Finance Support Manager
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £38,000.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | Morley, England, LS27 0BZ |
| Company: | Baxterstorey |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1350180759 |
Summary
Title: Finance Support Manager
Location: North of England and Scotland
Reporting to: Head of Finance for North & Scotland
Essential: Working within the hospitality industry in finance
Salary: £35-38k plus car or car allowance
Are you Obsessed with Finance & Hospitality?! We hope so as we are recruiting for our finance team a finance support manager to work remotely within our North & Scotland business!
The role will include travel throughout the week to our wonderful locations to support and advise on various financial information including data, forecasting, tariff increases, budgets and general queries around the business.
Covering the North of England, Scotland and remote working!
Benefits:
- 33 Days holiday including bank holidays
- Plus your birthday off
- 3 volunteering days
- 3 days grandparent leave
- 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave
- Secondary carer leave
- Wedding/commitment day leave
- Free meals on shift
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
- Pension and life insurance
- Discounts available on our Perkbox app; high street shops, holidays & cinema
- Wellbeing hub
- Access to employee assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
BaxterStorey is the UK’s largest independent food services provider to Business and Industry, with a turnover of nearly £400m across the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe employing 7,000 staff. The Company is passionate about providing high quality, freshly prepared food sourced locally to each of its clients and is at the leading edge of innovation in the food services industry.
Our North and Scotland region has grown rapidly over the last few years with ambitions for further growth this year and in the years to come. We operate more than 90 locations in Scotland and a further 120 in the North of England across various business sectors. This role will report to the Head of Finance and support our North and Scotland Operations teams to manage all financial aspects and improve business performance.
Job Description
- Proactively partner with the Operations Team to explore ways to improve financial performance by providing insightful reporting, support and recommendations.
- Work with the Head of Finance to promote and build a strong financial control environment across all locations, ensuring location teams are complying with appropriate Company policies and implementing corrective measures where necessary.
- Support the monthly completion of trading accounts with operations managers.
- Produce period end variance analysis, review trading accounts and support period end review process with commentary and insightful reporting.
- Support Operations Team to produce accurate client and company forecasts and budgets.
- Carry out financial audits on site and advise on financial process best practise.
- Follow up on sites that fail financial health check audits with a visit and suitable support and advice.
- Provide financial training and support.
Qualifications
- Must be working in the hospitality industry in a similar position
- Studying or part qualified CIMA or equivalent
- Experience of working in a multi-location business within hospitality & catering
- Experience in financial training
- Commercial or retail finance experience
- A lively, outgoing personality with proven ability to build rapport with non-financial managers.
- A motivated, proactive and organised individual with a flexible approach to working hours.
- Commercial acumen
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent Excel skills
- A passion for delivering continuous improvement.
Additional Information
For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.
We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.
Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.
Join us, and be part of the food revolution!
BaxterStorey Values:
ALWAYS VISIONARY
We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.
WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE
We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.
CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE
We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.
FOREVER CONSCIOUS
We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.
Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.
BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.
Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.
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