to the lives of our people, our customers, and the communities we work in. Originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa, we pride ourselves on creating memorable experiences for everyone involved in Nando’s: from our employees, communities, founders, and suppliers, but most importantly, our customers.
Overall Ambition:
* Reporting into the Finance Department and uniquely placed to be a strong link between the Finance Transformation team, Reporting team and Regional Business partners.
* To be a model builder and custodian of the financial information held in the Anaplan Budgeting and Forecasting system.
* To build dashboards and functionality within the system to improve financial reporting, including monthly re-forecasting, weekly Sales and LFL reporting, and periodic full P&L production.
* To understand the Vena Budgeting system and deliver Group deliverables regarding quarterly Forecasting across the P&L balance sheet and Cashflow.
* To work with the Finance Reporting and business Partnering teams to provide accurate and relevant financial information delivered in a timely manner. This involves weekly, periodic, and half-yearly commercial reports focused on key trading metrics and P&L’s.
* To work with the Finance transformation team to review the current use of finance systems to streamline and reduce manual intervention.
* To identify problems, needs, and opportunities for systems and process improvement, specifically regarding operations reporting and the production of restaurant P&Ls.
* This role requires a Nandoca who can move between high-level problem-analysis (“thinking”) and the practical delivery of outputs in a clear and concise fashion (“doing”).
* Support the Planning manager in the Budgeting and Forecasting process to deliver a robust and commercially sound short- and long-term Plan.
* To manage the monthly restaurant reforecasting process within Anaplan alongside the Finance Business partners.
* To assist in the production of Company sales budgets and forecasts, ensuring the team considers all inputs from business stakeholders and that all relevant information is recorded in the Anaplan finance budgeting system.
* Own certain line items on the P&L and become the expert in that area to produce robust data and advise on accounting methods.
* Customer curiosity: Provide expert technical support to the Finance team to manage financial processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reporting, providing input and advice on the use of Anaplan.
* Understand and improve reporting on key areas such as LFL reporting. Become the lead on complex deliverables such as the business incentive scheme.
* Research expert: Proactively support and encourage users to achieve the most useful output from financial systems. Train and support finance teams in the use of Anaplan and reconcile data between systems to ensure financial reporting reflects “one version of the truth.”
* Restless enthusiasm: Assist the team with monthly P&L Flash and dashboard reporting. Review current management reporting outputs with the team and recommend improvements, make changes, and rebuild reports using learned system knowledge.
* Shaping the future: Become an Expert user of the Anaplan Budgeting and Forecasting system. Identify where the system can eliminate or minimize manual processes and deliver efficiencies in report production and financial analysis.
* Use accounting expertise along with system knowledge to ensure robust production and continuous process improvement of all financial statements. Fortify communication with Group and drive enhancements to regular submissions across periodic reporting and business Planning.
Key Stakeholders:
This role will touch into many different parts of the business, including:
* All UK Finance teams.
* Group Finance
* Property
* Central cost areas
The candidate should possess / be:
* A strong desire to become the expert in systems in the Finance space.
* A professional accounting qualification – Preferably CIMA, ACA or ACCA Qualified with a minimum of 1 year’s post-qualification experience.
* Multi-site Experience in Hospitality or Retail is not necessary but would be an advantage.
* Prior systems experience or work within a systems change project would be beneficial.
* A good knowledge of producing reports, reconciliations, P&L’s, and various other financial documents.
* Self-motivated with exemplary organisational skills, able to multi-task and manage their own work.
* Effective communication skills, written and verbal.
* Competent in dealing with internal and external customers with the ability to be a role model within the finance department.
* Ability to explain and interpret financial information.
* Willingness to learn, along with the ability to make improvements to routine processes.
* Adaptable in a continuously evolving environment.
Our candidate should be looking for:
* A culture with strong purpose & values, intent on contributing to / driving positive cultural and societal change.
* An environment that is relaxed and informal, whilst highly driven and ambitious.
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